Police in Connecticut say a third person has died as the result of a fire that also killed an 8-month-old baby and is being investigated as a crime. The blaze was reported at about 6 p.m. Wednesday at a home in Wallingford, about 14 miles north of New Haven. Police and firefighters said they initially found a man with severe …
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A man died in a fire under an Atlantic City pier near a homeless encampment, authorities said. The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office said Friday that Bruce Elder, 67, died in a fire that began Thursday evening under the Central Pier at the boardwalk and Tennessee Avenue. Fire Chief Scott Evans said Elder was believed to be homeless, and the prosecutor’s …
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Authorities in New Jersey are investigating what caused a school bus to burst into flames on a busy highway with 10 students aboard. STUDENTS, DRIVER ESCAPE MOMENTS BEFORE NJ SCHOOL BUS BURSTS INTO FLAMES ON HIGHWAY The driver and all 10 students were able to safely get off the bus after the fire broke out Wednesday afternoon on the Garden …
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More than half a year after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century burned through a historic Maui town, officials are still trying to determine exactly what went wrong and how to prevent similar catastrophes in the future. But two reports released this week are filling in some of the blanks. The most recent is a detailed timeline …
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A school bus carrying students was engulfed in flames along New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway on Wednesday, fire officials said. Firefighters responded around 2:30 p.m. to mile marker 20.8 southbound on the parkway in Cape May County and found the fire raging throughout the bus, the Seaville Fire and Rescue Company said. All 10 students and the bus driver had …
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Authorities evacuated an area of Ohio’s capital, Columbus, for several hours on Thursday out of fear that a fire in truck’s trailer could have caused lithium ion batteries to explode. DRIVER DEAD AFTER FIERY CRASH INTO CHICAGO-AREA TOLL PLAZA Police began evacuating a several-block area west of downtown shortly after 7 a.m. and closed off several highway exits near the …
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A vehicle plowed into a suburban Chicago highway toll plaza early Thursday, engulfing it and the plaza in flames and killing the motorist, police said. STUDENTS, DRIVER ESCAPE MOMENTS BEFORE NJ SCHOOL BUS BURSTS INTO FLAMES ON HIGHWAY Illinois State Police said troopers responded to the scene after receiving a report that a vehicle had struck the Barrington Road Toll …
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When wildfires broke out across Maui last August, some firefighters carried victims piggyback over downed power lines to safety and sheltered survivors inside their engines. Another drove a moped into a burning neighborhood again and again, whisking people away from danger one at a time. But despite devoting nearly all the personnel and vehicles it had to the fight on …
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The Maui Fire Department is expected to release a report Tuesday detailing how the agency responded to a series of wildfires that burned on the island during a windstorm last August — including one that killed 101 people in the historic town of Lahaina and became the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. The release comes one day …
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A fire raged through one of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings on Tuesday, causing the collapse of the iconic spire from the 17th-century Old Stock Exchange as passersby rushed to help emergency services save priceless paintings and other valuables. Danish Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said it was “touching” to see how many people lent their hand “to save art treasures and iconic …
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