Category Archives: Fire

Massive chemical plant fire near Dallas

By doris | Published: October 3, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com WAXAHACHIE, Texas — A fire at a chemical plant south of Dallas shot massive plumes of black smoke and bright orange flames into the sky Monday, forcing schoolchildren and residents to evacuate or take cover indoors to avoid possible exposure to dangerous gases. Flames engulfed what appeared to be several areas [...]

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Boy, 11, saves family from house fire

By doris | Published: July 16, 2011

Full Story at newsnet5.com CLEVELAND – A family with seven children escaped an early-morning fire thanks to the quick thinking of one of the children The fire began early Friday morning in a bedroom of a home along Fidelity Avenue in Cleveland’s West Side. Jamahr Larkin was sleeping when the fire alarm woke him up. [...]

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Wildfire season off to a raging start across Southwest, South

By doris | Published: June 14, 2011

Full Story at  msnbc.com Wildfires have consumed more than 4.2 million acres of land across the U.S. so far this year, a number more than double the most recent 10-year average, but there’s still hope that 2011 won’t be a record year — all that winter snow in the Rockies, Sierras and Cascades should keep [...]

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Fourth Child Dies After Houston Day Care Blaze

By doris | Published: February 26, 2011

Full Story ataolnews.com A fourth child died today as a result of a fire in a Houston home day care center, a local television station reported, and investigators are trying to determine whether the center’s owner was out shopping when the deadly blaze ignited. Eighteen-month-old Elias Castillo died this morning, Houston television station KTRK reported. [...]

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Giving thanks for everyday American heroes

By doris | Published: November 26, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com If someone had told Victor Perez at the beginning of the year that he’d soon find fame because of a heroic act, he would have laughed. He couldn’t even find a job. But the events of Oct. 5 were so unbelievable that the 30-year-old unemployed construction worker was left shaking and [...]

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More than 200 rescued from blazing ferry in Baltic

By doris | Published: October 9, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com BERLIN — More than 200 passengers and crew were evacuated after a ferry caught fire near the German island of Fehmarn in the Baltic Sea, German authorities said Saturday. The Lithuanian passenger and car ferry Lisco Gloria was en route from the northern city of Kiel to the Lithuanian port of [...]

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Latest Gulf oil rig problem differs from BP spill

By doris | Published: September 3, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NEW ORLEANS – Stark differences exist between the oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico and the blast that led to the massive BP spill. Mostly notably, no one was killed and no crude was gushing into the water, but the distinctions don’t end there. Even though the Mariner Energy-owned [...]

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Third blaze ignites as fire crews gain ground on two more

By doris | Published: July 30, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Hundreds of firefighters battled a third wildfire in the Los Angeles area early Friday as two more raged within 60 miles of one another. The latest — known as the Crown Fire — has ignited more than 5,000 acres, fire officials said. About 500 firefighters were [...]

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Second Flagstaff fire forces more to flee

By doris | Published: June 21, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Firefighters in aircraft and on the ground battled the second serious wildfire to threaten the Flagstaff area in two days Sunday, prompting officials to urge hundreds of residents to flee as flames crept within 500 yards of some homes. Officials said the fast-spreading fire erupted in this forested [...]

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Car bomb found in parked SUV in Times Square

By doris | Published: May 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A T-shirt vendor who noticed smoke coming out of a tinted, dark green sport utility vehicle alerted police to what turned out to be a potential bomb placed in Times Square. “We avoided what could have been a very deadly event,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg early Sunday morning. “It [...]

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New leak discovered as Coast Guard mulls options to clean oil spill

By doris | Published: April 29, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The estimated amount of oil leaking from a sunken rig in the Gulf of Mexico has increased to as much as 5,000 barrels a day — five times more than what was originally believed, a Coast Guard official said late Wednesday. Rear Adm. Mary Landry told reporters that the [...]

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Feds may set Gulf oil slick ablaze

By doris | Published: April 28, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com Oil is still leaking at a rate of about 42,000 gallons a day from the well, located some 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana beneath a drill rig that exploded and sank last week. Eleven workers are still missing following the incident, and are presumed dead. BP, the well’s owner, [...]

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7-alarm NYC Chinatown fire injures 25

By doris | Published: April 12, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK CITY – A seven-alarm fire broke out in Manhattan’s Lower East Side Chinatown neighborhood on Sunday night, injuring 25 people, NBC News affiliate WNBC reported. At least 250 firefighters were battling the blaze, a New York Fire Department official told WNBC. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, [...]

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Two firefighters killed in Southern California

By doris | Published: August 31, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS ANGELES – Two firefighters were killed Sunday when their vehicle rolled down a mountain side amid the intense flames of a wildfire that threatened 12,000 homes. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urged those in the fire’s path to get out as the blazes rained ash on cars as far away as downtown [...]

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Nature’s fireworks on display

By doris | Published: July 6, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com On the Fourth of July, the United States celebrates its independence with picnics, parades and of course, fireworks such as these seen exploding above the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. In honor of the holiday, we’ve cobbled together a collection of nature’s best fireworks displays. Click the “Next” button above to [...]

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NTSB: Plane Plunged Flat To The Ground

By doris | Published: February 15, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS/AP) Here in the Buffalo suburb of Clarence Center, the sadness and dismay linger on Saturday night as workers press their search for the cause of Thursday’s deadly air crash, reports CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor. Officials say the recovery of bodies and debris will take days, not hours, the [...]

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Plane crashes into suburban Buffalo-area home; 49 killed

By doris | Published: February 13, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com Continental Connection Flight 3407, operated by Colgan Air, was en route from Newark, New Jersey, to Buffalo when it went down at around 10:20 p.m. The crash occurred about seven miles from Buffalo Niagara International Airport.

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84 killed in deadliest-ever Australian wildfires

By doris | Published: February 8, 2009

Full Story At Yahoo! News HEALESVILLE, Australia – Towering flames razed entire towns in southeastern Australia and burned fleeing residents in their cars as the death toll rose to 84 on Sunday, making it the country’s deadliest fire disaster. At least 700 homes were destroyed in Saturday’s inferno when searing temperatures and wind blasts produced [...]

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