24 Firefighters Killed in '06 Wildfires
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By JEFF BARNARD  GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Two dozen firefighters died last year battling wildfires across the nation, a number that has increased in the face of drier summers and increased job pressures.
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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.
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A fire killed four people early Sunday in a two-story house where about a dozen people lived in makeshift rooms, some of them bedding down in closets, the state fire marshal said.
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EL CAJON, Calif., Oct. 25 -- Continued weakening of the seasonal Santa Ana winds allowed firefighters to step up their battle against devastating wildfires Thursday, though thousands of homes remained under threat from advancing flames and the death toll rose with the discovery of six bodies.
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An early morning house fire killed two young children Tuesday, fire officials said.
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Authorities identified the second and third people to have died in the fires.
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Warwickshire's chief fire officer remembers the four firefighters killed in a warehouse blaze.
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Six children, including two   3-year-olds, died in a fire started by candles that family   members used because their apartment lacked electricity, fire   commissioner Raymond Orozco said on Sunday.
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Nine US firefighters die in a blaze in a furniture warehouse in Charleston, South Carolina, officials say.
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Firefighters were in the final stage Sunday of surrounding one of the biggest blazes in state history, which has burned 254 square miles of brush and timber since erupting Labor Day.
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Three firefighters died Wednesday while battling a blaze in a forest on the Greek island of Crete, while the government warned that hot weather could cause more blazes.
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Three city firefighters were killed while responding to two separate apartment blazes &#151; the deadliest day for New York firefighters since the 2001 terror attacks.
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Aided by light winds, firefighters made "outstanding" inroads Monday against a wildfire that has killed three people and burned more than 54 square miles.
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Seven Swiss firefighters were killed in the collapse of a parking garage ceiling in a fire in northern Switzerland, officials said today.
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Gusting wind that whipped a small wildfire into an inferno that consumed six homes let up on Thursday, helping hundreds of firefighters beat back the flames.
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A wildfire grew by an estimated 200 square miles in 24 hours, blackening grazing land Sunday as it threatened thousands of southern Idaho homes and facilities at an Air Force training range, fire officials said Sunday.
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Fire swept through a large apartment complex in Long Beach, Calif., killing two people and injuring 18, including six firefighters.  The fire at the 360-unit complex appeared to have been sparked accidentally, officials told the Long Beach Press-Telegram.