Fire Dies Down at Kansas City Plant
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By DAVE SKRETTA  KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Firefighters doused the last flames and watched for hot spots Thursday at a chemical distribution plant that was devastated by fire a day before.
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By Jenni Laidman, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Feb. 20--Black smoke billows across the Maumee River from a fast-moving factory fire.
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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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By David Linhardt, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Dec. 19--Smoke billowed from a pallet recycling plant near Chouteau Trafficway as thousands of wooden pallets burned for hours Monday afternoon.   The thick haze could be seen 25 miles away.
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By AMANDA REAVY STAFF WRITER  One of Springfield's few recycling drop-off sites, F&W Resources, 3327 Terminal Ave., burned late Wednesday in a spectacular fire fueled by stacked bales of paper and other recyclables.  The north-end fire was reported at 8:51 p.m.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina  - A fire that created a toxic cloud at a hazardous waste plant in a Raleigh suburb has been extinguished and thousands of residents will be allowed to return home on Saturday, officials said.
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SUISUN CITY, Calif. - A fire burned early Friday at a massive fertilizer plant outside San Francisco, but it wasn't immediately known if the burning materials were toxic.
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Hundreds of firefighters contained a huge blaze at a fireworks factory Thursday, a day after it broke out, setting off at least one explosion as powerful as an earthquake. One firefighter was killed and at least 20 homes were destroyed.
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Firefighters were so busy battling a warehouse blaze Tuesday that they needed outside help &#151; to protect their own fire station.
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The fire shut down the vessel's nuclear reactor but caused no damage, and there was no radiation leak, officials are reported to have said.
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By Leigh Ann Tipton, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Feb. 3--GRAHAM -- Operations at a defense contractor's Muhlenberg County plant are up and running again following a fire last week that destroyed one building on site.
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An explosion and fire at an Abbott Laboratories manufacturing site early Saturday sent three employees to the hospital, company and fire officials said.
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By John Shultz, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 9--Shortly after noon today, police removed barricades from most streets surrounding the charred remnants of the Chemcentral Corp. plant in the East Bottoms.
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Firefighters all but extinguished a blaze at a sugar refinery that had been burning since an explosion late Thursday leveled the building.
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By Jon Schubin, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Sep. 21--Relying on their brains, brawn   Six firefighters tried Wednesday to lower a 4,400-pound slab of concrete called the Rock down an improvised ramp, slowly and under control. They didn't make it.
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Workers extinguish a fire at Japan's Kashiwazaki nuclear plant, closed since it was hit by an earthquake in July.
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Firefighters doused the last flames and watched for hot spots Thursday at a chemical distribution plant that was devastated by fire a day before.