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Hong Kong 42-Story Skyscraper Engulfed In Flames

Hong Kong 42-Story Skyscraper Engulfed In Flames

Hong Kong, China: The fire broke out after midnight in Tsim Sha Tsui at the site of an under-construction skyscraper in one of the city's shopping districts. Embers and burning debris rained down on the streets below as firefighters attempted to control the fire. The...

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London Fire Brigade Tackles Seventh Floor Apartment Fire

London Fire Brigade Tackles Seventh Floor Apartment Fire

  Eighty London Fire Brigade firefighters and 12 apparatus tackled an apartment fire on Barking Road in Canning Town Friday morning. Three apartments in the residential block were damaged by the residential fire, which started on the seventh  floor at about 9...

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Chicago High-Rise Fire Kills One, Injures Eight

Chicago High-Rise Fire Kills One, Injures Eight

  Deanese Williams-Harris, Adriana Pérez - Chicago Tribune One person is dead and several victims were injured Wednesday in an extra-alarm fire at a high-rise building in the Kenwood neighborhood that burned through several floors of the building and sent debris...

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Grenfell Firefighters Facing Elevated Cancer Rates

Grenfell Firefighters Facing Elevated Cancer Rates

Firefighters who battled the Grenfell high-rise fire in 2017 are being diagnosed with cancer at an alarming rate. Britain's Daily Mirror reports that roughly a dozen firefighters, some as young as 40, have been diagnosed with cancers such as leukemia and colon...

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