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Hamas, which advocates jihad to destroy the State of Israel and calls to boycott the Jewish state, demanded a greater supply of electricity from Israel to Gaza on Sunday. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri charged the "Israeli occupation" with responsibility for a house fire "which burned to death this week three toddler members of the al-Hindi family in Gaza." The fire broke out due to the family lighting candles in their apartment, as their neighborhood had been suffering from a blackout at the time. Abu Zuhri also accused Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas and PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah...

A 90-year-old man pulled his wife of 68 years to safety in her wheelchair as a fire ravaged their North Carolina home. Arthur Schneider jumped into action after a lightning storm hit a street transformer, causing flames to crawl through his Asheboro house, he told the Daily News Saturday. Arthur immediately thought of his wife Rosemary, 89, who has Parkinson’s disease and dementia. She was all the way at the back of the house and cannot walk. “I had to go back and get her,” Arthur said. “She’s part of me.” The smoke alarms “were all buzzing” as the power...

Here’s a great story about cops saving lives. More from ABC News: Several police officers formed a human net to catch a woman and her two young daughters as they jumped from their burning home in southern New Jersey. Camden County police said the fire on Atlantic Avenue in Camden was reported around 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, when residents notified two officers who happened to be on patrol in the area. They told them the woman and her children, ages 4 and 7, were trapped on the home’s second floor. Two other police officers soon arrived at the home, and all...

I smelled one whiff of smoke as I walked through the house at 2:19 a.m. No smoke detectors went off and I did not smell it again. Searching the house I finally found one Lux thermostat that was not working. It runs the # 2 furnace in this big house. After finally figuring out how to get the cover off (I'm an older lady living with 2 cats), I discovered the batteries ....dated 2011...were moderately corroded. It takes two batteries and of that size I had only one new one. I finally robbed one out of the wireless computer mice...

SAN ANTONIO -- A father was tazed by San Antonio police while trying to save his infant boy from a house fire. The incident occurred at around 2:30 a.m. Sunday during a house fire in the 100 block of Morningview Drive. Investigators said the parents of the eight-month-old boy had dropped off their children at their grandparents' house. Somehow, a fire got started inside the home shortly thereafter. The grandparents managed to grab one boy and rush to safety. That's when they realized one boy was still trapped inside. Emergency crews and the children's parents arrived on the scene at...

My friend, Jennifer, has had a terrible week. Right before Christmas her purse was stolen out of her locked car. She lost $400, two smart phones, all of her ID and important papers. Tonight her house caught fire. I haven't heard yet if any of it is salvageable. Her husband works the night shift so she was home alone when this happened. She is OK except for pain in her lungs because of smoke inhalation. I know tragic events come to both the good and the not so good. Jennifer is one of the loving ones who is always serving...

The Blaze reports that upscale homes in Massachusetts are being targeted by arsonists with a clear political message. In two incidents, the message “f*** the rich” was found, and "incendiary devices" were discovered in one home set ablaze. As disturbing as these reports are, one aspect is not being examined - the impact of charged political rhetoric used by the left in attacking the compromise deal between the President and the GOP. Liberal Democrats, like Washington's Jim McDermott, have engaged in class warfare in a concerted effort to demonize the plan. McDermott went so far as to call the compromise...

California lawmakers will consider requiring that only "fire-safe" cigarettes designed to extinguish when left in ashtrays or dropped onto bedroom mattresses can be sold in the state. Legislation to be unveiled Monday comes nearly seven months after implementation of a similar standard in New York. The goal is to save lives and property destroyed by fires ignited by cigarette butts that are carelessly or accidentally discarded. "Pretty soon, it's going to sweep the country," predicted Steve Blackledge, legislative director for the California Public Interest Group. "It's common sense and it's safer for consumers."

11/08/04 - HOUSTON) — An explosion and fire today in southeast Houston injured at least four people in a case allegedly linked to the theft of natural gas. Investigators say a firefighter and three residents suffered burns during the predawn blaze. All four victims were taken to Houston hospitals. Neighbors told investigators they heard a loud explosion at a two-story townhouse. Fire officials told the Houston Chronicle that the townhome had no natural gas account and the meter at the site allegedly was stolen from a nearby vacant home. Authorities say a neighboring townhouse also was damaged during the fire.

Small plane down in residential area. Took off from Addison airport, 2 homes on fire. Just breaking on Fox 4 in Dallas.

Fire haunts family Mother's house burned 50 years ago By Michelle Dynes rep2@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - Fifty years to the day after her mother's home burnt to the ground, Cindy Kivisto watched in horror as her own home burned Friday afternoon. After leaving the house at 2:30 p.m., Kivisto said she got a call at work that her house at 3760 Cribbon Ave. was burning. Kivisto was visibly upset as she talked on a cell phone and was unable to say more. Family friend Jean Marie Leif said she was taking a walk when she spotted...

<p>Fire investigators in Yazoo City sift through debris at the scene of a deadly early morning house fire.</p> <p>YAZOO CITY — Almost a year after six children left alone died in a mobile home fire in Tchula, the deadly scenario played out again early Monday morning. Five children died in a house fire here after being left by themselves. One child was rescued.Police say they believe the children's mothers, two sisters, were across town at a night spot.</p>

"'IS THERE A FIRE AT YOUR HOUSE?' I SAID YES...AND YELLED INTO THE PHONE, HURRY, HURRY, HURRY." After several calls to 911, went unanswered ... a South Jordan family waited for help and, watched ... as their house burned, right in front of them. Confusion at the dispatch center.. left one family waiting for help in the worst of circumstances .... a house fire. News Specialist Samantha Hayes, is live ... to explain. The grid system in the Salt Lake Valley usually makes giving directions a pretty cut and dry procedure... But last night when two calls came in at...

Father rescues baby; both hurt in house blaze BY JOHN REYNOLDS AVALANCHE-JOURNAL As Cruz Orozco Jr. stood Friday afternoon outside the burned-out house at 1909 40th St. that had been his sister's home, he had no doubts as to how he felt about his brother-in-law, Reynaldo Rosas. "He's a hero," Orozco said. "He saved my sister's life. I'm proud to be his brother-in-law." Scarcely 12 hours earlier, Rosas severed an artery trying to smash open an escape route for his wife, Linda, out of their burning home. He then braved flames twice to rescue their 7-month-old daughter, Clarice Ariel. However,...