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2021 Rockton fire. On June 14, 2021, a maintenance accident at the Chemtool Incorporated manufacturing plant in Rockton, Illinois, United States, triggered a chemical fire that lasted four days and injured two emergency workers. [1][2] Portions of the village, located north of Rockford near the Illinois - Wisconsin state line, were subject to a ...
Camp Fire. Camp Fire, formerly Camp Fire USA and originally Camp Fire Girls of America, is a co-ed youth development organization. [1][2] Camp Fire was the first nonsectarian, multicultural organization for girls in America. [3] It is now gender-inclusive, and its programs emphasize camping and other outdoor activities.
Southern Hotel. This fire broke out around 1 a.m. on April 11, 1877, killing 21 people at the Southern Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. The fire may have been burning for half an hour before the alarm sounded. The building was reduced to smoking ruins, and a replacement Southern Hotel was built on the site in 1880.
September 11, 2024 at 4:36 PM. A resident stops to watch the Airport Fire burn near his home in the Santa Ana Mountains. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times) As four fires grew in Southern California ...
Audio of the previous day's 911 call was released earlier by Sangamon County, but two videos from body-worn cameras were recently provided to The State Journal-Register, part of the USA TODAY ...
Jeremy Renner is sharing distressing scenes from the Davis Fire as it approached his Lake Tahoe home.. The Hawkeye star, 53, shared multiple photos and videos of the fast-spreading wildfire to his ...
The Mangum Fire burned more than 70,000 acres (280 km 2) of forest. A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. [1][2] Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a bushfire (in Australia), desert fire, grass ...
James H. Williams, USA TODAY. Updated September 7, 2024 at 8:41 PM. The Northern Illinois Huskies upset Notre Dame Fighting Irish 16-14 in South Bend to pull off the biggest win in the program's ...