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SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (AP) — Boaters leaped into the water to escape an explosive fire that consumed at least 35 vessels docked along the Tennessee River early Monday. Authorities said there were fatalities as 7 people were sent to hospitals and 7 others were initially reported missing. The blaze was reported shortly after midnight as people […]

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HEMET, Calif. (AP) — A fast moving fire in a Southern California apartment complex Friday killed two girls and their father, who died after he got some of the family to safety but returned to try to rescue his other children, police said. The man’s 8-year-old son was also found gravely injured in the apartment […]

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A 32-year-old trans-woman was arrested last week after walking into a Taco Bell, dousing a woman with gasoline, and then setting her on fire, Tallahassee police told the Miami Herald. Police said Mia Williams ran away after committing the heinous act on Wednesday, and the victim was taken to a hospital by helicopter with serious injuries, the paper […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — A 9-year-old child accused of causing a mobile home fire that killed three children and two adults in central Illinois has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder. The juvenile also was charged with two counts of arson and one count of aggravated arson, the (Peoria) Journal Star reported. The April […]

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — At least 25 people were confirmed dead and nine others still missing after a tragic boat fire early Monday near an island off the Southern California coast. The dive-boat Conception, far out to sea in the middle of the night, became fully engulfed in flames as 30 passengers on a […]

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ERIE, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania home child care center where a fire killed five kids did not have enough working smoke detectors, the fire chief said Tuesday. There was one detector in the attic of the Harris Family Daycare in the lakeside city of Erie, Fire Chief Guy Santone told a news conference Tuesday. […]

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A 70-year-old man camping in a Walmart parking lot put a hot cook stove in his van, causing it to catch fire and spread to another van, burning two young sisters and killing one of them, authorities said Wednesday. Prosecutors charged Roberto Lino Hipolito of Long Beach, California, with second-degree manslaughter and […]

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A West Philadelphia man tried to save his mother from a blazing fire by scaling a 19-story building to come to her rescue.

A woman faces a first-degree arson charge after allegedly setting a fire that damaged five apartments on Thursday morning. Octavia Nicole Carter, 27, of Atlanta, is accused of starting the fire at around 10:15 a.m., displacing numerous people, Atlanta Fire Rescue said. The department posted a video to Twitter of flames and smoke billowing out […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Six people, including four children, were killed Wednesday when an overnight fire ravaged an apartment in a city-owned Harlem building, fire and police officials said. Firefighters, who were called at around 1:40 a.m., moved aggressively into the flames and thick smoke and found a man and a woman, as well as […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Is there anything firefighters could have done to control the blaze that tore through Paris‘ historic Notre Dame Cathedral sooner? Experts say the combination of a structure that’s more than 850 years old, built with heavy timber construction and soaring open spaces, and lacking sophisticated fire-protection systems led to the quick […]

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Three Black churches in the same Louisiana parish have been set on fire over the last ten days. As reported by NBC News, St. Mary’s Baptist Church was the first reported church fire on March 26. Then, Greater Union Baptist Church was set ablaze a week later. Mount Pleasant is the third church to burn down in St. Landry Parish, […]