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Emergency crews in Winnipeg were called back to a home Sunday after it caught fire twice in one day. Firefighters rushed to 928 McMillan Ave. in the Crescentwood area at about 3:45 p.m. CT. Flames could be seen bursting out of a ground-floor window. Inky smoke billowed from the home's roof...

Three children were killed in a mobile home fire in Wheelersburg, Ohio, the Scioto County Sheriff's Department said Sunday. Two adults were also injured in the blaze, said Donya McClurg, a dispatcher with the sheriff's department. The children were 11 months old, 2 years old and 4 years old...

DECATUR, AL - An equipment failure is suspected in a church fire in Decatur but investigators are working to pinpoint the exact cause. Fire investigators said the fire at the Fairview Baptist Church appears to have started in a mechanical room on the third floor. Insurance agents spent the...

DARLINGTON COUNTY, SC – A fire rips through a Darlington County barn early Tuesday morning, killing nearly 500 animals sheltered from the cold weather. The owner of Ovis Hill Farm in Darlington County, just outside of Timmonsville, said he found the barn on fire around 6 a.m. Tuesday. He...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/12/12/man-hydrants-north-end.html Vandalism is suspected after several fire hydrants were opened in Winnipeg's North End, flooding streets with thousands of litres of water overnight Saturday. Police were forced to shut down streets around Church...

NEW CUMBERLAND, W.Va. -- Two people are dead and two others were burned after an explosion at a chemical plant in New Cumberland. It was originally reported by the company at about 6 p.m. that a third person died, but they have since retracted their statement, confirming only two people have...

Fire officials in northcentral Ohio were conducting interviews with witnesses and first responders early Friday to determine what caused a blaze that killed three children. The fire broke out at a mobile home in Bucyrus late Thursday night, said Shane Cartmill with the state Fire Marshal's...

DICKSON, Tenn. – A former tractor dealership most recently used as a restaurant in Dickson County was destroyed after it caught fire Wednesday morning. The call at the building, located just to the east of Dickson on Highway 70E, went out at about 5:30 a.m. and fire departments from several...

http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/blackstone/reptile-lamp-causes-central-falls-fire CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. - Investigators believe an early morning fire in Central Falls was caused by an alligator. The fire happened inside an apartment on Cleveland Street Tuesday morning. Firefighters said...

Jerusalem -- The "major sources" of a deadly Israeli wildfire have been extinguished, police said Sunday, as the Israeli cabinet approved a plan to speed aid to those affected. The cabinet's vote, at a special meeting near the area affected by the fire, came after Israeli Prime Minister...

http://www.wgal.com/r/26006243/detail.html GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- An early-morning fire destroyed a popular Gettysburg tourist attraction and severely damaged three other buildings in Gettysburg on Friday. The fire broke out along the 100 block of Chambersburg Street. The blaze started at about...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/12/03/flower.israel.fire.wall.cnn Jerusalem -- Five U.S. Defense Department aircraft will leave for Israel this weekend to help fight a wildfire that has killed at least 41 people and injured 17 others. They include three C-130 fire-fighting aircraft...

ELIZABETH, N.J. — What started as a two-alarm house fire quickly intensified to five-alarm, causing at least six injuries early Thanksgiving Day morning in New Jersey Fire officials say the blaze at the three-story wood-frame house located at 420 Magie Avenue in Elizabeth broke out just after...

56 exotic animals killed in fire at West TN wildlife sanctuary. BROWNSVILLE, TN - More than 50 animals died after a Mid-South wildlife sanctuary was destroyed by fire. Ark R.A.I.N. Wildlife Sanctuary in The Brownsville, Tennessee has worked to save exotic animals for 14 years. A porcupine...

A 13 year-old boy and his father are in critical condition in hospital after their rural Manitoba home was gutted by fire. RCMP said the fire broke out early Saturday morning in a home in the rural municipality of La Broquerie, near the town of the same name, about 70 kilometres southeast of...

Beijing, China -- Mourners lined up Sunday to lay flowers in front of a charred 28-story high-rise in Shanghai, China, where a fire killed at least 58 people last week, witnesses told CNN. Amid tight security, thousands gathered at the site Sunday morning. "There are tons of people here,"...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/11/15/vo.china.apt.fire.cctv Beijing, China -- Four suspects have been detained in a China high-rise fire that killed 53 people, state media said Tuesday. Monday's fire has hospitalized at least 70 other people, including 17 who were seriously injured...

State Road 82 in Fort Myers, FL. A construction worker operating a backhoe struck the 4" high pressure line at a road widening project. The operator was severly burned w/ 3rd degree burns over 50% of his body and was taken by Lee County EMS to Lee Memorial Trauma Center in Fort Myers. The fire...

An early-morning fire tore through a South Korean nursing home, killing ten people and injuring another seventeen, according to police. The fire at the senior citizens' residence broke out shortly before before dawn on Friday in Pohang, a port city on South Korea's southeastern coast about 375...

WILLOW, Alaska, -- A fire in a trailer in the small southern Alaska town of Willow Tuesday left four people dead, state police said. The victims' names and ages were being withheld until relatives could be informed, the Anchorage Daily News reported. The fire was spotted about 6 a.m. by a...