Las Vegas High-Rise Fire
More than 40-million people visit the Las Vegas Strip every year and 90% of those people stay in high rises that stretch in some cases more than 60 stories into the sky. So it may not be hard to believe that the Fire Station that covers the strip is the busiest in the world and has the task of fighting fires hundreds of feet above the casinos and stores that draw-in millions from around the ... read more
























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Yonat Friling
December 6, 2010 1:10 PM
Teen admits: I might have caused the fire
Israeli Police arrested a 14 years old boy from the Druze village of Usfiya, who is suspected of negligently causing the Carmel fire disaster. Police claim the suspect admitted to smoking a hookah in an open area near Usfiya, throwing out the burning coal and not reporting that a fire had erupted. In his interrogation he said that he returned to school after smoking the ... read more