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Haiti officials say 15 children died in residence fire

By EVENS SANON, MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, and BEN FOX | February 14, 2020

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A fire swept through a Haitian children's home run by a Pennsylvania-based religious nonprofit group, killing 15 children, officials said Friday.Rose-Marie Louis, a child-care worker at the home, told The Associated Press...

Electrical issue in attic started house fire that killed 7

February 10, 2020

CLINTON, Miss. (AP) — A house fire that killed seven people in Mississippi over the weekend was accidental and it was caused by an electrical issue in the attic, the state fire marshal said Monday.“It also appears there were no working smoke alarms...

Mom, 6 kids die in Mississippi house fire; dad injured

By ROGELIO SOLIS | February 8, 2020

CLINTON, Miss. (AP) — A mother and her six children died when a fire destroyed their home early Saturday in central Mississippi, authorities said.The father was the lone survivor of the 12:30 a.m. blaze in Clinton, a city of about 26,500 people just...

Man, 19, gravely injured in Los Angeles high-rise fire dies

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER | January 31, 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 19-year-old French citizen who was gravely injured when flames tore through a high-rise apartment tower this week died Friday evening at a hospital, authorities said.The Fire Department announced the death but provided no details.The...

Los Angeles high-rise that caught fire lacked sprinklers

By BRIAN MELLEY and STEFANIE DAZIO | January 30, 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 25-story West Los Angeles apartment tower that caught fire, forcing firefighters to pluck stranded people from the rooftop and a ledge, had no sprinklers even though the same building burned seven years ago, authorities said.Flames...

‘I thought I was going to die.’ Tenants flee high-rise fire

By BRIAN MELLEY and STEFANIE DAZIO | January 30, 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters made a dramatic ladder rescue of a man who appeared about to jump from a burning Los Angeles apartment building on Wednesday and helicopters plucked people from the roof of the 25-story high-rise as other terrified residents...

Prosecutor: Remains found in Phoenix were those of child

By ASTRID GALVAN | January 29, 2020

PHOENIX (AP) — Skeletal remains found in the house of a Phoenix couple accused of abusing three children who had been removed from their custody belonged to another child who might have also been abused, a prosecutor said in court Wednesday.The remains...