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The other leading causes of house fires were heating equipment, electrical fires, intentional fires and fires from smoking materials. While cooking fires may have caused the most injuries, they ...
The fires claimed at least 14 lives, [5] [6] injured 190, [7] and is one of the largest arson caused fires in the history of Tennessee. [8] [9] [10] By December 12, the fires had burned more than 10,000 acres (15 square miles) inside the national park, and 6,000 acres in other parts of the area.
A structure fire is a fire involving the structural components of various types of residential, commercial or industrial buildings, such as barn fires. Residential buildings range from single-family detached homes and townhouses to apartments and tower blocks , or various commercial buildings ranging from offices to shopping malls .
That fire was 100% contained by mid-morning, according to a Facebook post from the Townsend Area Volunteer Fire Department. Tennessee Forestry took over the scene at 8 p.m. and monitored the fire ...
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Getting to a cause for these fires will be critically important, Wara said, as that information can help L.A. and other cities avoid similar fires in the future. But for the same reason, it is ...
Smoke inhalation is the breathing in of harmful fumes (produced as by-products of combusting substances) through the respiratory tract. [1] This can cause smoke inhalation injury (subtype of acute inhalation injury) which is damage to the respiratory tract caused by chemical and/or heat exposure, as well as possible systemic toxicity after smoke inhalation.
The Tennessee Valley Authority overnight issued a warning of a dam breach as a precaution, saying the lack of visibility and rising water made it hard to assess the situation at that point.