Electrical short blamed in Mo. fire
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Hours before a fatal fire at a southwest Missouri group home, a maintenance man trying to fix a furnace shorted the electrical wiring running through the attic where investigators believe the fire started, according to documents released Tuesday.
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CEDAR FORT, Utah County -- A wildfire burned 140 acres Sunday afternoon about half a mile east of town near state Route 73.  The fire started about 3:20 p.m. Because there was no lightning, firefighters believe the blaze was caused by humans. Utah County Sheriff's Lt.
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Charred ruins remain after a late-night mobile home fire, apparently ignited by a cigarette, claimed the life of a woman Thursday. Firefighters arrived to find the structure near 4600 South and 1100 West fully engulfed in flames.
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Police are investigating the cause of an overnight fire which destroyed a shop in County Antrim.
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A fire at an electricity sub station leaves parts of Birmingham city centre without power.
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A house fire that killed 10 people earlier this month was most likely related to smoking, the state fire marshal said Thursday.
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By Greg Cima, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Jun. 13--UPDATED 11 A.M. TOWANDA -- The cause remains unclear for an explosion Tuesday that left one man hospitalized and another hurt inside the Indian Creek subdivision water tower.
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 6--The spark of a train is the suspected cause of a wildfire near Eveleth on Tuesday, one of several wildfires reported in recent days as the Northland remains gripped in drought.   The fire was east of St.
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NEW YORK - A fire at the WABC-TV studio in New York City interrupted Sunday night's broadcast and caused the evacuation of the television network's building. Channel 7's Sunday night broadcast was suspended for more than an hour, beginning at about 11 p.m.
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By DAVE SKRETTA  KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Firefighters worked Thursday to douse the last of the flames at a chemical distribution business where several explosions shot fireballs hundreds of feet in the air and sent a vast plume of black smoke drifting over the downtown skyline.
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Homes and business were ordered evacuated after an explosion Tuesday morning started a fire at a Wichita-area solvents plant, authorities said.
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Six families were moved from their homes in a chemical scare when fire broke out in a disused former steelworks building. About 40 firefighters were called out to the blaze at the old Ivor Works building at Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, at 4.40pm yesterday.
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Investigators are probing whether oxygen tanks, among other possible causes, may have started a fire at an adult care home that killed one person and put more than a dozen in the hospital, authorities said Tuesday.
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By LLOYD JOJOLA Journal Staff Writer  The Friday fire that charred an estimated 500-plus acres of bosque area at Rio Communities near Belen was "human-caused," a state official said Saturday.  "It was accidental," said Dan Ware, a state Forestry Division spokesman.
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Several hundred Burtonsville homes and businesses lost Verizon phone and Internet service when a utility pole fire damaged a large cable early this morning, a company official said.
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An explosion and massive fire in an industrial complex near downtown Kansas City, Missouri, forced some evacuations and closed nearby roads, local media reports said.
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By Jason Kuiper, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 24--For the second time in a little more than a week, residents of the Cornerstone Apartments were evacuated after a fire at Famous Dave's BBQ in the Old Market.   The fire Saturday at about 10:30 p.m.