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  • 5
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    ago

    Wildfire burns homes and forces evacuations near Gardnerville, Nev.

    Photos by Cathleen Allison / AP

    Firefighters battle a wildfire south of Gardnerville, Nev. On May 22, 2012. The fast-moving blaze near the Nevada-California line destroyed at least two homes on Tuesday as it forced evacuations and sent up huge plumes of black smoke, witnesses said.

    Firefighters battle a wildfire south of Gardnerville, Nev., on Tuesday.

    The Record-Courier reports:

    Firefighters are battling a wildfire that is threatening more than 100 homes in the southern Douglas County Community of Topaz Ranch Estates.

    The fire was reported at 1:39 p.m. as burning in heavy fuel between homes. Structures were confirmed burning.

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  • 5
    days
    ago

    Manila fire victims cram into temporary shelter

    Noel Celis / AFP - Getty Images

    Victims of a fire rest at a relief complex in Manila on May 18. Some 1300 families temporarily live at the sports complex after a huge fire engulfed a shanty town destroying homes on May 11.

    Pat Roque / AP

    A government staff carries bowls of cooked food for distribution to the May 11 fire victims during a feeding program inside a sports gymnasium on May 18 in Manila, Philippines. Some one thousand fire victims from a squatter colony are temporarily housed at the sports gymnasium to receive relief items and free meals.

    Last week thousands of families were left homeless after a huge fire swept through a shantytown in Manila, Philippines. The next day residents returned to their devastated homes to try and salvage what they could. The thousands of victims are now living in temporary housing provided by the government.

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  • 7
    days
    ago

    Fire tears through Bangladesh slum

    Andrew Biraj / Reuters

    A man salvages his belongings after a fire in a slum at Shyamoli in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, on May 16, 2012.

    By David R Arnott, msnbc.com

    At least 10 people were injured, including a firefighter who sustained burns, and more than 150 shanties were burned down as a blaze swept through a Dhaka slum, Reuters reports. The local fire department said the cause of the blaze had yet to be ascertained.

    Bangladeshi photographer Abir Abdullah, who took the photo below, has been documenting the havoc created by Dhaka's frequent fires for several years. He spoke to The New York Times about the project last month.

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    Abir Abdullah / EPA

    A woman cries holding her child after she lost her shanty house in the fire.

    Munir Uz Zaman / AFP - Getty Images

    Firefighters work to control the blaze.

     

    2 comments

    Thay have learned America will bend over easy, and after 20 catastrophes in 7 years you would think someone would say lets pack up and move from this place i've got a bad feeling about this location???? And no pressure in fire hose.Duah.

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  • 12
    May
    2012
    5:24pm, EDT

    Thousands left homeless by shantytown fire in Philippines

    Dondi Tawatao / Getty Images Contributor

    Residents try to salvage recyclable materials from what used to be houses in the aftermath of a massive fire that engulfed hundreds of makeshift homes in a shanty town community in the Tondo district of Manila, Philippines, May 12.

    Some 5,400 people were left homeless by a fire that swept through an island shantytown in Manila, Philippines, on Friday. Many returned to the scene Saturday to try to recover belongings.

    During the fire, at least 100 people were plucked from the waters thick with ash and debris, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported.

    Amazingly no deaths were reported, though at least five people were injured.

    Rouelle Umali / Zuma Press

    A resident searches underwater for any reusable materials from the remains of his home.

    Jay Directo / AFP - Getty Images

    Residents search for usable items at the site of a fire in a shanty town in Manila.

    Dondi Tawatao / Getty Images Contributor

    Residents try to salvage recyclable materials on what used to be houses in the aftermath of a massive fire.

     

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    171 comments

    Take a long hard look - if the corporations have their way this is the future of America.

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  • 11
    May
    2012
    10:03am, EDT

    Flames engulf Manila shanty town, leaving thousands homeless

    Cheryl Ravelo / Reuters

    Residents untie the hose of a cement mixer to douse water on a fire engulfing houses at a slum community in Manila on May 11. At least 1000 houses were razed in the fire, the cause of which is yet unknown, leaving 5000 families homeless, local media reported.

    Cheryl Ravelo / Reuters

    Residents paddle their makeshift boat to safety as fire engulfs houses at a slum community in Manila on May 11.

    Francis R. Malasig / EPA

    Filipino residents flee from a fire at a shanty town in Manila, Philippines, May 11. According to initial reports from fire investigators, around 5,000 residents lost their houses built on top of a breakwater at Port of Manila dock area. Chief Inspector Bonifacio Carta of the Manila Fire Department said that they coordinated with the Philippine Coast Guard and asked for additional fire boats to support in controlling the blaze.

    Pat Roque / AP

    A man floats in the water with some of his belongings as his neighborhood is engulfed in fire on May 11 in a slum area in Manila, Philippines. Officials say the fire that swept through a sprawling squatters' colony on Manila Bay's rim has left two people missing and some 10,000 others homeless.

    Francis R. Malasig / EPA

    Filipino residents are seen during a fire at a shanty town in Manila, Philippines, on May 11. According to initial reports from fire investigators, around 5,000 residents lost their houses built on top of a breakwater at Port of Manila dock area. Chief Inspector Bonifacio Carta of the Manila Fire Department said that they coordinated with the Philippine Coast Guard and asked for additional fire boats to support in controlling the blaze.

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    5 comments

    HAHAHAHA. Thus more lives return to the soul stream guided to Terra the resting place of all souls. these fools caused thei own demise.

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  • 7
    May
    2012
    9:45am, EDT

    75 years on, Hindenburg airship disaster still shocks

    NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images

    The zeppelin Hindenburg flies over Manhattan, April 1, 1936, a year before its fiery demise.

    NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images

    The Hindenburg dirigible attempting to land at Lakehurst, N.J. May 9, 1936, a year before the disaster.

    On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg airship burst into flames while attempting to land in Lakehurst, N.J. Of the 97 people on board, 35 were killed, and one person on the ground died as well. According to the AP:

    Slideshow: The Hindenburg disaster

    A look back at the historic airship and its demise.

    Launch slideshow

    The huge airship — more than three times longer than a Boeing 747 — was engulfed in flames and sank to the ground in less than a minute. Photographers and newsreel crews on hand for the landing captured the scene, and a shocked radio station broadcaster recorded the often replayed phrase “Oh, the humanity and all the passengers!”

    The 804-foot-long Hindenburg was cutting-edge technology, with its fabric-covered, metal frame held aloft by more than 7 million cubic feet of lighter-than-air hydrogen. Flammable hydrogen had to be used because of a U.S. embargo on nonflammable helium.

    It was “the Concorde of its day back in 1936 and ’37,” said Carl Jablonski, president of the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society. But after the fire, he said, it would be called the “Titanic of the sky.”

    Continue reading.

     

    According to Asbury Park Press:

    “The Hindenburg cut the time in half of the fastest ocean liner,” said Robert Buchanan of Waretown, the last known surviving member of the civilian landing crew that handled mooring lines for the airship.

    “I find it hard to explain how horrible it was,” Buchanan told the audience. “The flames were entirely surrounding — you couldn’t see the sky, and you knew the ship was falling on you.”

    Continue reading.

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    The Hindenburg in flames on its arrival at Lakehurst, New Jersey May 6, 1937.

    The crash of the Hindenburg took only 34 seconds, but it changed lives forever as passengers and ground crew tried to escape its massive flames.

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    In viewing these photo's, I find it amazing that people on board actually lived through that.

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  • 20
    Apr
    2012
    8:08am, EDT

    Noel Celis / AFP - Getty Images

    Firemen extinguish a fire at an informal settlers' housing area in Manila, Philippines, on April 20, 2012. Around 150 families from an informal settlement area lost their homes. Nobody was reported killed in the incident, according to local authorities.

    Philippines fire destroys homes in impoverished district

    See more images related to Filipino housing issues on PhotoBlog.

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  • 16
    Apr
    2012
    11:14am, EDT

    Deadly house fire in Philadelphia leaves four dead, including two children

    Matt Rourke / AP

    Debra Forrest, right, is consoled in the aftermath of a fire that claimed family members' lives, April 16, in Philadelphia. Officials say the early morning house fire claimed the lives of four people, including two children.

    Two brothers, ages two and four, died alongside their mother and grandfather when a fire broke out in their home today in the early morning hours. Though firefighters were able to get the blaze under control in about 30 minutes, it wasn't fast enough to save the lives of the family. Firefighters found no evidence of a working fire alarm in the home, which might have warned them in time to escape. The boys' father apparently tried to rescue them when he returned home from work, but was beaten back by the intense flames.

    More about the fatal fire from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

    Matt Rourke / AP

    Firefighters work the scene of a deadly row house fire, April 16, in Philadelphia.

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  • 13
    Apr
    2012
    11:08am, EDT

    Predawn fire engulfs Georgia condos

    John Spink / Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP

    Firemen work at the scene of a condominium complex fire early on April 13, in south DeKalb County in Georgia.

    John Spink / Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP

    Firemen work at the scene of a condominium complex fire on April 13, in south DeKalb County.

    John Spink / Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP

    Firemen work at the scene of a condominium complex fire early on April 13, in south DeKalb County in Georgia.

    Several residents were injured in the predawn fire at a condominium complex. DeKalb fire Deputy Chief Norman Augustin told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that three people were taken to a local hospital, two with minor burns and one with “major lacerations.”  The cause of the fire, which heavily damaged six of the eight units in the building, has not been determined.

    Read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's full story.

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    Hmmm... As my late Assistant Fire Chief would have said, "Now that was a real piss-cutter of a fire."

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  • 12
    Apr
    2012
    5:32am, EDT

    Michael Bocchieri / Getty Images

    A firefighter helps battle a brush fire in the Meadowlands near Metlife Stadium on April 11, 2012 in Carlstadt, New Jersey. Fire departments from around the area were on hand to bring under control one of many brush fires that have broken out in New Jersey and New York. Dry conditions, low humidity and strong winds are some of the culprits to the spreading fires.

    Firefighters respond to brush fire in Carlstadt, New Jersey

    Read more: 'Perfect recipe' for wildfires as season starts early

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    God bless our firefighters.

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  • 9
    Apr
    2012
    1:19am, EDT

    Mike Meadows / AP

    Firefighters use foam to extinguish a gasoline tanker fire in Glendale, Calif., Saturday, April 7.

    Firefighters extinguish tanker blaze on California freeway

    The California Highway Patrol reopened the eastbound 134 Freeway near where the gasoline tanker truck caught fire in a crash with a Honda sedan that sent flames and black smoke shooting into the air. Firefighters say about 6,000 gallons of fuel burned.

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    i sow the image of "lucifer" on the top of fire , people need to consentrated the fire on the top not only the fire? people god lucifer was so very happy in that event , remember this, a lot of people in the world are waiting thier spirit in the heaven, yes heaven of lucifer. every thing will be alr …

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  • 2
    Apr
    2012
    3:33pm, EDT

    Sergey Ponomarev / AP

    Smoke and flame rises from the top of the Federation Tower in the Moscow City business compound in downtown Moscow on April 2, 2012.

    Moscow skyscraper in flames

    RT.com reports:

    Fire is engulfing Moscow’s Federation Tower – a skyscraper under construction which is set to become Europe’s tallest building. About 300 square meters are ablaze; people have been evacuated from the building, in the city’s business center.

    The top floor is nearly completely ablaze, with the fire smoothing out and then bursting again. The wind in lower floors is facilitating the fire’s expansion. The huge image boards on the skyscraper’s walls have caught fire and threaten neighboring buildings. The flames can be seen several miles away.

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