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LODD – Japan …. Chemical Explosion Causes Worldwide Backup of Diapers
Firefighter Killed in Blast A FIREFIGHTER IN HIMEJI, JAPAN, was killed Saturday while attacking a fire in a chemical factory. Kyodo News Service The fire was in the Nippon Shokubai Co. factory and...
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Updated: A Night of Ka-Booms and Fire Destroys Racing Fuel Factory
Winnipeg Business Wiped Out Update, Tuesday 1 pm Eastern: Additional video posted and later news added. Scroll down. A WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, PLANT WAS destroyed overnight when a fire traveled...
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Massive Ka-Boom Hits Russian Military Site
Believed to Involve 4,000 Tons of Shells Russia Today A SERIES OF THUNDEROUS EXPLOSIONS WRACKED a military testing facility in central Russia on Tuesday. Russia Today posted this snippet of raw...
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Out-Of-Control Fire in Queens Claims 50+ Homes, Still Burning
Six Alarms Working A FIRE IN THE QUEENS BOROUGH OF NEW YORK broke out around 11 pm Monday night and is still in progress Tuesday morning. The fire is located in the Breezy Point neighborhood which is...
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A Night of Heros
"A Night of Epic Proportions" -from The New York City Firefighter Brotherhood Yesterday afternoon I was eating jambalaya and red beans in a New Orleans dive. The television was in full hurricane mode....
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Downtown Apartment Fire in Juneau
Successfully Contained to Fire Building A MAJOR FIRE IN A 4-STORY DOWNTOWN apartment/commercial building burned for nine hours in Juneau, Alaska. The fire broke out around 5 pm Monday in a 4th-floor...
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Review of “Burn”
This is a must see documentary My tribe filled up a row in the back of the AMC LOEWS Georgetown 14 for the 8:30 pm showing on Friday. The theatre was about 3/4's full. Spent a good...
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Mammoth Gas Line Ka-Boom Eats Interstate Highway & Burns Homes
"Fire Sounds Like a Jet Plane Flying Over the Roof" * * * A 20-INCH NATURAL GAS TRANSMISSION LINE blew in Sissonville, West Virginia, Tuesday afternoon and started a large fire that consumed five...
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Famous Dormitory Fire Recalled 35 Years Later
* * * * On December 13, 1977, a fire started on the fourth floor of a women's dormitory, Aquinas Hall, at Providence College in Rhode Island. Within 30 minutes ten young women were dead....
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Famous Dormitory Fire Recalled – Part Two
* * * * On December 13, 1977, a fire started on the fourth floor of a women's dormitory, Aquinas Hall, at Providence College in Rhode Island. Within 30 minutes ten young women were dead. According...
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The 1913 Brennan Hotel fire – LAFD
This is but one story of a Fire Department drenched in rich history, centered around bravery. May it remind us of the daily courageous acts of firefighters world wide and the countless stories gone...
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Star Trek inspired a “kid with glasses who never flew a plane” to become an...
Remembering Astronaut Ronald E. McNair Published on Jan 27, 2013 On January 28, 1986, NASA Challenger mission STS-51-L ended in tragedy when the shuttle exploded 73 seconds after takeoff. On board...
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Inside Superdome operations center when the lights went out.
Solving problems as professionals Most folks involved in operations remain focused on their tasks. They plan for problems and consider options. Some civilians speculate that panic occurs when a...
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Nine More Houses Go In Shenandoah
Town Being Decimated by String of Fires THE COAL REGION CITY OF SHENANDOAH, Pennsylvania, took another hit early yesterday morning (Saturday) as the outbreak of house fires did even more damage than...
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Active: Terroristic-Style Bombings Interrupt Boston Marathon
MAJOR INCIDENT UNFOLDING * TWO EXPLOSIONS AT FINISH LINE as runners are coming through. WBZ-TV * HIGH INJURY COUNT – POSSIBLE DEATHS – Reports of human limbs being blown off. * BLASTS IN RAPID...
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Technician Kyle Wilson and the lessons we can never forget (repost)
Five Six years ago today Last year Dave Statter shared his experience about the 2007 line-of-duty death of Technician I Kyle Wilson in Prince Wiliam County. (Dave's article HERE). Dave is concerned...
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Mighty Ka-Boom Rocks Texas Town
Large Percentage of Town Leveled UPDATE: REPORT NOW SAYING THAT FIREFIGHTERS WERE ALREADY ON THE SCENE WORKING A FIRE WHEN THE BLAST HIT. UNKNOWN NUMBER INJURED OR KILLED. PLANT WORKERS ON SITE...
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West, Texas – Day 2
"That whole street is gone! … " Those were the words of a survivor of last night's major explosion in West, Texas, at the town's primary employer, a fertilizer plant. Listen to his first-hand...
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8-Story Factory Collapse Kills Scores In Bangladesh
Death Toll Continues To Rise UPDATE: As of late Thursday night the death toll has risen to 149. Scroll down. A FACTORY BUILDING FILLED WITH an estimated 2,000 workers collapsed suddenly Wednesday...
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Boston Deputy Chiefs declare “no confidence” in first outsider to be Chief of...
That's not how we do it here. On May 14 Dave Wedge of the Boston Herald broke this story: All 13 Thirteen of 14 deputy chiefs in the Boston Fire Department have declared they have “no confidence” in...
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