Fire broke out at Universal Studios in Los Angeles about 7:45 a.m. this morning, in the same area as a 1990 fire. That fire cost the studio about $50 million in damages.

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Small town government. Gotta love it.

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UPDATE: Democrat and Chronicle
The scale of Sunday’s chain-reaction pileup on Interstate 390 is best described by the numbers:
Thirty-six tangled vehicles.
Twenty-five people injured, including one teenager who later died.
Wind gusts up to 37 mph and blowing snow made seeing past the hood virtually impossible. [snip]
Buses that were headed to the Rochester Institute of Technology to pick [...]

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R News
Two college students died and one was seriously hurt after a two-alarm house fire in Rochester early Friday morning.
Firefighters were called to Upton Park at 2:39 a.m. for the report of a porch fire. When firefighters arrived on scene there were heavy smoke and flames coming from the house.
One of the victims was found [...]

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A fire on Camp Pendleton threatens a building near the San Luis Rey gate Oct. 24. This is one of the four fires aboard Camp Pendleton covering 10,105 acres. Firefighters are suppresing the blazes with helicopter support and reverse fire operations which are controlled intentional burning to prevent the spread of the fires.

A Camp Pendleton [...]

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DVIDS
Photos and story by Sgt. Mike Pryor, 2nd Brigade Combat Team 82nd Airborne Division Public Affairs
As a firefighter in eastern Baghdad’s Sha’ab area, Esam Darwesh sees it as his job to respond whenever fire threatens a building in the neighborhood – even, it turns out, when that building is the heavily-fortified base for hundreds of [...]

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WCBS
A six-alarm fire in the abandoned Deutsche Bank skyscraper sent a plume of gray smoke trailing above ground zero Saturday afternoon as firetrucks and police cars raced through lower Manhattan to reach a building already decimated by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Two firefighters were critically injured while trying to reach the fire, which began about [...]

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