A warehouse containing an unknown quantity of fireworks caught fire on Memorial Day, according to officials in Missouri. The fire at the Spirit of ’76 Fireworks warehouse in Boonville, Missouri, began on Monday afternoon. The Cooper County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the incident to Fox News Digital. The Boonville Police Department and Fire Department are responding to the scene. In a …
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A Georgia man was arrested after admitting to burning a trailer down with his stepmother inside it because his mother refused to sell the lot, according to police. Two Rome police officers responded to a structure fire late Saturday night at 11 Addington Court after a caller said a woman was trapped inside a trailer on the property, FOX 5 …
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A Connecticut TikToker is going viral after posting a video showing her tripping over her couch while trying to escape anout-of-control kitchen fire. The footage shared on an account operated in part by LaTeasha Brost, which now has 6 million views, was captured by a pet camera in her apartment’s living room. “Fire! Babe, we have a fire!” Brost is …
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The cross at the apse of Notre-Dame de Paris, which survived the devastating 2019 fire, was reinstalled atop the cathedral’s framework Friday after a meticulous restoration by artistic ironworkers from Normandy. The imposing cross, spanning 12 meters and weighing 1.5 tons, is the only element of the choir roof that resisted the flames. Workers celebrate after reinstalling the Notre Dame …
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An overnight fire in an apartment building in a narrow alley in Vietnam’s capital killed 14 people and injured six others, state media said Friday. The apartment building in central Hanoi could only be accessed through an alley just 6.5 feet wide, preventing firetrucks from reaching it, and firefighters eventually contained the fire by using hoses, state media said. The …
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Rescuers combed through piles of debris and wreckage Friday searching for bodies after an explosion and fire at a chemical factory in western India killed at least nine people and injured 64 others, officials said. The explosion in the factory’s boiler on Thursday led to a fire that affected nearby factories and houses in Maharashtra state’s Thane district, administrative official …
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The threat from a wildfire near Canada’s oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, appeared to be easing on Wednesday, a day after it forced thousands of residents to evacuate and stirred memories of a damaging blaze nearly a decade earlier. Favorable winds were expected to push the fire away from the city of about 68,000 in northwest Canada, where …
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A fire at a residential building in western Germany left three people dead and two others with life-threatening injuries Thursday, authorities said. The blaze broke out during the night in a kiosk that was part of the building in Duesseldorf. It spread to the entrance and second floor, the fire service said in a statement. 2 DEAD IN GERMAN CAPITAL …
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A welding operation sparked a huge fire in February at a water park that was under construction at one of Sweden’s biggest amusement centers, causing the death of one person, a newspaper reported Wednesday. “When welding the water slide, a fire started which then spread to the rest of the building. The fire spread quickly and caused great destruction,” the …
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A fire early at a marina in northwestern Croatia early Wednesday destroyed 22 boats and caused huge damage but no injuries. An investigation was underway to determine what caused the fire at the marina in Medulin, a small town on the Istrian peninsula that’s popular with tourists in the northern part of the Adriatic Sea. Photos showed boats in the …
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