24 firefighters died in 2006 wildfires
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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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The U.S. Forest Service committed safety violations that contributed to the deaths of five of its firefighters in a Southern California blaze last year, workplace safety regulators said Thursday.
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WINNIPEG (CP) - The children of a Winnipeg firefighter who lost his life while battling a house fire remembered their father on Monday as a hero.  Kelly Nichols spoke at the funeral for Capt. Tom Nichols, 57, one of two firefighters killed Feb. 4 when a flashover engulfed them in flames.
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As at least 170 wildfires spread, many say that a lack of environmental protection is to blame.
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French police said at least 24 people died on Sunday when a coach carrying Polish pilgrims plunged down a hillside and burst into flames near the southeastern French city of Grenoble.
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Firefighters brought Australia's deadliest bushfires in 20 years under control on Wednesday after nine people died in the blazes.
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Four young children died when fire engulfed their rural home, and state investigators were called in to help determine the cause of the blaze, officials said Sunday.
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A firefighter has died and four others have been injured after a fire engine crashed in Clackmannanshire.
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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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An investigation into a fire which claimed the lives of four firefighters finds officers were not given enough information.
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A fire that broke out in a cold storage facility has killed at least seven people and left 32 missing Monday in Icheon, South Korea, fire officials told CNN.
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French police said at least 24 people  died on Sunday when a coach carrying Polish pilgrims plunged  down a hillside and burst into flames near the southeastern  French city of Grenoble.
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Firefighters in Northern California got a break Saturday when winds that had whipped 45 wildfires died down.  One of the largest fires, which charred 400 acres west of Yountville Friday, was 60 percent contained Saturday morning, the Napa Valley Register reported.
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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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ADELAIDE, Australia  - 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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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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After a week of battling raging wildfires that cutoff villages, killed 64 people and burned nearly 500,000 acres of land, fire department officials said Thursday that just one major blaze remained to bring under control.