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20-years-ago: DC firefighters Louis Matthews & Anthony Phillips killed in townhouse fire
Fire badly burned Joe Morgan
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Is someone at NIST trying to set the standard for a meth lab?
Weekend explosion in lab leads to drug investigation
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15-years-ago: DC firefighters Louis Matthews & Anthony Phillips killed in townhouse fire
Firefighter Joe Morgan was critically burned in same fire
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Plane crash finally shows safety advantage in lightweight construction. But collapse video at fire tells the real story.
This is not what the Jetsons promised.
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A must read: FDNY begins tests that could change tactics. Ventilation & basement fires are among things to be studied in burning of rowhomes on Governors Island.
The December fire in Brooklyn that critically burned a firefighter is one of the reasons FDNY is looking closely at…
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More on home separation, lightweight construction & sprinklers. Watch 2004 NIST test & hear the views of a VA fire chief.
Video clearly shows the impact of providing a fire barrier in an outside wall assembly.
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Fireground audio from Manassas, Virginia multi-house fire. Video as first crews arrive. Home builders group says sprinklers wouldn't have helped. FM disagrees.
Two homes were burning as firefighters arrived with a third about to light off.
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Exposure problem: Neighbor's video captures fire spread between single family homes.
Video shows fire traveling from one single-family home to the next.
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