PRAGUE—A massive fire in a nursing home for Alzheimer patients in the Czech Republic has left two people dead and injured more than 50 others, officials said on Thursday. The regional rescue service said the bodies of the two patients were discovered in the badly damaged building following the fire that broke out late Wednesday…
Facts Matter (June 1): Massive Fire Breaks Out At Poultry Farm, FBI Warns of Targeted Cyber Attacks On Food Plants
A large poultry farm in Minnesota, which supplied some of the biggest supermarkets in America with 3 million eggs per day, burned to the ground. However, this is not the only fire to have taken place over the past year or so. In fact, during that time, there have been dozens of food processing facilities…
Carnival Freedom Catches Fire; Cruise Line to Send 2nd Ship to Bring Guests Home to Port Canaveral
By Richard Tribou From Orlando Sentinel A Carnival Cruise Line ship that sails out of Port Canaveral became a spectacle Thursday morning with its iconic smokestack funnel engulfed in flames while docked in Grand Turk. Carnival Cruise Line officials said in a statement the ship’s “emergency response team quickly activated and extinguished a fire inside…
6 Injured in Explosion and Fire at Wisconsin Pier Factory
EAGLE, Wis.—Six people were hurt, including three firefighters, in an explosion and fire that rocked a Wisconsin marine construction company Thursday with a blast so thunderous it shook a nearby elementary school. About 100 firefighters responded after the explosion and fire was reported at Summerset Marine Construction in the small Waukesha County community of Eaglea,…
Fire in Commercial Building in India Kills at Least 27; Police Arrest 2
NEW DELHI—Police arrested two owners of a company that manufactures and sells security cameras after a massive fire reportedly started in their office in a four-story commercial building in the Indian capital, killing 27 people and injuring 12 others, police and fire officials said Saturday. The police registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting…
Warehouse Fires Occurring Nationwide May Be Linked to Lockdown Policy
News Analysis Logistics parks and warehouses in many parts of China have reportedly caught fire in recent months. Some suggest that the fires could have been set on purpose to conceal the dumping of (or spoiled) materials that couldn’t be delivered during lockdown-induced transportation disruptions. From February to April, fires were frequently reported in the…
Firefighters Respond to Industrial Fire at Perdue Farms Food Processing Facility
First responders responded to an industrial fire that threatened a Perdue Farms facility in Virginia over the past weekend, according to a local fire department. “Chesapeake firefighters battled an industrial fire this evening at Perdue Farms in the South Norfolk area. Plant operators reported a fire in [a] large soybean processing tank,” said the Chesapeake Fire…
Harrowing Bodycam Footage Shows Sheriff’s Deputy Scaling Blazing Apartment to Save Mom’s Baby Girl
They could see the flames as soon as the deputies arrived at the three-story Isle of East Millenia apartments in Orlando, Florida, in the early morning hours of April 23. They were just doing their job, but one deputy’s actions that day saw him hailed as a hero. And it was caught on camera, for…
Largest US Wildfire Rages out of Control in New Mexico
MORA, N.M.—Firefighters in New Mexico failed on Friday to pin back the flames of the United States’ largest wildfire, which is burning perilously close to a string of mountain villages. The blaze is the most destructive of dozens in the U.S. Southwest that are more widespread and burning earlier than normal in the year. Thousands…
Despite String of Fires, Manufactures Confident Food Supply Is Secure
At least 16 U.S. food processing plants have been destroyed or damaged by fire since November 2021, leaving some to worry that the national food supply is under attack. But food industry experts are not concerned, saying the fires are unrelated. To put it in perspective, the United States had 38,821 food and beverage manufacturing…
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