Rescuers unable to save children trapped in Ohio apartment fire; 7 ...
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Joe Jaramillo climbed the staircase with smoke searing his eyes and the cries of trapped children ringing in his ears. But he couldn&#39;t get any closer.
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At least seven people have been killed and 10 injured in a fire at a warehouse in South Korea.
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More than a dozen firefighters who rushed into the burning furniture superstore knew &#151; or thought they knew &#151; two things: employees were trapped inside and the blaze was small enough to control.
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Investigators combed through an apartment complex early Saturday, trying to determine what caused a fire that killed two people, injured 18 others and forced rescuers to pull trapped residents from balconies.
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Kamil Kaplan faced a horrifying decision as flames engulfed his apartment building: Does he drop his 9-month-old nephew four stories to a policeman or hope the baby boy survives the suffocating smoke?
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By Gregory Smith; Journal Staff Writer  By Gregory Smith Journal Staff Writer and Steve Peoples projo.com staff writer   * * *    Seven people are forced from their apartments on Chalkstone Avenue yesterday, and a blaze destroys R. Teto Motors in Olneyville.
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Two children and two women were killed early Monday in a fire at an apartment complex in suburban Detroit.
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Â· State accused of bungling as flames claim 57 lives Â· Prime minister admits local forces cannot cope
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Hospital staff said ambulances had been unable to go out as the city shook to explosions. Later on. Saturday they collected two dead and seven wounded civilians, among them women and children.
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Westport, CT (December 21, 2004) - Save the Children USA reports that its sister agency, Save the Children/UK, announced that it is unable to continue their humanitarian operations in North and South Darfur due to the tragic deaths of four staff members
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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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A fire at a mental health hospital in Siberia killed eight people a day after a fire at a Moscow drug treatment facility killed 45 women. Moscow fire officials said the staff at the rehabilitation facility did not call the fire department fast enough and did not do enough to evacuate patients. The officials said windows and a fire exit were blocked by metal grills, and another exit was hidden by smoke.
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WESTMINSTER, Colo. - Santa must have a trick. A man who was locked out of his house in this Denver suburb tried to get in by sliding down the chimney early Friday, but he got stuck and had to be rescued, authorities said.
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A 77-year-old mother of a firefighter saved her home by dousing it with buckets of water. A man battled flames threatening his hotel with wet towels. With any and all means, villagers and volunteers fought the flames that ravaged southern Greece for a week and claimed 64 lives.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Rescuers who saved a toddler  buried for four days by Japan's deadliest earthquake in a  decade were unable to pull off a second miracle for his sister  on Thursday, but some small signs of normal life returned to  the quake-hit region.
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SEVEN Swiss firefighters were presumed dead yesterday after they were trapped under the collapsed roof of a burning underground car park.
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By The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb. 20--A pan of cooking oil that overheated on a kitchen stove ignited a fire in a duplex apartment Monday evening in Battle Ground.   Fire District 11 was called to 303 S.E. Third St. at 5:54 p.m., said firefighter-paramedic Todd McCabe.