http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/fire/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:45:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418411/posts Pregnancy Center in Arizona Severely Burned in Apparent Arson Attack Whiteriver, AZ -- A pregnancy center in rural eastern Arizona that serves a predominantly native American population was severely burned in what appears to be an arson attack. The Living Hope Women's Center clinic has closed indefinitely as a result of a fire that gutted a portion of the building on December 20. http://www.LifeNews.com/state4688.html LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418411/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:45:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417815/posts I haven’t written here in a year. I’ve been busy with life, I’m getting ready for retirement and want to cruise in a boat for a few years. So, I’ve spent time with my family, my wife and we’ve been working on our plans. But recently I’ve been more and more upset at the lack of caring on the part of many, if not all of the the members of Congress. Both the House and the Senate. The partisan politics of these two political bodies have come recently under fire by both sides and when this past summer “Tea Parties”... Reality Check http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417815/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:09:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417689/posts An 11-year-old Florida girl and her 15-year-old boyfriend are accused of plotting to kill the girl's mother by setting her bedroom on fire while the woman slept, Florida authorities said Wednesday. Samantha Broadhead and Jack Ault have been charged with attempted murder and arson after the fire Tuesday in Clearwater — about 20 miles west of Tampa on Florida's Gulf Coast — MyFoxTampa.com reported. Clearwater Police Department detectives say the young couple poured gasoline on Nancy Broadhead's bedroom floor and bed, and then set the room aflame. Police say the pair escaped in the mother's 2007 Ford Focus. It was... Foxnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417689/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:18:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415371/posts Chimps remain cool under fire, possessing a near human ability to predict how wildfires spread and react accordingly. This newfound capability of chimpanzees to understand flames might shed light on when and how our distant ancestors first learned to control fire, scientists now suggest. Primatologist Jill Pruetz at Iowa State University in Ames was observing savanna chimpanzees in Senegal in 2006 as people were setting wildfires, an annual tradition that clears land and aids hunting. Most areas within the chimpanzees' home range are burned to some degree. "It was the end of the dry season, so the fires burn so... livescience http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415371/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:46:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414131/posts Inside a secured room at the Eagan Police headquarters is the charred and shredded evidence of a near fatal crime. There's not much left of a winter jacket, worn by a 33-year-old St. Paul man. The alleged copper thief was burned by 69,000 volts of electricity, creating a flash of light in the early morning sky. "There were also calls of a large flash of light seen from several miles away and a large boom," Eagan Officer Danielle Anselment said. Police and paramedics responded to several 911 calls of a man who was on fire at the Dakota Electric power... WCCO.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414131/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:11:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411035/posts Israel's new rocket defense system has proven a hit-to-kill capability. Officials said Israel's Iron Dome has achieved the ability to strike incoming short-range missiles and rockets. They said the Iron Dome demonstrated this during its first live fire test in mid-2009. "They met head on," Defense Minister Ehud Barak said. In a Nov. 17 address to the International Aerospace Conference and Exhibition-Israel, Barak said Iron Dome exceeded all expectations. He said the assessment within the Defense Ministry and military had been that the interceptor would explode 10 meters from the incoming missile. World Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411035/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:20:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408782/posts Brooke masters of the FT reports that Pension fund sues Goldman board: A pension fund for fire and police officers has sued the board of Goldman Sachs, seeking to stop the investment bank from paying out billions of dollars in bonuses to the bank's staff, writes Brooke Masters in London. Lawyers representing the Security Police and Fire Professionals of America Retirement Fund argue that the board has "abdicated" its responsibility to shareholders and "blindly "rewarded" executives for "corporate performance that has absolutely nothing to do with the skill of the company's employees". The lawsuit, filed in New York late on... Zero Hedge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408782/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:31:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407684/posts Link only (that's a shame) - Tips on protecting against Christmas tree fires http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407684/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:13:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406350/posts In this age of political correctness, a college student's best friend is FIRE -- the Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Since 1999, FIRE has safeguarded the civil rights of students across the ideological spectrum -- winning victories at 121 colleges and universities, bringing an end to 81 unconstitutional or repressive policies, and benefiting 2.7 million students. Now, FIRE is riding to the rescue of students at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where a heavy-handed attempt at thought control is underway. The Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group of the U's College of Education and Human Development has... Minneapolis Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406350/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:43:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403175/posts NEW HAVEN — Attorneys for a group of black city firefighters Monday filed a motion asking a federal court to halt the promotion of 10 other firefighters (including four minorities) who scored well enough on 2003 exams to be promoted. The 10 firefighters’ advancements were approved Friday by the Board of Fire Commissioners, just three days after the board ratified the promotions of 14 other firefighters (all but one of them white) mandated by the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Ricci v. DeStefano. The 10 in question scored high enough on the test to be promoted, but weren’t plaintiffs with... New Haven Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403175/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 21:48:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2402787/posts Here is video showing a car bursting into flames at a Versailles, Kentucky gas station. The driver was reportedly using his cell phone as he pumped gas, and had left his engine running. Authorities said that static electricity caused the fire. No one was hurt, and no explosion happened even though both the car and the gas pump caught on fire. . . . (VIDEO) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2402787/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:02:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394737/posts A retired Minneapolis police sergeant leaped onto a burning boat in a Florida harbor north of Fort Myers, picked up and moved one badly injured woman, and then another, onto other boats, then got off the distressed vessel seconds before it was rocked by the second of two explosions. Just as Harry Baltzer finished moving the two women from the blazing boat last Friday in an Englewood, Fla., gated community, he could sense that time was running short. "I put one foot on one bow, and I had my other foot on the other bow," said Baltzer, who turns 68... StarTribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394737/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:41:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380837/posts Earlier this week, Huntington Mayor Steve Updike held a press conference relaying information of coming citywide layoffs. The only position, at that date, to be announced in the layoff was the Mayor's secretary. He went on to say that six more layoffs were expected this week. Yesterday it was announce that...... Huntington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380837/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:31:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380275/posts HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - More than 25 NATO and Afghan troops were wounded during a search Friday for two missing U.S. paratroopers in western Afghanistan, the NATO-led force said. The Taliban said the missing two missing soldiers were dead and it had recovered their bodies. SwissInfo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380275/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:50:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379136/posts A couple of weeks ago, the City of Huntington found that there was a 1.7 million dollar shortfall in tax revenues. After the failed ..... Huntington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379136/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:51:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378119/posts Police used a Taser gun to restrain a resident outside of his home on Crain Avenue as it burned at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday. The resident, Mike Bartlett, said he was returning from downtown for his cell phone when he noticed his sister's room on fire. He ran in to make sure she was not there and continued to find his friends in the basement and alert them of the fire. He said his cousin's girlfriend was sleeping upstairs so he went back in the house to retrieve her. "As I was running downstairs, I could hear the window glass... Kentnewsnet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378119/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:50:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2376097/posts THE Federal Government told scientists monitoring the huge oil leak off Australia's northern coast to focus on the Indonesian side of the leaking well. The instruction meant waters closer to the Australian coast, which contain more biodiversity and include important whale habitats, were not assessed for oil contamination in a report that the federal Environment Department released on Friday. To complicate matters, fire broke out yesterday on the oil rig, which has been leaking oil into the Timor Sea for 10 weeks. Oil field operator PTTEP Australasia said the West Atlas rig and Montara well-head platform were on fire. No... WAToday (Aus) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2376097/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 22:41:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372894/posts A woman died at her apartment late Tuesday after trying to shed a bathrobe that had caught fire, officials said. A passer-by saw the woman, later identified as Linda Gadd, 58, on her balcony, on fire, said Jason Evans, spokesman for Dallas Fire-Rescue. The passer-by climbed up and put out the flames with a fire extinguisher, Evans said. But it was too late. Firefighters were called at about 9 p.m. to the one-alarm fire at the Pavilion Town Place, 7700 W. Greenway Blvd. in north Dallas. The neighborhood is southwest of the intersection of Lovers Lane and Dallas North Tollway... FWST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372894/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:53:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370697/posts More than 100 federal agents entered the smoldering Caribbean Petroleum Corporation fuel depot on Sunday as the investigation began in earnest into the cause of an explosion that rocked the San Juan metro area early Friday morning and sparked a massive fire that burned for more than two days. The blast registered 2.8 on the Richter scale and the ensuing blaze sent up an enormous tower of toxic smoke that forced the evacuation of some 1,500 residents from communities surrounding the Bayamón facility. Marcial Orlando Félix, the head of the federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) Bureau in Puerto Rico... CaribbeanBusinessPR.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370697/posts#comment Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:00:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361953/posts Police: Juveniles laughed after setting 15-year-old on fireupdated 1 hour, 43 minutes ago (CNN) -- Five juveniles were in custody Tuesday after a 15-year-old was intentionally set on fire at a Deerfield Beach, Florida, apartment complex, police said. Michael Brewer suffered second-degree burns over 80 percent of his body. "He's in for a long, long recovery," Broward County Sheriff Al Lamberti told reporters. Three juveniles were arrested Monday night, hours after the incident, and two others were arrested Tuesday, sheriff's Sgt. Steve Feeley said. "A couple of them last night were laughing about it," he said. "One of them arrested... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361953/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:53:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361861/posts A changing climate, population growth and a decade-long housing boom has proved to be a combustible mix for the city of Los Angeles. Not only are the fires in LA becoming more frequent, but these days they are also less predictable and a lot bigger. More and more of them are now referred to as mega-fire and the response, in California at least, is to fight them with equal force. In the last few lazy days of summer an act of arson tore through 10,000 hectares within a day and doubled in size every day for the first four days.... Australian Broadcasting Company http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361861/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:36:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361856/posts The 25-year-old Nigerian national was reportedly seen tending a small blaze about six days before the Station fire started in the same area. Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives hope to question a man who was spotted tending a small fire in the vicinity of the Station fire almost one week before that deadly blaze erupted in the Angeles National Forest. At a news conference Monday, homicide detectives requested the public's help in locating a 25-year-old homeless man who was caught "feeding" a small, uncontrolled fire in the early afternoon of Aug. 20 -- six days before the start of the... L.A. Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361856/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:29:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361614/posts The National Weather Service has issued flash-flood watches this morning for mountain burn areas from Santa Barbara to San Bernardino as a powerful winter storm moved into Southern California. Rain was beginning to fall this morning, with the strongest portions of the storm expected late today and early Wednesday morning. The National Weather Service issued the flood watches for areas burned by the fires in Santa Barbara as well as the massive Station fire is Los Angeles County and the Sheep fire near Wrightwood. The watch also includes areas burned in last year's large Sayre and Marek fires in the... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361614/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:08:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360450/posts A man was lit on fire Saturday night after he fell asleep on a sidewalk couch, Vancouver police said. The man was sent to the hospital with minor burns to his chest and wrist. No one has been arrested. According to police, the 26-year-old New Westminster man had been drinking when he stumbled across a couch near Commercial Drive and East Fifth Avenue. He decided to take a nap. At 11:40 p.m., a witness saw three men spray some type of fluid on the sleeping man and light him on fire, police said. The witness ran to help and got... CTV.ca http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360450/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:15:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359473/posts * Between 70 and 80 people were burned alive when a fuel tanker truck exploded in Nigeria, reportedly after a policeman fired a shot to keep passers-by away from a road accident, newspapers said on Saturday. The truck hit a pothole and overturned on Friday on the road between Onitsha and Enugu in the south of the country, spilling its cargo of petrol, witnesses and police told the papers. Several witnesses said that the truck exploded when a policeman who wanted to distance inquisitive onlookers fired his gun in the air. One witness said that people had been trying to... France24 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359473/posts#comment Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:01:56 GMT