Daley praises response to high-rise fire
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CHICAGO | Mayor Richard Daley on Tuesday praised the Fire Department&#39;s response to a stubborn fire at a historic downtown high-rise, hailing a coordinated response that differed in marked ways from a year-ago fire that left six dead.
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A stubborn fire raged for 5 1/2 hours on the 29th floor of a historic downtown skyscraper, shooting flames from windows and sending at least 37 people to hospitals, most of them firefighters who suffered smoke inhalation.
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By Lily Gordon, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Dec. 8--Tiffany and Norman Washington of Columbus sat hopelessly amazed Wednesday night as they watched their apartment go up in flames.
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Large pair of knickers saves the day when fire breaks out in
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A fire raged for more than 5 hours late Monday night in a downtown high-rise building in Chicago, injuring 37 people, most of them firefighters, local fire department officials said.
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A small fire broke out Friday high up in the Ostankino television tower, Europe's tallest freestanding structure, but was extinguished within an hour and no casualties were reported, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.
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A rapidly moving, "zero-percent-contained" wildfire rampaging through the plush suburbs of Malibu could have meant disaster for Pepperdine University's data center, but CIO Timothy Chester credits a solid contingency plan (and a wall of firefighters) for averting catastrophe.
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- CHICAGO -- Chicagoâs Fire Commissioner described as âheroicâ the effort of firefighters who battled Monday nightâs six-alarm fire at the LaSalle Bank Building in the Loop.
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By Kim MinughOn the third day of a controlled burn in Nevada County, flames devoured the dry underbrush with an ease that both satisfied and unsettled Battalion Chief Rob Paulus.
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A fire that damaged Geneva's largest synagogue was set deliberately, according to results of an investigation announced Friday.
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CHICAGO - Lessons learned in a deadly 2003 Chicago high-rise fire may have saved lives this week when a fire broke out on the 29th floor of a downtown skyscraper, fire officials said Tuesday.
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As firefighters searched for survivors after the Sept. 11 attacks, heat from the World Trade Center&#039;s smoldering ruins burned the soles off their boots. They needed new ones every few hours, and Chris Christopherson made sure they got them.
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The historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building next door to the White House caught fire this morning, and D.C. firefighters responded en masse to fight the blaze.
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A NEW York fireman involved in the 9/11 rescue effort today told of his ordeal on board a plane diverted to the UK in a bomb alert.
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Mount St. Helens's small explosion, predicted for several days and posing no imminent danger to people in the region, was greeted with jaw-dropping delight by many.
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Robert Beddia, who died in a blaze at the Deutsche Bank skyscraper on Aug. 18, stood out as one of only 502 firefighters over 50 on a force of more than 9,000.
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Pedestrians pause at a LaSalle St. intersection during the morning rush hour Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004, as a Chicago Fire Department vehicle enters barricades near the scene of Monday night&#39;s high-rise fire that injured at least 37 people in Chicago.