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UK - A three-year-old boy had a miraculous escape after lightning struck the family home and sent exploding masonry crashing around his bed. A bolt tore a hole in the roof of the dormer bungalow in Flint and exploded a masonry block, sending large lumps of sharp breeze block into the stairwell and into Elis Roberts’ bedroom. Amazingly, Elis slept through ...

DETROIT, MI - Detroit authorities say a pre-dawn fire has killed a 5-year-old boy in a duplex on the city's east side, and arson investigators are seeking the cause of the blaze. The victim's 17-year-old brother says the fire started about 3:30 a.m. Sunday. Andre Williams tells WXYZ-TV that he grabbed his two younger sisters from the smoke-filled house but didn't ...

UK - A group of firefighters got a pleasant surprise when they turned up to release people trapped in a lift - one of them was Geri Halliwell. The former Ginger Spice was one of five left stranded in a shopping centre. The 35-year-old was there to sign copies of her new children's book, Ugenia Lavender. Waiting fans and photographers were ...

WASHINGTON - A fire in southeast Washington has left one person dead and a firefighter injured. Firefighters were called to a garden-style apartment complex just before 8 p.m. Friday in the 400 block of 37th Place, Southeast. D.C. fire department spokesman Alan Etter says they found the body of an adult badly burned in a first-floor apartment. Investigators were not immediately ...

SEATTLE, WA - The city of Seattle has paid $1.8 million to a firefighter injured during a training exercise, ending its fight against a court award in the firefighter's favor. Kevin Locke, now an emergency dispatcher, was badly hurt when he passed out and fell from a ladder in the training accident in 2000. His attorneys argued that those running the ...