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A pair of weekend fires in New Brunswick have destroyed two homes. A Fredericton man is homeless after fire destroyed his mobile home Saturday night. Firefighters responded to the fire at 56 Needle Court shortly after 7 p.m. Platoon Chief Art Van Horne with the Fredericton fire department...

-- Firefighters in Washington have contained a massive blaze that started on one house's roof and spread to at least 15 other homes, authorities said. Stacked logs at a saw mill were also engulfed by the fire and helped fuel the flames, Yakima County Fire Chief George Spencer said late...

-- A pipeline explosion in eastern Ohio lit up the sky for 40 miles around but caused no injuries late Thursday, a government official said. Flames from the fire shot 200 feet into the air, Jim Hoppel, president of the Columbiana County commission, said. The explosion, involving a Tennessee...

One worker was unaccounted for after explosions rocked a natural gas liquids storage complex on Tuesday in Mont Belvieu, Texas, according to the plant's owner, which also said the main facilities were not damaged. Firefighters contained the massive fire, visible 35 miles to the west in...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/02/07/australia.brushfires.perth.intv.cnn -- As residents returned Tuesday to Western Australia neighborhoods where fierce bushfires destroyed dozens of homes, state officials announced they would donate $1 million to a relief fund for victims. "I have...

RIO DE JANEIRO – A large fire swept through Rio de Janeiro's Carnival center on Monday, destroying thousands of costumes and floats and throwing preparations for Brazil's annual festival of hedonism into chaos. Television images showed thick plumes of smoke rising over central Rio early in the...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/02/06/vo.ohio.train.derails.wtvg -- A train carrying thousands of gallons of ethanol derailed Sunday in northwestern Ohio, forcing nearby evacuations, emergency management officials said. Video from the scene showed a massive blaze ignited by the incident...

-- Firefighters battled bushfires in and around Perth in Western Australia on Monday, emergency officials said. The raging flames have destroyed at least 59 homes, Sally Bowery with CNN affiliate Seven Network reported, citing fire authorities. Western Australia's premier, Colin Barnett, said...

-- A gas pipeline was set on fire in the Egyptian Sinai town of El Arish on Saturday in a suspected terrorist attack, officials said. The pipeline goes to Jordan and Syria, said a spokesman for Merhav company, a partner of EMG, the company that owns the pipeline. Unless the pipe was repaired...

- A fire at a senior living center in Phoenix killed at least one person Sunday, authorities said. "Firefighters found within a minute of arriving an elderly woman dead on the scene inside an apartment who appeared to have been overcome by smoke and fire," said Capt. Scott Walker with the...

-- Armed militants in Pakistan set fire to two trucks taking supplies to U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, police told CNN on Sunday. The four militants riding on two motorcycles opened fire on the trucks and brought them to a halt in a town southeast of Quetta in Baluchistan province, said...

A mother and her two daughters escaped a major house fire in downtown Hull, Que., shortly before it destroyed two homes Friday afternoon. The fire broke out around 1:30 p.m. at 104 Leduc St., and by around 2:15 p.m. it had spread to a second house. By the time firefighters got the blaze under...

-- Eleven people died and dozens of others were injured when a passenger ferry caught fire in Indonesia early Friday, a transportation official said. In a separate incident, three people were killed when two trains collided in the province of West Java, transportation ministry spokesman Bambang...

- A local activist group is speaking out against the Houston Fire Department in what has become the latest in a long line of complaints of racism within the department. The city is now investigating a complaint from a Latino firefighter who says he was humiliated after finding a racially...

http://www.fox19.com/global/Category.asp?C=195974&autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=5502282 MADISON TOWNSHIP, OH (FOX19) - A shelter-in-place that was ordered for northern Butler County following a massive chemical fire has been lifted. Flames broke out at the Mar-Flex Company...

Firefighters were called to a fire in Toronto's east end on Sunday morning. The three-alarm house fire erupted at a home on Sutherland Drive, near Laird Drive and Eglinton Avenue East, at about 6 a.m. The house was under construction and there was no one inside when the fire broke out...

Weekend fires broke out in two Winnipeg homes that were concealing marijuana-growing operations, police say. An explosion at a William Avenue West home Saturday brought police and emergency crews to the Weston area at about 4:30 p.m. There, a 29-year-old man was found suffering from...

A woman visiting from Saskatchewan has died in a house fire on the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation reserve in Manitoba, local officials say. The fire broke out on the reserve, about 100 kilometres south of Winnipeg, around 5 a.m. CT Saturday. "There were a whole bunch of ambulance and...

A man is facing 20 charges after a police investigation into a shooting and firebombing at a home in west-end Toronto. Police say a business dispute between two men led to shots being fired at the home a few weeks before the house was destroyed by fire on Boxing Day. It's alleged that one of...

Deputy Suzanne Hopper, a mother of two, was shot and killed New Year's Day in Clark County, Ohio. -- The camper home of a man suspected of killing an Ohio sheriff's deputy on New Year's Day was destroyed after being purposefully set on fire Saturday, authorities said. "Because this is an...