Police, Fire Report: Cooking Oil Fire Damages Battle Ground Apartment
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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.
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By Patrick Mcdermott, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Dec. 18--FORT WALTON BEACH -- A fire destroyed a home early Sunday in a neighborhood off Beal Parkway.  The Fort Walton Beach Fire Department responded to 36 Shell Ave.
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A year ago, a fire broke out in one of the five oil refineries in Contra Costa County in Northern California, spewing fumes into the air in Richmond.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A series of explosions that devastated a chemical distribution plant and shrouded this city in black smoke was an accident, officials said Friday.  Fire Chief Richard Dyer said the blaze started Wednesday when employees were offloading a petroleum-based product.
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By JAYETTE BOLINSKI STAFF WRITER  Employees at the Illinois State Police crime lab on Bruns Lane were evacuated Friday after someone broke a bottle of a hazardous chemical called acetonitrile.  Springfield firefighters were sent to the building about 3:20 p.m.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  May 31--DURHAM -- Someone sprayed "KKK" and other racial slurs at an apartment complex Wednesday. The messages appeared to be directed at the management, police said.
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Police appeal for witnesses after flammable liquid is thrown through the window of a house in County Down.
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By Christine Dempsey, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Sep. 12--STORRS -- A chemical spill Monday morning caused a fire and forced about 200 people to evacuate the new Pharmacy/Biology building at the University of Connecticut.
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By Lou Grieco Staff Writer  DAYTON -- A Montgomery County Common Pleas Court judge has found that operators of Isotec, the site of a 2003 explosion that evacuated a neighborhood, were negligent.  "We can go to trial and just talk about damages," attorney Richard W. Schulte said.
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By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 16--An oil pipeline spill on Feb. 2 in Rusk County -- one of the largest such accidents of its kind in state history -- has been found to have contaminated the local water table, officials confirmed Thursday.
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SOUTH SALT LAKE -- A fire at a restaurant caused extensive damage Saturday.  Fire was reported at the Chicken Express, 3440 S. State, just before 10 a.m.
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Someone lit 22 small fires in laundry facilities of the Parkridge Apartments complex on Casino Road in Everett yesterday morning. Smoke leaked into the living quarters above the laundry rooms, alerting residents
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The explosion occurred during a police raid. It destroyed a house believed to have been used by foreign fighters, and flattened several nearby buildings.
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By Staff and wire reports, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 20--A three-alarm fire destroyed eight units of an apartment building Monday at 5603 Willow Cliff in northwest Oklahoma City.   ------   No one was reported hurt in the blaze that began about 3:15 p.m.
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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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By WELHAM, Keri  POLICE are worried about the safety of a woman they believe was in a house that exploded in suburban Wellington.   The kitchen of a flat at the back of a house in The Parade, in Island Bay, was blackened in the blast just after midday yesterday.
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A Capitol Hill house where Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) rents an apartment caught fire yesterday while the Democratic presidential contender was out of town, a spokesman said.