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Baby The Cat Saves Illinois Family From House Fire, Now Missing Post Chronicle 19.01.2010 | |
 Thai prosecutors on Wednesday indicted five individuals and 2 companies involved in a Bangkok pub blaze that killed 66 New Years' Eve party-goers. |  A young couple in Wonder Lake, IL, expecting twins in just two short months, are grateful to be alive after their cat "Baby" saved them and the family dog when a fire started in their home. |
Tour Bus Bursts Into Flames In PattayaWirrapun Pattaya Daily News 31.12.2009 | Russian nightclub fire kills at least 106MANSUR MIROVALEV AP 06.12.2009 |
 Police Lieutenant Colonel Anan Thamachaikul (Pattaya police investigator) received a report at 8:45am on Wednesday that a bus was on fire in front of the Nong Yai temple on the way to Bangkok. It was explained that the incident had occurred at the 145km mark of the Sukhumvit Road. A team of police, rescue officers from the Sawang Boriboon Foundation and two Pattaya Fire Trucks rushed to the scene to investigate. |  PERM, Russia — President Dmitry Medvedev demanded that Russia tighten its notoriously lax fire codes Saturday after the deadliest blaze since the Soviet era killed at least 106 people celebrating in a nightclub with a decorative twig ceiling and single exit. |
Major fire at Indian oil depot, 6 killed, 150 injured Monsters and Critics 30.10.2009 | Huge fire kills 37 at Kazakhstan drug rehab centreNadezhda Plyaskina AFP 14.09.2009 |
 New Delhi - A huge fire engulfed an oil depot in India's north-western state of Rajasthan Friday, leaving six people dead and nearly 150 injured, while authorities evacuated an estimated 500,000 people from the area, media reports said. |  TALDYKORGAN, Kazakhstan — Thirty-seven people were killed Sunday when a fire ripped through a decrepit drugs treatment facility in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, emergency officials said. |
Australia's fire system 'flawed'Nick Bryant BBC News 18.08.2009 | Texas chemical fire forces evacuation of 72,000 AFP 31.07.2009 |
 An official investigation into Australia's wildfires earlier this year has called for sweeping changes to the warning system and evacuation policy. |  CHICAGO — A fire at a chemical plant has forced the evacuation of a Texas town of 72,000 people after it released a massive plume of toxic orange smoke that could be seen for miles, officials said. |
Fire crews under attack over London tower block blaze that killed sixAlexandra Topping The Guardian 06.07.2009 | 6 die in London high-rise fire 04.07.2009 |
 A man whose wife and two children died in the fire that swept through a London tower block on Friday has criticised the emergency services for taking two and a half hours to reach his family. Another resident has also claimed the fire brigade did not immediately use their ladders to reach those trapped in flats. |  Six people were killed, including three children, when a fire broke out in a high-rise apartment building in south London on Friday afternoon, officials said. |
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