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    structure fire is a fire involving the structural components of various types of residential, commercial or industrial buildings, such as barn fires....
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  • building or structure fires where a building or structure has caught fire. For major urban conflagrations, see List of town and city fires. 586 BC – First...
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    fire station often has a high structure to accommodate the length of a hose for such preventive maintenance, known as a hose tower. On occasion, fire...
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  • destructive fire Structure fire, a house or building on fire Wildfire, a fire in a forest, rangeland, or other outdoor location Fire or Fires may also refer...
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    A fire station (also called a fire house, fire hall, firemen's hall, or engine house) is a structure or other area for storing firefighting apparatuses...
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    Firefighter (redirect from Fire fighter)
    fire hose, and fire extinguishers. See also Fire suppression for other techniques. While sometimes fires can be limited to small areas of a structure...
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    The King's Cross fire occurred in 1987 at King's Cross St Pancras tube station in London, England, causing 31 fatalities. It began under a wooden escalator...
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  • to a work of modern art of a young girl staring at the camera with a structure fire behind her. The girl in the photo, Zoë Roth, was four years old when...
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    injured. The fire caused a complete collapse of the building, damaging numerous nearby structures. 2018 Employees Provident Fund building fire (Petaling...
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  • Fire emergency most commonly refers to: Conflagration, a very large undesired fire Structure fire, an unwanted fire within a building or other structure...
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    Minster fire 2009 St Mel's Cathedral fire 2019 Shuri Castle fire 2024 Børsen fire Construction and renovation fires List of building or structure fires List...
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    Wildfire (redirect from Bush fire)
    bushfire (in Australia), desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, prairie fire, vegetation fire, or veld fire. Some natural forest ecosystems depend...
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    staircase—a flimsy and poorly anchored iron structure that may have already been broken before the fire. It soon twisted and collapsed from the heat...
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    Firefighting (redirect from Fire-fighting)
    the property, his men would put out the fire; if the owner refused, then they would simply let the structure burn to the ground. After buying many properties...
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  • This article is a list of notable fires. This is a partial list of fire due to mining: human-made structures to extract minerals, ores, rock, petroleum...
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  • On 20 November 1992, a fire broke out in Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in the world and one of the official residences of the British monarch...
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  • route by which the air enters the structure to the fire and the subsequent path the heated smoke takes to exit the structure. Also referred to as flow path...
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    The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD or LA City Fire) provides firefighting services as well as technical rescue services, hazardous materials services...
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    the end of 2022, there were 2154 structure fires. As a result, the city is now fighting an average of six structure fires per day. As of 2021, all new members...
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    Conflagration (redirect from Fire Disaster)
    conflagration. The conflagration of a building is known as a structure fire. Deflagration Fire department Fire investigation Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed.,...
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    Emergency exit (redirect from Fire exit)
    An emergency exit in a building or other structure is a special exit used during emergencies such as fires. The combined use of regular and emergency...
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  • The fire point, or combustion point, of a fuel is the lowest temperature at which the liquid fuel will continue to burn for at least five seconds after...
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  • States by death toll List of fires List of building or structure fires List of nightclub fires Blue Bird Café fire, 1972 fire in Montreal also started by...
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  • Sodder children disappearance (category Building and structure collapses caused by fire)
    On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder residence in Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States. At the time, it was occupied...
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    The Reichstag fire (German: Reichstagsbrand, listen) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday...
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    A fire pit or a fire hole can vary from a pit dug in the ground to an elaborate gas burning structure of stone, brick, and metal. The defining feature...
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    A volunteer fire department (VFD) is a fire department of volunteers who perform fire suppression and other related emergency services for a local jurisdiction...
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    In fire safety, compartmentation in structures, such as land-based buildings, traffic tunnels, ships, aerospace vehicles, or submarines, is an objective...
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  • On the night of November 15, 2024, a fire broke out in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh...
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  • fires were a major hazard to urban areas and the cause of massive amounts of damage to cities. For notable fires that involved a single structure, see...
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