Tapes Suggest S.C. Fire Began Behind Store
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CHARLESTON, S.C., June 21 -- Passing motorists and a store worker frantically called authorities about a fire behind a furniture store the night that nine firefighters died inside, according to 911 tapes and transcripts released Thursday. An employee said the area was where workers took smoking b...
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Federal agents joined the search for evidence Wednesday in brush-covered Orange County hills where an arsonist is believed to have ignited one of the wildfires devastating Southern California.
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A fire which caused disruption to flights at Glasgow Airport may have been started deliberately, say police.
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Firefighters weren't sure what was causing the smoke rising from a former discount store in this Baltimore suburb. The place had been abandoned for years, the interior stripped to the walls.
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A candle in an apartment without electricity was believed to have caused one of the city's deadliest and most heartbreaking fires in years, a blaze Sunday that killed six children ages 3 to 14, some of whom screamed "we're burning" as neighbors watched helplessly.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  May 25--GULFPORT -- A section of Bayou View Apartments on Jody Nelson Drive were evacuated briefly around 12:45 p.m. as a fire destroyed the kitchen and living room of one residence.
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Firefighters bring a major fire at a business in the Dock Street area of Strabane under control.
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Investigators have determined that the downtown high-rise fire that raged for 5 1/2 hours earlier this month was caused by an electrical malfunction.
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By Hurst Laviana and Stan Finger, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Mar. 7--A faulty transformer is being blamed for a windswept fire that burned through a west Wichita neighborhood Tuesday as firefighters across the state were forced to cope with a spate of grass and brush fires.
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By Robert Crowe, Houston Chronicle  Dec. 19--Four people were taken to hospitals after a 55-gallon drum of sulfuric acid exploded Monday night at a southeast Houston chemical plant.   The fire started about 8:20 p.m. at SET Environmental Inc., 5738 Cheswood.
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By Gwen Break, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  May 26--The South Walton Fire District issued a press release early May 24 advising residents that the heavy smoke in the area was from a fi re approximately 250 miles to the east.
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An inferno raced through a Charleston, South Carolina, furniture warehouse collapsing its roof and killing nine firefighters in a tragedy that the city's mayor described as "difficult to fathom." "They lost their lives fighting for the safety of our citizens," Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. said.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Dec. 12--From her back bedroom, Gloria Morales first noticed a smoky odor early Monday. By the time she got to the front of her main floor apartment at 1320 7th Ave., she saw the flames.
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The city planned Wednesday to release hours of emergency calls from Sept. 11, 2001, after Fire Department officials said they had discovered hundreds of internal recordings made by firefighters who went to rescue people from the burning twin towers.
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In the wake of a Charleston, S.C., blaze that claimed nine lives, a community struggles to make sense of its loss.
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CHARLESTON, South Carolina  - Nine firefighters died battling a blaze that raced through a furniture store and warehouse in Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday night, triggering a rolling ball of smoke and flames that destroyed the roof and pelted onlookers with hot ash.
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Police are investigating two small  fires at a southern California branch of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  that led to 500 people being evacuated from the smoke-filled  store on Wednesday.