9 'courageous firefighters' die in warehouse blaze
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An inferno raced through a Charleston, South Carolina, furniture warehouse collapsing its roof and killing nine firefighters in a tragedy that the city's mayor described as "difficult to fathom." "They lost their lives fighting for the safety of our citizens," Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. said.
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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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Lessons learned in a deadly 2003 high-rise fire may have saved lives this week when a fire broke out on the 29th floor of a downtown skyscraper, fire officials said Tuesday.
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The story of the Charleston fire that killed nine firefighters is one of senseless loss-and of valor in the face of grave danger
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How did a trash fire in an outdoor bin manage to spread to a furniture store and explode into a raging inferno that killed nine firefighters? And why were as many as 16 firefighters inside the place when the roof came down?
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An apartment building fire in southwest Germany killed at least nine people, five of them children, and left 20 people hospitalized, police said Monday.
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CHARLESTON, South Carolina  - Nine firefighters died battling a blaze that raced through a furniture store and warehouse in Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday night, triggering a rolling ball of smoke and flames that destroyed the roof and pelted onlookers with hot ash.
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When it comes to heroes, it&#39;s tough to top firefighters, those brave individuals who risk their lives by fearlessly charging into infernos to save people trapped inside.
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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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Six people, including three children, who tried to escape a house fire died yesterday after getting trapped in the garage, authorities said.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - At least nine people  were killed and 200 injured when a fire erupted in a crowded  nightclub in central Buenos Aires, police said on Friday.
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Rusty Thomas doesn't try to stop his hands from shaking, or his tears from showing, when he tells how his son tried to console his grief the night after nine of his firefighters perished in a furniture store blaze.
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An intense fire torched an apartment building early Saturday, killing three people and forcing 11 families to scramble for safety from the smoke and flames, a fire official said.
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CHARLESTON, S.C., June 19 -- Fire swept through a furniture warehouse, collapsing its roof and killing nine firefighters inside in the nation's deadliest single disaster for firefighters since the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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By DUNCAN MANSFIELD  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A spectacular fire early Wednesday destroyed a row of vacant downtown warehouses, injuring three firefighters who had to climb down a hose to safety.
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Fire broke out at a ThyssenKrupp plant in  Italy on Friday, just over a week after a blaze killed four  workers at another company site, but the fire was put out with  no injuries or damage, firefighters said.
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Firefighters battled a blaze at a Daily News printing facility and warehouse early Saturday.