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Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A fire ripped through a popular nightclub in India’s Goa state, killing 25 people, including tourists, the state’s chief minister said Sunday. The blaze occurred just past …
Read More »Charges laid in frat party fire that injured sorority sisters during beer Olympics
Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A young man has been charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm after a fire at a frat party near Western University that injured five sorority sisters, …
Read More »Hong Kong leader orders independent inquiry into deadly highrise fire
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Hong Kong’s leader said on Tuesday a judge-led committee will investigate the cause of the city’s deadliest fire in decades and review government oversight of building renovations …
Read More »Complex fire still burning at Thorncliffe Park buildings days after residents evacuated
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Displaced residents of two towers at a Thorncliffe Park highrise are still waiting to hear when they’ll be able to return home, as fire crews continue to …
Read More »High temperatures hinder Hong Kong firefighters battling deadly highrise complex fire
Fires continue to engulf at least three of the eight towers, according to journalist Laura Westbrook, who just spoke with CBC News Network host Aarti Pole. As Westbrook spoke, dozens of fire trucks and emergency vehicles could be seen lined up along a blocked off street behind her. Flames are …
Read More »Hong Kong highrise fire leaves at least 13 dead, with reports of residents trapped
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A fire spread across multiple highrise apartment buildings in a Hong Kong housing complex on Wednesday, killing 13 people and leaving others trapped inside, authorities said. Nine …
Read More »Fire that grew to become part of Nova Scotia’s largest wildfire started on this man’s property
Mervyn Perry recalls turning off the TV and going to bed one night in May 2023 with no idea that a tire was being lit on fire on his land in Barrington, N.S., and that the flame would grow to be part of the largest wildfire in the province’s history. …
Read More »Israeli fire kills 3 people in Gaza, medics say, as hospital receives more Palestinian bodies
Israeli fire killed three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Monday, north of the southern city of Rafah, which remains under Israeli control, according to local health authorities, further straining the fragile U.S.-backed ceasefire. In a statement issued earlier on Monday, the Israeli military said forces identified “terrorists” who crossed the yellow line, …
Read More »4 dead, 8 wounded in shooting and fire at Michigan church, police say
A gunman opened fire inside a Michigan church during a Sunday service before apparently setting the building ablaze, authorities said, killing at least four people and injuring eight others before police shot him. Hundreds of people were inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, about 80 kilometres north …
Read More »Namibia’s Etosha National Park, home to critically endangered black rhino, engulfed in huge fire
Namibia has sent more than 500 soldiers to help battle a huge wildfire that has burned across 30 per cent of the country’s best-known national park. The office of President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said Sunday that an unknown number of wildlife have been killed in the fire, which started last Monday and …
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