6 Children Die in Chicago Fire; Stranger Able to Rescue One
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CHICAGO, Sept. 3 -- Children screamed, "We're burning!" as a fire swept through a three-bedroom apartment on Chicago's North Side early Sunday. Six children ages 3 to 14 were killed, and three children and a woman were injured, authorities said.
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A police officer in this Detroit suburb died with his wife and son in a Sunday morning house fire about the same time that two young girls died in a blaze in Detroit, police and fire officials said.
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Since their home was torched six weeks ago, Peter Monderu's six children sleep tangled like puppies on the cold ground. His 9-year-old girl bears the scars of a horrific arson attack on a church, and his fearful wife startles awake at the least sound.
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A devastating fire in a three-story building in the Bronx killed eight children and one adult and left several others injured in one of New York's deadliest blazes in recent memory, authorities said.
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Firefighter Marty McNamara had two young daughters and a third on the way when he barreled into a burning basement last November. His family was protected by the same accidental death benefit that covers every part-time firefighter in the state: none.
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Firefighter David Harmon thought he'd found a doll. Then it moved. As soon as he rolled Kyson Stowell over, the 11-month-old "took a gasp of air and started crying." The baby had only minor injuries, but his mother was one of 56 people killed by this week's tornado outbreak.
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A house fire Sunday morning in this Detroit suburb left three family members dead about the same time that a blaze in Detroit killed two young children, police and fire officials said.
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House fires in Kentucky and Tennessee on Tuesday killed 14 people, 10 of them children, officials said.
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As a father mourned the unimaginable &#151; the loss of five of his children in a fire that also devastated another family that shared his home &#151; a religious leader let him know that his pain was shared by many.
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A fire killed six people, including four children, in a single-family home early Wednesday, officials said, and authorities arrested an 18-year-old man in the blaze hours later.
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A baby boy was killed Thursday when flames engulfed a home day-care operation, and an off-duty deputy suffered minor injuries when he braved thick smoke to try to save the infant.
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Mourners gathered Saturday to remember five children who died in a row house fire, while investigators tried to determine whether they were left alone or in the care of a baby sitter.
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The mother of six of seven children killed in an apartment fire was charged Tuesday with involuntary manslaughter after investigators discovered she was visiting a neighbor at the time, a prosecutor said.
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During most of the six hours it took D.C. firefighters to extinguish a blaze that engulfed his condominium building, Paul Carabello huddled outside with his neighbors, clutching the things he had managed to save: his passport, Social Security card and cellphone.
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A 5-year-old girl injured in a house fire that killed her grandfather, a former state legislator, and his mother-in-law died Saturday, hospital officials said.
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Five people including two children are in hospital and one is unaccounted for following a house fire.
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Authorities identified the second and third people to have died in the fires.