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Arkell apparently also made a hand signal to refrigerator workmen being interviewed to keep them from discussing the origin of the blaze...
...violence erupted when youths from the Lozells Road area, described by police as a drug-trafficking center, confronted officers about to ticket a black motorist and then turned on firemen who were trying to extinguish a blaze in a bingo hall. By the time police reinforcements arrived, 300 to 400 youths were looting and burning neighborhood shops, many of them owned by Asian immigrants...
...express and the local collided head on in the hills of northern Portugal. Several of the cars were crushed; at least five burst into flames. The blaze, said one fireman, was as hot as "the incinerator in a crematorium." The collision resulted in at least 50 deaths and 100 injuries. By week's end, as rescue operations continued, more than 50 of the estimated 530 passengers aboard the two trains were still unaccounted for. Because many of the bodies were badly burned, only 18 victims had been identified...
Four Harvard Medical School students, in an attempt to dispose of toilet paper while on a hiking trip in a wooded area northeast of Seattle, accidentally started a 500-acre forest fire. The four men admitted to having started the blaze, which took three days and $500,000 to contain, a national forest spokesperson said. The man allegedly responsible for starting the blaze was fined $100, the customary amount levied for starting a fire without a permit...
While investigators were trying to determine what industrial chemicals had fed the blaze, Mayor Lipari announced that the cause of the catastrophe had been traced to two twelve-year-old neighborhood boys, who had slipped through a fence and ignited a barrel apparently filled with volatile naphthalene. Said the mayor: "They stated they were playing with matches...