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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Fires resulting from the fighting in Sudan destroyed or damaged 72 villages and settlements last month, a U.K.-based rights group said Monday, highlighting the use of fire as a weapon of war in the conflict in the African country. Investigators from Sudan Witness, an open-source project run by the nonprofit Center for Information Resilience, say that more blazes broke out …
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A major fire broke out Sunday morning in a vast shopping complex in the Polish capital that housed some 1,400 shops and service outlets and where many of the vendors were from Vietnam. Huge plumes of black smoke could be seen rising over the vast area. The fire department said that more than 80% of the Marywilska 44 shopping complex …
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At least one person was killed and four others were injured after a huge fire broke out at a chemical storage tank in an Eastern Thailand industrial park on Thursday. The fire in Mab Ta Phut Industrial Estate, which was first reported in the morning, was contained more than six hours later. Fire workers estimated it might take more than …
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A captain in New York City’s Department of Correction suffered burns and smoke inhalation when her body camera suddenly caught fire, prompting the department to stop using the equipment pending an investigation. NY V. TRUMP: MAYOR ADAMS SAYS RIKERS ISLAND IS ‘PREPARED’ IF TRUMP IS SENTENCED TO JAIL The captain was on duty at the Rikers Island jail complex last …
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