HOUSTON — A homeowner woke to smoke and the sound of crackling fire in his southeast Houston home early Tuesday. According to the Houston Fire Department, the fire was reported on Glen Rock Drive near Plainview Street around 1 a.m. via Electrical short sets fire to southeast Houston home | khou.com Houston.
A firefighter works on a roof of a wooden building while a fire ravages ancient Dukezong town in Shangri-la county, in southwestern China’s Yunnan province. MALCOLM MOORE – 12 JANUARY 2014 A 10-hour inferno has destroyed the ancient Tibetan town which, according to the Chinese government, was the earthly incarnation of the lost paradise of […]
Electrician given two-year suspended sentence 06JAN2014 Comments Off Tweet this by Eileen Maher An electrician, who pleaded guilty to exposing workers to risk by bypassing the residual current device in an electrical circuit, was last month given a two-year suspended prison sentence at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. Earlier, the court heard that the electrician was […]
Paul O’Mahony who helped rescue people from a fire at apartments on Thomas Court in Dublin where three adults and five children where rescued. Photo: Arthur Carron/Collins JOYCE FEGAN – 06 JANUARY 2014 FIVE children and four adults are lucky to be alive after a late-night fire swept through their home. via Woman forced to […]