Date: 11/1/2008 GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) _ A fire that destroyed the Golden Corral restaurant here Wednesday was likely started by a cigarette or a match that was thrown in the trash, authorities said. Doug Bennyhoff, fire marshal for Great Falls Fire/Rescue, said investigators determined the fire started in an area where employees regularly smoked. […]
Date: 10/31/2008 12:35 PM WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) _ Authorities say a cigar appears to have started a chair on fire, damaging a West Fargo apartment and injuring the tenant. Fire Chief Roy Schatschneider says 61-year-old Leslie Moore had been sitting in the chair in the living room smoking a cigar before the fire on […]
Date: 10/28/2008 By ROGER ALFORDAssociated Press WriterFRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) _ Gov. Steve Beshear said Tuesday he has asked legal experts to determine whether new evidence warrants reopening an investigation into one of the nation’s deadliest fires, a nightclub blaze that killed 165 people more than 30 years ago. Survivors of the 1977 fire at the […]
Date: 10/24/2008METAMORA, Ill. (AP) — Five students needed hospital treatment for breathing problems after someone sprayed an aerosol product on a school bus. Officials said 63 students were on the bus heading to a grade school in Metamora. Four boys and a girl, ages 7 to 13, were affected by the spray. Metamora Superintendent Trish […]
Date: 10/22/2008 1:43 PM By JEFF KAROUBAssociated Press Writer HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) _ Fire killed a woman and three children in one home early Wednesday and spread to four other houses, three of them vacant, fire and city officials said. Space heaters used to warm the victims’ home may have caused the blaze, fire […]
Date: 10/21/2008 10:44 PM By NIGEL DUARAAssociated Press Writer IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) _ The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday questioned a TV station’s findings of high formaldehyde levels in agency-issued trailers and said the lifestyles and habits of the flood victims living in the trailers may be to blame. Government tests have shown […]
Date: 10/14/2008 4:54 PM By THOMAS J. SHEERANAssociated Press Writer CLEVELAND (AP) _ A man indicted this month on charges of setting a fire that killed a woman and eight children at a birthday sleepover said he would never do anything to harm a child, and that he felt the same pain as relatives of […]
The recall involves Effikal RVGP-PC Gas Vent Damper size 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 which are installed with the gas boiler systems listed below. The vent damper date code is located on a sticker under the motor assembly cap on the plastic base. Serial numbers are located on a label on the […]
Date: 10/8/2008 2:28 PM By TIM HUBERAP Business Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A coal company belonging to Bob Murray, the mine owner who entered the national spotlight last year when nine people died in a Utah mine, was fined $1.46 million Wednesday by federal regulators for safety violations at an Illinois operation. Murray Energy’s Galatia […]
Facts about carbon monoxide poisoning: Most signs and symptoms of CO exposure are nonspecific (e.g., headache or nausea) and can be mistakenly attributed to other causes, such as viral illnesses. Undetected or unsuspected CO exposure can result in death. – Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report The true incidence of CO poisoning is not known, since […]