Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eight alarm blaze early in October completely destroyed a five-story brick apartment building and severely damaged another. No one was hurt in the fire, which left 120 people homeless...
...national spotlight trains on people such as Larry Hogue, a chronic mental patient and crack abuser who terrorized Manhattan's Upper West Side, or Andres Huang, the transient accused of building the campfire that recently set off a raging blaze in California. "About two years ago, we began to see what is almost a national arms race to criminalize homelessness," says Madeleine Stoner, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California. "People are beginning to fear for their safety." Concurs Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, the man charged by the Clinton Administration with devising...
Residents of 1200 Mass. Ave. whose fire alarms were activated from the smoke said firefighters exitngiushed the blaze quickly...
From as early as the second day of the fires that have blackened 200,000 acres of Southern California and rendered thousands homeless, it was obvious that some were not accidental. Aside from one blaze caused by a vagrant's campfire and a few others sparked by fallen power lines or kids playing with matches, everything else was labeled suspicious. But it was not until the smoke, literally, cleared over last week's ruins that police released a shocking estimate. Of the fortnight's 26 major blazes, 20 are regarded as set by arsonists...
...Santa Ana winds, flames engulfed the hills of Malibu last week, killing three people and destroying 323 homes. Fire officials suspect the blaze was set by arsonists. Many movie stars have homes in Malibu, but only Sean Penn's and Ali McGraw's suffered appreciable damage...