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BRIEF: Fire damages apartment building near Summit Lake (Mar 10, 2010)
Mar. 10--A kitchen fire this morning in an Akron apartment building near Summit Lake forced the occupants of the building from their homes.

Worker stuck on open drawbridge in Florida (Mar 10, 2010)
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. - A worker appears to be stuck clutching onto a Florida drawbridge fixed in the air in Pompano Beach.

Out of control ; Saty warning as 100 gorse fires range in dry weather (Mar 10, 2010)
FIRE officers are urging people to stop and think about the consequences of grass fires following dozens of blazes across North Wales over the last three days.

4 Die in Textile Shop Fire (Mar 11, 2010)
MASAI: Four Indian nationals died in a pre-dawn fire, believed to be arson, which gutted a double-storey shophouse in Jalan Pasar here yesterday.

Woman, infant son die in early morning fire (Mar 10, 2010)
Mar. 10--SELMA -- A 21-year-old woman and her 14-month-old son were killed early Wednesday morning in a fire that broke out in a second-story apartment unit.

BRIEF: Fire destroys vacant house (Mar 10, 2010)
Mar. 10--An extinguished fire at a home on Fourth Street flared back up early Tuesday morning, destroying the vacant home.

House destroyed by fire in Elgin (Mar 10, 2010)
Elgin police and the Illinois state fire marshal are investigating a suspicious early-morning house fire that left a residence uninhabitable.

Fire destroys Avonmore house; woman hospitalized (Mar 10, 2010)
Mar. 10--A fire at an Indiana Avenue house Tuesday night gutted the home and sent a woman who lived there to the hospital with burns.

Vehicle arsons turn up in Maryland, too: Two vehicles were torched 3 miles across state line Tuesday as two burned in York County. (Mar 10, 2010)
Mar. 10--As firefighters were working on two vehicles set ablaze in York County, crews in Maryland were dealing with two more just 3 miles across the state line.

Arsonists blamed as mountain fires hit the region ; Vow to catch blaze culprits (Mar 10, 2010)
FIRE chiefs have declared "enough is enough" after flames tore through mountainsides across South Wales.

Injured WI firefighters recovering (Mar 9, 2010)
Mar. 9--DELAVAN TOWNSHIP -- Most of the 10 firefighters injured Friday while fighting a fire at Mulligan's Sports Pub and Grill are out of the hospital and back at work, officials said Monday.

Haybarn, shed destroyed in fire (Mar 10, 2010)
FIREFIGHTERS battled in vain to save a burning haybarn near Balclutha yesterday.

BRIEF: Apartment fire started by accident, exact cause unknown (Mar 10, 2010)
Mar. 10--A two-alarm fire that damaged a Tulsa apartment complex Tuesday morning began by accident, officials said Wednesday.

Apartment blaze displaces residents: The flames spread into some hard-to-reach areas. (Mar 10, 2010)
Mar. 10--A two-alarm fire swept through a Tulsa apartment building Tuesday morning, displacing about 20 tenants and keeping firefighters occupied for several hours.

Suspicious condominium fire under investigation (Mar 10, 2010)
Mar. 10--MANATEE -- Fire officials are asking for the public's help in solving a case where someone intentionally set fire to a condo Tuesday afternoon.

Tough time for fire fighters (Mar 10, 2010)
MYSORE: The recent fire tragedy in Gayathripuram that claimed a youth's life has raised serious concern about the city's fire safety.

Up in smoke: Losing fund could hurt rural departments (Mar 10, 2010)
Mar. 10--MANKATO -- Firefighters throughout the state are continuing their effort to douse a proposal that would help balance the state budget with money that's currently dedicated to firefighter training.

Trafalgar East gets deadline ; Warwick (Mar 10, 2010)
Apartment owner has 120 days to bring complex into compliance with fire codes

No news on cause of general store blaze (Mar 7, 2010)
Mar. 7--SAN MARCOS -- The remains of the Amkon General Store on S. LBJ Drive have been a blackened eyesore for months now.

Mill fire causes little damage (Mar 10, 2010)
EAST MILLINOCKET - A spark from a wire holding together a bale of recycled newsprint might have started a fire that destroyed as many as 35 bales at the Katahdin Paper Co. LLC mill this weekend, firefighters said Tuesday.

Man posing as a firefighter prompts warning in Portsmouth (Mar 10, 2010)
The fire department warned residents Tuesday about a man who recently posed as a firefighter making safety inspections and tried to enter at least one home in the Highland-Biltmore neighborhood.

BRIEF: Tucson man wounded in police standoff booked into jail (Mar 10, 2010)
Mar. 10--A man shot by police during an armed standoff last week has been released from the hospital and booked into the Pima County jail, authorities said.

Two more cars set on fire in York County (Mar 10, 2010)
Mar. 10--Charlotte Bush was angry and bewildered after spending a restless morning dealing with the aftermath of someone torching a car parked at her family's home in Windsor Township.

Suspect in meth fire faces charge of felony murder (Mar 9, 2010)
Police arrested a man on a felony murder warrant Monday in the death of another man who was burned in an October meth-lab fire.

Mill fire causes little damage: Blaze in December more devastating (Mar 10, 2010)
Mar. 10--EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine -- A spark from a wire holding together a bale of recycled newsprint might have started a fire that destroyed as many as 35 bales at the Katahdin Paper Co. LLC mill this weekend, firefighters said Tuesday.

Dry weather has become a burning issue for firefighters ; Services acrossWales on alert as lack of rain looks set to continue (Mar 10, 2010)
THE driest start to March inWales for 34 years is fuelling a spate of grass blazes that has left fire services stretched to breaking point.

SPANAWAY: Woman, 81, critically injured in house fire (Mar 10, 2010)
Mar. 10--The Pierce County Fire Marshal's Office is investigating an early-morning house fire that critically injured a Spanaway woman.

Warning after grass fires hit beauty spot (Mar 9, 2010)
WELSH firefighters are warning people to be careful in the countryside after a spate of major grass fires.

Blaze underscores region's high fire risk (Mar 10, 2010)
A forest fire near Christchurch threatened the power supply to the upper South Island.

Malicious hill fires will 'end in the loss of life' (Mar 10, 2010)
IT'S only a matter of time until a life is lost -- unless the spate of malicious fires spreading over the Belfast hills is halted.