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Firefighters from Pottsville Fire Department and surrounding communities battled a second alarm blaze involving entrapment of six victims. Pottsville Fire Department responded at 11:55 PM Sunday, May 13, 2013 to a report of a house fire with entrapment at 231 Pierce Street in the City of Pottsville. Schuylkill County 9-1-1 Transmitted Box 37 for the [...]

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Scott and Robin Spivey had a sinking feeling that something was wrong with their home when cracks began snaking across their walls in March. Within two weeks their property dropped 10 feet below the street. Scott Spivey’s home on Lancaster Road in the Lakeside Heights subdivision in north Lakeport, California, was one of the first [...]

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House fire in Manistee, Michigan in the 200 block of St. Mary’s Parkway, Manistee.. Manistee firefighters responded about 9:00 p.m. Sunday, April 29, 2013 to the 200 block of St. Mary’s Parkway in Manistee about four blocks from the Lake Michigan shore. (Yes sunset is about 9:00 p.m. in late April.) Flashover at about 1:40 [...]

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There were no major injuries when a small helicopter crashed on a busy street in downtown Honolulu. The chopper damaged a parked car. Honolulu firefighters responded about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday to the crash of a small helicopter on Fort Street between Kukui Street and Beretania Street. The Robinson R22 crashed on top of a sedan [...]

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Three-Alarm Apartment Complex Fire Tampa, Florida. Hillsborough County Fire Rescue about 11:20 a.m. Wednesday April 24, 2013 responded to an apartment building fire involving a two-story building at 8302 Crystal Harbour Drive. Six units were destroyed, and 14 units were damaged. The fire is the second fire at the Harbour Walk Apartments this year. In [...]

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Passer by video captured the limousine that burst into flames on the San Mateo-Hayward bridge Saturday night, killing five women. The driver and four other passengers survived. Monday, authorities said the vehicle had too many passengers. Smoke starting coming out of the rear of the limousine that was traveling westbound on the San Mateo Bridge, [...]

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VIDEO: Heavy fire at the rear of a two-story wood frame house with all hands working on arrival. Bethpage firefighters respond about 2:07 a.m. on April 22, 2013 to a house fire on Cambridge Avenue, Bethpage, New York. Fire conditions existed throughout the first floor — extending into the second floor. Bethpage is a hamlet [...]

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A man shot himself about 1:35 p.m. with AR-15 rifle at Bush International Airport in Houston in the lobby of Terminal B. #Breaking News Scene outside the Bush Airport Terminal B. Multiple FPA of shots fired inside the terminal.twitpic.com/cnnw7t — MyFoxHouston.com (@MyFoxHouston) May 2, 2013 Houston Police Homicide Division investigators responding to the scene. Developing [...]

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VIDEO: National Air Cargo Boeing 747 on takeoff with a high pitch rolls to the left, corrects, yaws to the right, and then rolls to the right and crashes. A civilian cargo aircraft crashed at Bagram Air Field near the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, killing all seven people aboard. The plane came down shortly [...]

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FBI agents investigating the Boston Marathon bombings have visited the Rhode Island home of dead suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s in-laws and carried away several bags. Katherine Russell has been staying with her parents, as federal investigators carried away several bags from the house in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Her attorney Amato DeLuca says she’s doing everything [...]

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