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Savannah State University Fire Ruled as Electrical
2015-11-23 18:04:43| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
Officials have ruled a fire that broke out in the Kennedy Fine Arts Building at Savannah State University, Georgia, in mid-October to be electrical. read more
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Fire risks prompt tumble dryer recall
2015-11-23 15:39:59| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A "significant" number of tumble dryers sold in the last 11 years in the UK may need a repair owing to fire risks.
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Tazreen fire compensation scheme gets underway
2015-11-23 13:06:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A multi-stakeholder trust set up to oversee claims and collect funding to make payments to the families of the 112 workers killed and those injured in a fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory in Bangladesh has been created three years after the tragedy in 2012.
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How Fire, Once a Friend of Forests, Became a Destroyer
2015-11-22 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: This summer, eye-watering smoke hung over much of the western United States, and flames threatened homes, towns, and even the giant sequoias of Kings Canyon National Park. By mid-November, wildfires had burned 9.8 million acres across the country, and 2015 was on track to become the biggest fire year in at least a decade. Rising temperatures, drought, and dense forests created by decades of fire suppression are contributing to larger, faster-moving wildfires. And as more people move into the woods,...
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Record heat puts Australia at risk of intense fire season
2015-11-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A fire that raged this week across hundreds of thousands of acres of grasslands and about-to-be harvested wheat crops, killing a farmer and three workers, points to a dangerous summer ahead in Australia, scientists and weather watchers say. The fire, in the south of Western Australia, began last weekend after lightning struck about 12 miles north of the township of Esperance. It was flaring six days later after burning through 580 square miles of farmland, fanned by temperatures above 100 degrees...
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