TV fire image has viewer calling for help Posted: 5 months ago by kakana
Zurich authorities say police and firefighters were called to the house of an elderly woman early Thursday after she reported her television set was burning.
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Satellite Image of Georgia Fire Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
According to reports from the Southern Area Coordination Center, the Sweat Farm Road Fire in southern Georgia exploded from 1,000 acres to more than 20,000 acres in less than 24 hours between April 16 and 17, 2007. Strong winds whipped the blaze into 100-foot flames, while individual trees went up like torches.
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Hollywood Hills Fire Contained - Various Videos Posted: 3 years ago by indierockcafe
Watch a number of videos from a fire that broke out earlier today in the Hollywood Hills near Griffith Park and the famed Hollywood sign.
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Hero dog protects kittens from house fire Posted: 1 year ago by suebe
A dog was hailed as a hero on Sunday after it risked its life to save a litter of newborn kittens from a house fire, rescuers said. Fire fighters, who revived the dog, said he refused to leave the building and was found by them alongside the litter of kittens, despite thick smoke.
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TN fire chief charged with arson Posted: 3 years ago by civicracer18c1
I guess when you're a firefighter in a small town you have to start your own fires.
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Fire truck falls apart while responding to fire Posted: 2 years ago by TraumaMamma
A fire truck responding to a house fire on Olive Street in Elyria early this morning lost its rear axle and gas tank on Broad Street near East Bridge .
The Firefighters on the truck were all able to escape without injury.
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Man Burns Dog, Dog Burns House, House Burns Man Posted: 9 months ago by suebe
After an angry boyfriend doused a Pomeranian puppy with fuel and set it on fire Tuesday night, the frantic dog ran around the house, igniting spilled fuel, setting the house ablaze and burning the man and woman.
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Conn. bride rescues family from house fire Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
A Connecticut family was saved from a house fire by a newlywed who rushed inside through thick smoke while wearing her wedding gown.
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Teen admits setting friend's house on fire Posted: 1 year ago by muppet
Police say she set the house on fire to cover up the theft of the family's credit card.
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Idaho man accused of setting his wife on fire Posted: 2 years ago by muppet
According to court documents, the woman told police that Hart held her against her will, threatened her with a knife, choked her, threw lighter fluid on her and lit her on fire. He then lit the couple’s bed on fire, destroying some of her personal belongings.
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California fire called arson Posted: 2 years ago by Bornbad
the California Department of Forestry will announce shortly that the massive Santiago Canyon Fire - which has caused an estimated $10 million in damage - is being officially declared an arson.
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Home at center of 50 Cent lawsuit destroyed by fire Posted: 1 year ago by bevissimo
Or How to lose a lawsuit and the b---- still don't get da crib.
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - Authorities say six people are hospitalized after a "suspicious" fire burned down a multimillion-dollar Long Island home owned by Grammy-nominated rapper 50 Cent.
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Man set house on fire while trying to kill a spider with a lighter Posted: 7 months ago by kakana
Three fire engines raced to the scene in Portsmouth, Hants, and found the man trying to put out the flames with a garden hose.
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Giant knickers put out house fire Posted: 2 years ago by misswinkle
Jenny Marsey's size 18-20 cotton pants were a lifesaver when they were grabbed to cover a frying pan fire at her home in Meryl Gardens, Hartlepool, Teesside.
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Fire service bans white men from open days Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
White men have been banned from fire brigade recruitment sessions because bosses want to hit their diversity targets. After all, better your house should burn down than not to have the an insufficient number of left-handed lesbian Lithuanians as firefighters.
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Content-Aware Image Sizing Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Dr. Ariel Shamir demonstrates at SIGGRAPH an application that resizes images in such a way that the content of the image is preserved intelligently. When you resize the image, it will keep the key elements of the photo in sensible places while filling in less important areas.
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Firefighters brace for super fire Posted: 3 years ago by teaya21
Firefighters and military from around Australia and New Zealand have been called in to help battle 18 different fires raging across Victoria before windy weekend conditions threaten to combine bushfires into a single conflagration.
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Image Mosaic Generator Posted: 3 years ago by TheStep
Upload a photo, get a mosaic comprising of images from Flickr.
See what it made of the Plime Logo!
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Mice Start Fire In Cat Sanctuary Posted: 11 months ago by pocksucket
A Fire Marshall report indicates that it was mice or rats that chewed through an electrical cable starting a fire at a Toronto animal shelter.
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Wasabi Silent Fire Alarm scents-ses fire, awakens the deaf Posted: 2 years ago by Mitzuzake
Wasabi, or Japanese Horseradish, has a particularly pungent taste and scent. Now researchers in Japan are using Wasabi's overpowering odor in a new type of smoke detector / fire alarm that wakes the deaf through scent instead of sound.
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Man awakes with hair on fire, saves family from house fire Posted: 2 years ago by muppet
A family was able to escape a burning house, without any functioning smoke detectors, because their son woke up with his hair on fire.
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