Nocere – Earth Disasters

There were 480 people rescued from the burning home in the early hours on Monday. 9 people didn’t make it out.

A retirement home on the northwest side of Moscow caught fire Monday morning. It was started by a person who lived there trying to kill himself.

A man took gasoline and doused himself with it. Then he set himself on fire. He was 86 years of age and a World War 2 veteran.

The man, Nikolai Dudin, did die from his injuries. There were 8 others who died besides him. The others died of smoke inhalation.

The gas container was later found in the mans room. The fire has now been listed as arson.

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In the north eastern parts of China, in the province of  Heilongjiang, a passenger plane crashed. There were at least 42 people on board the plane the died.

There were 96 people on board the plane at the time of the crash. As it over shot the runway trying to land at Yichun City’s airport, it exploded into flames. The accident happened at 1336 GMT. 5 of the people on board were crew members.

Of the people that survived the wreckage, 3 of the 49 are listed in serious condition.

The plane departed the provincial capital of Harbin at 2051. It was an Embraer ERJ-190.

Among the people on board the flight was 5 children.

Most of the people who survived did not have serious injuries.

It is possible that the airport had been covered in fog at the time of the accident.

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Possibly up to 40 people died in and accident with a lorry carrying sugar that wrecked into a highway checkpoint. Flames shot from the lorry as it hit cars sitting in line.

There were many cars and two minibuses loaded with passengers waiting in line on the Lagos-Ibadan road.

20 different vehicles where damaged and a great deal of bodies that were burnt so bad that no one could tell who they were.

Police are reported as saying that there was no checkpoint on the road on Sunday.

According to Umar Shehu Elleman in Lagos, it is not unusual for police to have roadblocks that aren’t assigned by the police force. They set them up to take bribes.

There is no definite number of how many people died in the accident.

They only know by what witness’s have reported as seeing,  two minibuses and some cars. A minibus can have up to 18 riders at a time.

It is also been reported by that the lorry owners, that their two people in the truck died in the accident.

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On Friday, while many were working in the Luoshan Gold Mine in Zhaoyuan, a fire ignited in the mine, taking 14 lives.

At this time, 23 miners remain trapped inside the mine. Another 292 make it out to safety.

The fire began at approximately 5pm Friday evening. It is possible that a cable under the surface may have sparked causing the fire.

Many of the workers that were hurt in the accident have been transported to two area hospitals.

The mine is managed by the Lingnan Mining Company.

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There were 17 people who perished in the flames of the retirement home as people tried to rescue as many as possible.

The 18th person died of a possible heart attack. The resident passed away not long after being rescued from the home.

There were 84 residents in the home that were evacuated as quickly as they could be. The home was over taken by flames as the last of the residents, 17 of them , did not make it out.

The remains of the 17 who perished in the flames were found once the fire was put out.

The was one resident, a man, who had 40% burns and was taken by air to a Johannesburg hospital.

There were also two other residents who suffered from serious wounds taken to area hospitals.

The other residents were being treated for smoke inhalation at an area church by paramedics.

A guard at the building did all he could to save some of the residents.

“Maybe I saved eight or nine people but some of them were too big and I could not carry them,” the guard told the news agency Agence France Presse.

The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.

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It is being reported  that 40 people have perished due to the wildfires in Russia.

There were as many as 500 new fires found over a 24 hour time period. Most were put out.

People have lost their homes in 14 different areas of Russia. The areas that have been hit the hardest are Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh and Ryazan.

Of the 40 people that have perished, 19 of the people were in Niahny Novgorod according to the health minister.

A state of emergency has been declared in an effort to keep the public out of the areas where the fires are.

Moscow is said to be once more covered with smoke from the fires.

The drought has been a main factor in the fires. Temperatures have gone higher then ever in the past. Wheat prices are being driven higher by the drought affecting the harvest.

It is possible that strong winds could be in the forecast which would cause the fires to burn even stronger by fanning the flames.

There are thousands of homeless people due to their homes being burnt down.

A quarter of a million people have been brought in to help extinguish the fires.

In Moscow, the doctors are advising the elderly and young children to wear gauze masks over their faces when out of doors.

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On Wednesday, the firefighters who had been fighting the fierce wildfires on the north side of Los Angeles, prepared for the strong winds that were expected to arrive during the afternoon hours.

There had already been nearly 40 houses destroyed by the fires. About 2300 people had been relocated from their homes. Another 150 houses could be in the line of danger from the flames.

The fire started on Tuesday. It was 10 miles on the southeastern side of Tehachapi. The fire burned down 30 to 40 homes in that area. The other homes that were possibly threatened by the raging fire, 150 of them, are in the Old West Ranch community.

The fire is being fueled by dead timber from years without much rain. Drought conditions have left much dry wood in the states mountainous area.

There are around 250 firefighters battling the raging flames. They are from many different fire departments.

There are also water drops being brought in by airplanes and being dropped on the 1,230 acres of where the fire is burning relentlessly.

They are working day and night with bulldozers making fire lines and burning firebreaks.

There are more fires in other areas of the state In Kern County, a northern part of the state, another fire began on Monday in the Sequoia National Forest. It burned close to 15,600 acres. This is close to 24 miles of forest. There were 6 homes burnt down in that fire.

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The fire occurred in a hotel in the northern parts of Iraq. It took 30 lives and caused injury to at least 40 other people. 14 of the dead were foreigners.

The fire was in the Soma Hotel which is located in Suleimaniya. It is thought to have been started by an electrical fault. Some of the people jumped to their death trying to get away from the hot fire.

There is no reason to believe that the fire was a terrorist act.

Mirwan Saeed was in the hotel at the time of the fire. He jumped from the roof of the hotel and suffered broken legs. He said he had no alternative but to jump. His room was filling with smoke.

Some firemen were also taken over by smoke.

Other then Iraqis, there were people from Australia, UK, Canada, Venezuela, Lebanon, South Africa and Bangladesh that perished as a result of the fire.

There were at least 4 ladies and 4 children that also died.

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