Tanker plummets into Detroit home, burns
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A tanker crashed through an interstate guardrail early Thursday and plummeted into a home, exploding and setting the truck and the house on fire.
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Nine people died and 14 were seriously wounded in a gas tanker explosion in west Baghdad just hours after a surprise visit to the Iraqi capital by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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Investigators found a gasoline can at the scene of an apartment building fire that killed four people &#151; including two children &#151; and critically injured two others.
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A man suffered a fatal heart attack while refueling a ferry, resulting in a spill that dumped nearly 2,000 gallons of fuel into Hyannis Harbor on Saturday morning, a Coast Guard official said.
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A German man in the northeastern town of Gross Godems was being treated for serious burns Monday after accidentally setting his apartment ablaze when he mixed up a bottle of gasoline with alcohol, police said.
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About 1,500 people were allowed to return home Thursday, a day after butane fumes from a wrecked tanker truck caused explosions in at least two homes.
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A domestic oil pipeline east of the Iraqi capital was ablaze Saturday amid a wave of attacks against oil infrastructure in this volatile country, witnesses said.
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Terrorist attacks on tankers carrying liquefied natural gas into a U.S. port could trigger a fire that could burn the skin of people a mile away and cause "major injuries and significant structural damage" within about a third of a mile, according to a government study released yesterday.
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Flames broke out in two Detroit-area homes Sunday, killing five people, including three members of a family, authorities said. Police officer Michael Waleskowki, 40, his wife
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A trucking company worker accidentally damaged a pressurized tank of sulfur dioxide Tuesday, releasing a cloud of the noxious gas and sickening dozens of people.
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More than 30 people were killed after a car crashed into a fuel tanker, which exploded and burst into flames early Saturday in the oil-rich town of Port Harcourt in Nigeria, police said.
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SWIFT action by Environment Agency staff helped prevent a North Wales river from being badly polluted after a tanker crash.   An estimated 4,000 litres of red diesel spilled into the Afon Elwy, near Pandy Tudur, Llanrwst, last Friday.
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Oil refiner Giant Industries Inc.  said on Sunday a fire occurred at its refinery in Yorktown, Virginia, on Saturday morning.
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A gas tanker truck wired with explosives blew up in a west Baghdad neighbourhood, killing one person, wounding 19 and lighting up the night sky with a fireball just hours after US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld left the Iraqi capital.
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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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Two children and two women were killed early Monday in a fire at an apartment complex in suburban Detroit.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  May 25--GULFPORT -- A section of Bayou View Apartments on Jody Nelson Drive were evacuated briefly around 12:45 p.m. as a fire destroyed the kitchen and living room of one residence.