9 Firefighters Killed in South Carolina Blaze
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A furniture-store building collapsed last night, in the deadliest blaze for firefighters in Charlestonâs history.
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At least eight people were killed Tuesday as a bushfire burned out of control across a southern Australia peninsula, others were missing and six more were rescued after they escaped into the sea, officials said.
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A fire engulfed a locked leather factory in Calcutta early Wednesday, killing at least nine people who had been trapped inside, officials said.
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A memorial service is held for nine US firefighters killed in a warehouse fire in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Fire destroyed an apartment building and a synagogue, killing at least one person, authorities said. A separate blaze in York, Penn., burned down a home early Saturday, killing four people and injuring three others who leapt from the building to safety.
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Robert Beddia, who died in a blaze at the Deutsche Bank skyscraper on Aug. 18, stood out as one of only 502 firefighters over 50 on a force of more than 9,000.
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The massive furniture store fire that killed nine Charleston, South Carolina, firefighters began in the loading dock area, federal officials confirmed Saturday.
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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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BOONE, N.C. - An apartment fire killed three young sisters trapped in a rear bedroom, after the flames prevented rescuers and their father from re-entering the burning building, officials said Friday.
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A firefighter died and more than a dozen houses in two states were razed by wildfires that flared across south-eastern Australia yesterday as high temperatures and blustery winds whipped up massive firestorms.
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Firefighters continued making progress today in taming the wildfires that devastated Southern California this week, but thousands of homes remained imperiled and officials said they had found two burned bodies in a home outside San Diego.
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Two firefighters were killed in a blaze at a fireworks factory in southern England on Sunday that injured a dozen others and sent explosions high into the sky for hours, police said.
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At least seven people have been killed and 10 injured in a fire at a warehouse in South Korea.
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A house fire killed several people early Saturday in southwestern Pennsylvania, police reported.
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By Sherry Youngquist, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 23--MOUNT AIRY   Firefighters battled more than 27 wildfires in the Piedmont and foothills yesterday.   About 40 acres burned, said the N.C. Division of Forest Resources, which helped local firefighters with the fires.
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV  MOSCOW - A fire swept through a nursing home Thursday and killed at least 10 people, the latest in a series of deadly fires, many of which were caused by rampant neglect of safety rules.
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A New York City fire lieutenant died and eight people were injured in a fire in a high-rise apartment building.