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UNITED KINGDOM (Reuters) – Residents from across London have sprung into action to help survivors of a massive apartment building fire, offering clothes, blankets, food and many other daily supplies. In the Latymer neighborhood a few hundred meters away from the torched building, a relief center has been set up and many Londoners have come with bags and even whole shopping carts of food, water and clothes, offering much-needed help to the victims. Some people […]
SALINAS CRUZ, Mexico (Reuters) – A major fire broke out at Mexican state oil producer Pemex’s Salina Cruz refinery on Wednesday (June 14) after a crude spill, injuring nine people and extending the hut down of the plant into a second day, the company said. The blaze began in the pump house of Salina Cruz, Mexico’s largest refinery, in the morning, and the company was working to put it out, a Pemex spokesperson said. A Pemex spokesperson said […]
Six people were confirmed dead in a massive fire that engulfed a London tower block before dawn on Wednesday and the number is expected to rise, police said. “I can confirm six fatalities at this time but this figure is likely to rise during what will be a complex recovery operation over a number of days,” police commander Stuart Cundy said in a statement. London’s fire commissioner earlier said there have been some fatalities in the […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A lot of people” are still unaccounted for after a massive blaze in a London tower block, and fire crews only managed to reach the 12th floor at the height of the fire, mayor Sadiq Khan said on Wednesday. “A lot of people are unaccounted for. Some of them could have found safe refuges in the homes of their neighbours or their friends,” Khan told Sky News television as smoke […]
by Alice Ritchie / Fayruz Rajpar Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – “A number” of people have been killed in a massive fire in a west London apartment block on Wednesday, London Fire Brigade chief Dany Cotton told reporters at the scene. “There have been a number of fatalities. I cannot confirm the number at this time due to the size and complexity of the building,” Cotton said. The massive fire ripped through the 27-storey apartment block […]
KNYSNA, South Africa (Reuters) – Fires in the countryside east of Cape Town forced evacuations, including in the popular resort town of Knysna, on Wednesday (June 7), local media reported. Over two dozen fires were reported in the area, which are home to dense forests, providing plenty of fuel for the spread of wild fires. A video posted to a social media website showed a building in Knysna burning while flames engulfed the hillsides around […]
(Eagle News) — The management of the hotel where police said 36 people were killed after a deranged armed man who tried to rob the casino there set furniture and other items on fire, then killed himself, issued a statement on Friday, neither admitting nor denying any security lapses on their part. “Security lapses? We had an armed intruder who entered into the property, he fired his firearm, he was in combat attire. Security inside the premises do […]
Stockton, United States (Reuters) – A large fire at a wood pallet yard in Stockton, California, was threatening some homes and gutted several vehicles in a residential neighborhood on Thursday (May 25). Aerial video from the local NBC News affiliate showed portions of the pallet yard ablaze as fire crews worked to battle the fire which burned adjacent to a residential neighborhood. The affiliate said the four-alarm fire prompted some evacuations in downtown Stockton and […]
PAMPANGA, Philippines (Reuters)– A fire broke out at a Japanese-owned tire factory in the northern Philippine province of Pampanga on Sunday (May 14). Around 900 workers at the Yokohama Tire Philippines Inc. factory were evacuated after the fire was spotted around 3 PM local time (0700 GMT). The fire lasted for three hours. Authorities have yet to find its cause. No casualties or losses have been reported, but the factory’s operation remained suspended on Monday (May 15). The […]
(AFP) — Looters mobbed a deadly slum fire in Manila on Tuesday, pulling roofing sheets and electric wire from singed homes as firemen scrambled to contain the blaze. Riot police surrounded the Isla Puting Bato shantytown at Manila’s port area after being summoned by firemen who struggled to reach burning homes accessible only through narrow alleys that were swarmed by residents as well as scavengers. An AFP photographer saw about 100 people, most of them men, engaged […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Nuclear-armed North Korea on Wednesday fired a suspected missile into the Sea of Japan, South Korea’s defense ministry said. “North Korea fired an unidentified projectile into the Sea of Japan this morning from (the eastern port of) Sinpo,” the ministry said in a statement. If confirmed to be a missile, it would be the latest such launch by Pyongyang and will fuel international concerns about the isolated regime’s military ambitions. It […]
ASUNCION, Paraguay (Reuters) — Protesters stormed Paraguay’s Congress building and set it on fire on Friday (March 31) amid violent demonstrations over a secret Senate vote earlier in the day to approve a bill that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election. The Senate voted earlier on Friday during a special session in a closed office in Congress rather than on the Senate floor. Twenty-five lawmakers voted for the measure, two more than […]
