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A fire has burnt down a warehouse of electronics product manufacturing company Singer in Chattogram. The blaze broke out in the warehouse in the port city’s AK Khan area around 5:45 am on Tuesday, said Purna Chandra Mutsuddi, the deputy assistant director of the divisional fire service. Twe...More >

江原道高城のＤＭＺ一帯で山火事…３時間で鎮火  Updated: 2019-05-05    江原道高城郡杆城邑広山里（カンウォンド・コソングン・カンソンウプ・クァンサンリ）の非武装地帯（ＤＭＺ）付近で４日、山火事が発生したが３時間で鎮火した。       江原道山火事防止対策本部によると、山火事はこの日午後１時２０分ごろ発生した。陸軍２２師団の山火事発生申告は山林庁まで通知された。       山火事発生を受け対策本部は山林航空本部のヘリコプター３機と高城郡のヘリコプター１機を投入し、午後４時５分に鎮火作業を完了した。       対策本...More >

ペンキ工場で大規模な火災＝韓国・軍浦  Updated: 2019-05-01       ３０日午後、京畿道軍浦市堂井洞にある工業用ペンキメーカー「カンナム・ジェビスコ」のペイント工場で発生した火災の様子。（写真提供＝京畿道消防災難本部）    　３０日午後９時５分ごろ、京畿道軍浦市堂井洞（キョンギド・クンポシ・タンジョンドン）にある工業用ペンキメーカーのカンナム・ジェビスコ（ＫＡＮＧＮＡＭ　ＪＥＶＩＳＣＯ）のペンキ工場で大規模な火災が発生した。       化学物質などが多いため、消防当局は最高対応段階「３」を発令し、消防車７２台と消...More >

Godown of Karan Johar’s production house in Mumbai catches fire   Updated: 2019-05-01    　In an unpleasant turn of events, Bollywood’s producer-filmmaker Karan Johar’s production house Dharma Productions’ godown in Mumbai caught fire. The fire reportedly started at 2.30 in the mor...More >

Field fires hit air quality in Karnal Updated: 2019-05-01 KARNAL: Fire incidents in fields have increased the pollution level in Karnal, and with that the number of eyes, skin and asthma patients in various hospital of the district has also risen.    Track the pollution level in your city  ...More >

ペンキ工場で大規模な火災＝韓国・軍浦  Updated: 2019-05-01    　３０日午後９時５分ごろ、京畿道軍浦市堂井洞（キョンギド・クンポシ・タンジョンドン）にある工業用ペンキメーカーのカンナム・ジェビスコ（ＫＡＮＧＮＡＭ　ＪＥＶＩＳＣＯ）のペンキ工場で大規模な火災が発生した。       化学物質などが多いため、消防当局は最高対応段階「３」を発令し、消防車７２台と消防士２１０人を動員して消火活動にあたった。       近くの住民には災害ショートメッセージサービス（ＳＭＳ）が発信された。３～４キロ離れた住宅街でも爆発音が聞こえた。  ...More >

Car catches fire at Depot Road carpark; SCDF investigating Updated: 2019-04-30 SINGAPORE - The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) is investigating after a car caught fire while parked at a multi-storey carpark near Block 104C Depot Road on Monday (April 29). Footage of the incident was uplo...More >

Security guard kills woman, sets himself on fire  Updated: 2019-04-27    　The Media Hotel and Towers in Sawah Besar, Central Jakarta, was in the spotlight last week -- for all the wrong reasons.    Last Thursday, a fire broke out in a change room in the hotel’s basement killing a secu...More >

Two kiosks destroyed in fire in Tanah Abang  Updated: 2019-04-22        　Fire trucks line up near the Blok C building in Tanah Abang Market on Monday to put out a fire that reportedly destroyed two kiosks. (kompas.com/Pavel Tanujaya)  A fire destroyed two kiosks in Blok C of th...More >

Nine fishing tour boats catch fire in Satun  Updated: 2019-04-20        　Fire rages through fishing tour boats at Pakbara pier in Satun on Saturday morning, damaging nine vessels. The cause of the blaze is being investigated. (Photo taken from Suesarn Dabploeng Koopai Facebook page)  ...More >

Fishing trip boats destroyed by fire  Updated: 2019-04-20            　A fire destroyed eight tourist fishing boats in Satun province early on Saturday, police said. The fire broke out at the Pak Bara pier and spread quickly from a fishing boat to seven other boats.    The boats wer...More >

Fire at Bali Airport temporarily disrupts domestic flights  Updated: 2019-04-20    　Several check-in counters for domestic flights at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport in Badung, Bali, have been temporarily moved to the international terminal after fire broke out in the domestic term...More >

One dead in fire in Central Jakarta hotel  Updated: 2019-04-19        　Firefighters work to put out fire in a store in Pasar Baru, Central Jakarta in this file photo taken on Feb. 27. 2018. (Antara/Galih Pradipta)    A fire in a store room at The Media Hotel and Towers in J...More >

Fire battle a team effort  Updated: 2019-04-18    　A massive fire engulfing vast areas of a Chiang Rai forest has intensified the smog problem in this northernmost province, adding to the country's pollution woes.    For more than a month, many people in parts of Chiang Rai have ...More >

アパート放火、殺人事件  Updated: 2019-04-17    42歳の男性が早朝に本人の家に火をつけ、火だ」を叫んで寝ている人を起こし、避難させたあとに、避難する人々を階段でナイフ刺し、5人が死亡し、13人が負傷した。精神分裂病や通り魔殺人やストーカー殺人の可能性がある。  Web Source: The Nation  https://cafe.naver.com/wecando7/920562 ...More >

Four taken to hospital after Tampines block fire  Updated: 2019-04-15    Four people had to be taken to hospital after flames torched the 11th-floor corridor of a Tampines Housing Board block yesterday.  The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), which was alerted to the fire at Bloc...More >

Patong blaze causes Bt60m damage  Updated: 2019-04-13        An estimated Bt60 million in damage was caused when fire swept through a row of shops in Banana Walk on Thaweewong Road in Patong on Friday night.          The fire started in a faulty electrical transformer...More >

Millions of rai of forested land destroyed by wildfires  Updated: 2019-04-13    　    Forest fires have destroyed more than 2.6 million rai of forests in nine northern provinces, the Mae Hong Son forest fire and haze control centre said on Friday.       Citing a satellite im...More >

Bangkok's CentralWorld shopping mall to reopen as officials downplay fire threat  Updated: 2019-04-12    　    BANGKOK - Bangkok's CentralWorld shopping mall, which was hit by a fire earlier this week that killed two people, will reopen for business on Friday (April 12) after officials...More >

Explosion at Petronas oil refinery in Johor injures two  Updated: 2019-04-12    　    PENGERANG • Two men were injured after a fire and explosion occurred early yesterday morning at an oil refinery being developed by Malaysian national oil firm Petronas in Johor.    Petronas...More >