Toxic smoke fears at tip fire

Fire crews wearing breathing apparatus have been working to put out a fire at the Armadale rubbish tip, south of Perth.

The fire started yesterday and was brought under control with the help of waterbombing helicopters.

Nine crews remained at the scene overnight.

There were fears toxic smoke was being emitted from the smouldering rubbish.

The fire is expected to burn for days and the rubbish tip has been closed until further notice.

Insulation fault suspected in latest house fire

Fire investigators will sift through the ruins of a family home in western Sydney this morning, amid suspicions faulty insulation could have set it on fire.

Fireman John Roach says the home at Woodpark has suffered very bad structural damage and may have to be demolished after its roof collapsed during the blaze.

The fire could be the 106th linked to the Government’s home insulation program.

While the scheme was axed last month, the Government is still facing serious questions about who knew what and when, in regards to safety warnings.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the co-ordinator general advised the cabinet on the implementation of the program “from time to time”.

“I’m advised that in the co-ordinator general’s reports over that period of time no safety concerns were raised,” he said last month.

The Federal Opposition believes this assurance was a “gotcha” moment.

It says Mr Rudd must give a full explanation to Parliament next week, detailing all the warnings he was given about the program.

It says Mr Rudd was given a safety warning by the former minister Peter Garrett, and it points to the Prime Minister’s admission in Parliament yesterday that he received a letter on August 14.

Mr Rudd says he received a number of letters after that date too and he was asked to release them.

“These obviously are associated with the cabinet process and we are appropriately protected,” he said.

This means the public may never know what was in the letters.

Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt says the Australian people deserve a full statement from the Prime Minister on the floor of the Parliament next week.

“It’s very clear that – on the evidence before the Parliament and on the word around Canberra – that the Prime Minister’s department was not only told and warned about safety risks but also watered down the safety recommendations of the environment department,” he said.

“We have reason to believe that the Government did get warnings and recommendations for better safety standards than were adopted in the program and that it was the Prime Minister’s department through the project control group that watered those safety recommendations. And the Prime Minister denied that he had any safety knowledge on the 23rd of last month.

“Now, in Parliament just this week, only yesterday, he confessed that had had warnings from Peter Garrett on the 14th of August. But he won’t say what was in them.”

Mr Hunt says the Opposition has deep reservations about the Government plunging in and repeating the same mistakes again.

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Los Angeles Fire – Getty Fire  – Getty Fire Slows 405 Traffic in Los – Getty Fire 2009 – Getty Center Fire – Sepulveda Pass Fire – Getty Center – 405 Fire – La Fire – Fire At Getty – Fire Los Angeles – Fire Getty – Getty Center Fire

A brush fire that broke out around 1 p.m. in the Sepulveda Pass near Getty Center, in the Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Fire Department SpLos Angelesokesman Erik Scott said, more than 150 firefighters are battling,

fire has burned more than 10 acres and is moving in the north direction. The fire was jamming traffic on the nearby 405 Freeway. Scott said no s battlingtructures are immediately threatened at this time.

A well-known art complex ,Getty Center and  Mount St. Mary’s College both were evacuated.

Fisher Plaza – Seattle Fire – Seattle News – Fisher Plaza Seattle – authorize.net down Fisher Plaza Fire – Big Fish Games down due to Fire – Fire disrupts stations at Seattle’s Fisher Plaza

Fisher Plaza – Seattle Fire – Seattle News – Fisher Plaza Seattle – authorize.net down Fisher Plaza Fire – Big Fish Games down due to Fire – Fire disrupts stations at Seattle’s Fisher Plaza

Big Fish Games has been down all morning due to the small fire broke out around 11 p.m. thursday in the basement of Fisher Plaza at an electrical vault – the section of the building where city power lines meet the building’s transformers, said Seattle City Light spokesman Scott Thomsen, the largest data center in Seattle Posting on GameBoomers.com, Big Fish Games  power was out to the whole building and urged fans to be patient, said Seattle City Light spokesman Scott Thomsen.

“Fisher plaza is the hosting facility for hundreds of companies, so this is a major Internet disruption.

The fire forced the evacuation of the building and disrupted the late night newscast, said Rob Dunlop, vice president of operations for Fisher Communications Inc.

KOMO Radio and KOMO-TV are broadcasting Friday from remote locations.

Bandra Fire – Fire in Bandra Slums – Fire in Garibnagar Area – Bandra

Bandra Fire – Fire in Bandra Slums – Fire in Garibnagar Area – Bandra

MUMBAI: A fire broke out in a slum adjoining the suburban Bandra railway station in Mumbai in the wee hours on Thursday, leaving 15 people injured and gutting about 200 shanties.

The fire broke out around 0400 hours in the Garibnagar area, disaster management officials said, adding the cause is yet to be ascertained.

“Twenty five fire engines, 16 water tankers and four ambulances were sent to the spot to aide fire fighting operations. So far about 14-15 people have sustained injuries and two have been admitted to Bhabha hospital in Bandra,” they said.

The fire is still to be put out but officials said the situation is under control.

Train services on the Western Railway were largely unaffected by the fire.

- TimesofIndia

Massive fire engulfs optical fibre cable factory in UP

Allahabad, May 10 (ANI): A massive fire engulfed an optical fibre cable factory in Naini area of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday.

The fire broke out at 7.30 a.m. in the Hindustan Cable Limited factory and soon spread causing panic amongst the people.

Around seven fire engines were called in to control the raging fire.

“Fire broke out at around 7.30 in the morning at the Hindustan Cable factory. Fire engines are deployed in dousing the fire,” said Ram Avataar Verma, stationfficer, Naini.

Scrap optical fibre worth thousands of rupees was destroyed in the fire. The cause of the fire is still not known.
Last year also, a similar fire broke out at Hindustan Cable factory.(ANI)

Fire in Ghaziabad meat processing unit owned by BSP candidate

GHAZIABAD: A major fire broke out on Friday in a meat processing unit here owned by a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader who is contesting the Lok
Sabha polls from Delhi’s Chandni Chowk constituency, a fire officer said.

“We received the call at 12 pm from the factory at Dasna. About 10 fire tenders were pressed into service. After about three hours, we could control the fire,” fire officer A P Singh said.

He said the blaze broke out due to an electrical short circuit.

Mohammad Mustaqueem, the owner of Al-Nafees Frozen Food Export, is a BSP leader and contesting parliamentary elections. The meat processing unit exports to European and Arab countries.