Updated and corrected 5:54 p.m. ET Tens of thousands of firefighters employed by the federal government battled flames last year that scorched more than 8 million acres and caused billions of dollars in damage. And what were the Capitol Hill staffers responsible for their fates doing? Playing games — literally. Read full article > >

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Congressional wildfire ‘office pool’ angers firefighters

LOS ANGELES — It was another night of firefighters scrambling across the nation’s second largest city to snuff out a series of arson attacks when a tip came in about a German man who matched the description of someone with a shoulder-length ponytail captured on a surveillance video near where a car fire was reported. Read full article > >

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24-year-old man under arrest in connection with LA arson spree that rattled residents

SANTIAGO, Chile — Firefighters in Chile battled three huge wildfires Monday that have burned about 90 square miles (23,000 hectares) of forest, destroyed more than 100 homes and have driven away thousands of tourists while causing millions of dollars in losses. The fires also claimed their first victim: an elderly man who refused warnings to leave his home. Read full article > >

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SANTIAGO, Chile — Firefighters in Chile battled three huge wildfires Monday that have burned about 90 square miles (23,000 hectares) of forest, destroyed more than 100 homes and have driven away thousands of tourists while causing millions of dollars in losses. The fires also claimed their first victim: an elderly man who refused warnings to leave his home. Read full article > >

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Chile battles 3 huge wildfires; 1 killed, tourists evacuated, losses in millions

Hundreds of extra firefighters are on the streets in Los Angeles after a spate of arson attacks in the Hollywood area and elsewhere.

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Los Angeles on arson attack alert

More than 400 firefighters and 170 emergency workers were marshaled to extinguish a fire that had raged for almost a day on a nuclear submarine in dry dock.

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Russian Submarine Fire Took Hundreds of Workers a Day to Extinguish

The Chilean government declares the Torres del Paine National Park a disaster area as firefighters struggle to control a huge blaze.

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Chile nature park ravaged by fire

More than 50 firefighters were spending Christmas Eve fighting a large blaze in commercial buildings near the centre of Bradford.

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Firefighters tackle Bradford fire

Heavy rain has caused flooding in mid and south west Wales, with firefighters being called out to over 20 incidents.

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Flooding keeps rescue crews busy

BERLIN — Nearly half of the 107,000 residents of Germany’s western city of Koblenz had to leave their homes Sunday as experts prepared to defuse a 1.8 ton World War II-era bomb discovered in the Rhine river. It’s one of Germany’s biggest bomb-related evacuations since the war ended, and some 2,500 police officers, firefighters and paramedics were on duty across the city to secure the operation. Read full article > >

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Tens of thousands evacuate German city as experts defuse massive British WWII-era bomb

Firefighters from across Nevada came close to taming a sudden wildfire that sent 16 people to hospitals and was blamed for the death of a 74-year-old man who had a heart attack while trying to flee.

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Wildfire Outside of Reno Damages 25 Homes

A mother and her two children are rescued from flooding by firefighters in lifejackets in Draperstown, County Londonderry.

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Family escapes car flood danger

BOSTON — Police say a preliminary investigation indicates an explosion and fire at a Boston apartment building may have been the result of a failed suicide attempt. Firefighters rescued at least 15 people early Monday, including a 6-year-old boy who was dropped from a third-floor window of a large apartment building in the city’s Roxbury section. Read full article > >

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Police say Boston fire may have been suicide attempt; firefighters catch boy in 3-story drop

The terrorist attacks scythed through generations of firefighters and Wall Street traders in the largely Irish-Catholic neighborhoods on the Rockaway peninsula. Also, the neighborhood’s Muslim bagel man; and the connection between the 9/11 families and wounded American soldiers.

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The 9/11 Decade: Hit So Hard by 9/11, Rockaway Struggles to Let Go

Wildfires have destroyed more than 1,000 homes as firefighters work to prevent further losses

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