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2. Combustibility and flammability - Wikipedia

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   A non-combustible material [17] is a substance that does not ignite, burn, support combustion, or release flammable vapors when subject to fire or heat, in the form in which it is used and under conditions anticipated. Any solid substance complying with either of two sets of passing criteria listed in Section 8 of ASTM E 136 when the substance ...

3. Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. fire - Wikipedia

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   The Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. fire began on December 3, 1999, in a 93-year-old abandoned building at 266 Franklin Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. [1] The fire was started accidentally some time between 4:30–5:45 pm by two homeless people (Thomas Levesque and Julie Ann Barnes) who were squatting in the building and had knocked over a candle.

4. Merrimack Valley gas explosions - Wikipedia

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   On September 13, 2018, excessive pressure in natural gas lines owned by Columbia Gas of Massachusetts caused a series of explosions and fires to occur in as many as 40 homes, with over 80 individual fires, in the towns of Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover, all within the Merrimack Valley, in Massachusetts, United States.

5. Fire shuts down high-rise office building in Worcester - AOL

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   Fire crews were dispatched to the 370 Main St. building in response to a master box at around noon Wednesday, Worcester Fire Assistant Chief Adam Roche said. Firefighters heard reports of a fire ...

6. Boiler explosion - Wikipedia

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   Boiler explosions are of a particular danger in (locomotive-type) fire tube boilers because the top of the firebox (crown sheet) must be covered with some amount of water at all times; or the heat of the fire can weaken the crown sheet or crown stays to the point of failure, even at normal working pressure.

7. Online fundraiser identifies Worcester fire victims as ... - AOL

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   WORCESTER – Family members of two people who died as a result of a fire Tuesday night on Hancock Street have started a GoFundMe page identifying the victims as a married couple.. Juana ...