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Category: Fires and Firefighters
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How Espace Aygo Transformed a Derelict Brussels Townhouse Into a D.I.Y. Wonderland
How a collective of artists turned a crumbling Brussels building into their own creative playground.
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Silicon Valley Wants to Fight Fires With Fire
How some high-tech entrepreneurs are trying to use new forms of technology to solve the problem of mega-wildfires in the age of climate change.
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Silicon Valley Wants to Fight Fires With Fire
How some high-tech entrepreneurs are trying to use new forms of technology to solve the problem of mega-wildfires in the age of climate change.
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‘A League of Their Own’ Grandstand Destroyed in Fire
The field and wooden grandstand in Ontario, Calif., were the backdrop for the 1992 movie about a women’s baseball league.
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Jack Russell, Great White Singer and Survivor of Nightclub Fire, Dies at 63
At a show in 2003 with his “Jack Russell’s Great White,” a pyrotechnics display ignited a fire that killed 100 people, including the band’s guitarist.
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Samsung Recalls 1 Million Stoves That Started 250 Fires and Killed Pets
Thirty models of Samsung stoves were part of the recall over fires started by accidental contact.
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Explosion Reported at Jose Cuervo Tequila Factory in Mexico
The explosion occurred on Tuesday in the city of Tequila, near Guadalajara. The scale of the damage was not immediately clear.
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Tech Outage Hits 911 Lines in Alaska and Arizona
Emergency call lines were operating in most major cities, but the authorities in Oregon, Alaska and Arizona said some of their systems had been hit by the outage.
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To Protect Against Wildfires, Insurers Try to Change Construction Standards
Property insurers are trying to force changes in construction standards that they say are necessary to protect against wildfires.
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She Lost Her Home in the 2017 Atlas Fire in Napa. Then She Built Something ‘Different.’
The fire-resistant house she built in Napa, Calif., with the insurance money was “so different — and I like different.”