Watch a number of videos from a fire that broke out earlier today in the Hollywood Hills near Griffith Park and the famed Hollywood sign. picked by indierockcafe 3 years ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
I guess when you're a firefighter in a small town you have to start your own fires. picked by civicracer18c1 3 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Most of a downtown block in Toronto was gutted by fire last week. Early rumors suggested it might've been an explosion in a meth-lab. The Fire Chief extinguished that theory, but other reasons for the disaster may be weeks or months away. picked by jago 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
Fire officials in Clearwater, Fla., say a heroic cat that helped its owner escape a fire did not make it out of the burning mobile home alive. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
According to reports from the Southern Area Coordination Center, the Sweat Farm Road Fire in southern Georgia exploded from 1,000 acres to more than 20,000 acres in less than 24 hours between April 16 and 17, 2007. Strong winds whipped the blaze into 100-foot flames, while individual trees went up like torches. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
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A dog was hailed as a hero on Sunday after it risked its life to save a litter of newborn kittens from a house fire, rescuers said. Fire fighters, who revived the dog, said he refused to leave the building and was found by them alongside the litter of kittens, despite thick smoke. picked by suebe 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share world |
According to court documents, the woman told police that Hart held her against her will, threatened her with a knife, choked her, threw lighter fluid on her and lit her on fire. He then lit the couple’s bed on fire, destroying some of her personal belongings. picked by muppet 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
A Fire Marshall report indicates that it was mice or rats that chewed through an electrical cable starting a fire at a Toronto animal shelter. picked by pocksucket 11 months ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
A fire truck responding to a house fire on Olive Street in Elyria early this morning lost its rear axle and gas tank on Broad Street near East Bridge . 7 comments edit related share plime.comThe Firefighters on the truck were all able to escape without injury. picked by TraumaMamma 2 years ago |
Wasabi, or Japanese Horseradish, has a particularly pungent taste and scent. Now researchers in Japan are using Wasabi's overpowering odor in a new type of smoke detector / fire alarm that wakes the deaf through scent instead of sound. picked by Mitzuzake 2 years ago 10 comments edit related share science |
Investigators are baffled as to how a man suffered second- and third-degree burns inside his apartment - even though the only sign of a fire was a candle in the bathroom. picked by Bornbad 10 months ago 4 comments edit related share weird |
The longstanding mystery of how oceans once formed on Mars could be solved by fire and brimstone. Specifically, researchers now suggest that ancient volcanoes could have released brimstone — now more commonly known as sulfur — that warmed up the red planet enough for liquid water oceans in the early days of Mars. These findings might also shed insight on the young Earth, including the ... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Concerned with the possibility of vandalism or the threat of terrorist activities, all fire hydrants were shut off in this rural Texas fire district. Of course you know what happens next... (And did you know that the fire hydrant is an actual sex position? I love Google images!) picked by murfanda 1 year ago 3 comments edit related share politics |
The sheriff's office says no one was injured in the fire, but the store received "substantial'' damage. picked by bornbad 6 months ago 10 comments edit related share weird |
Early humans crossed a threshold around 75,000 years ago, when they started painting symbols, carving patterns and making jewelry. A new study found they also began to use fire to make tools around that time. picked by muppet 3 months ago 0 comments edit related share technology |
Jim Carrey as Fire Marshall Bill on the Star Ship Enterprise. picked by MeLip 1 year ago 3 comments edit related share entertainment |
US news media have uncovered a damaging 800-page report on the portable media players — despite Apple's best attempts to suppress it. 7 comments edit related share plime.comThe report details several incidents in which iPods have caught fire and even burned their owners. picked by Bingo 4 months ago |
A blaze broke out at a fire station in Japan this week after a firefighter left a cooking stove burning as crew members left the station to respond to emergency calls. picked by topofall 10 months ago 1 comments edit related share weird |
A transformer for an aquarium starts a fire. 3 comments edit related share plime.comThe fire causes the aquarium to break. The resulting water puts out the fire. Rube Goldberg & Heath Robinson would be proud. picked by 2manyusernames 3 months ago |
A massive fire erupted at a natural gas pumping station in a rural area, spreading to houses and killing an undetermined number of people, authorities said. picked by muppet 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share science |