Athar Hussain / Reuters
Men try to move sacks of onions to a safer place during a fire in a wholesale vegetable and fruit market, in the outskirts of Karachi on March 6, 2013. A fire broke out in the market Wednesday evening, causing massive damage but no casualties were reported, according to local media.
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View of a huge fire at the 'City of Science' in Naples, Italy, on March 4.
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View of a huge fire at the 'City of Science' in Naples, Italy, on March 4.
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Members of the fire services continue to hose down a smouldering building amid the scene of devastation in Naples on March 5 following the night time blaze that destroyed much of the southern Italian port's City of Science complex.
Fire Brigades in action the day after the massive blaze that destroyed much of Naples Città della Scienza
From Corriere della Sera: Naples, Italy - Four pavilions have been gutted by fire at Naples’ Città della Scienza [Science City], the interactive museum considered one of the city’s cultural treasures. The entire Città della Scienza site, which has a total of six pavilions, has been placed under judicial seizure. When fire fighters arrived on the scene on Monday evening, they found flames had swept the whole of the sea-front museum zone, except for the theatre. Continue reading this story here.
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A man center, reacts as Bangladeshi firefighters and volunteers work to douse a fire at the Kallyanpur Natun Bazar slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Feb. 27.
A fire swept through a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Wednesday. According to police, at least 300 shanties were gutted. No casualties were reported.
--The Associated Press
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Bangladeshi firefighters and volunteers search the debris of a congested slum after a fire swept through it in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Feb. 27.
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Family members react after a fire broke out in a slum at Kallayanpur in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Feb. 27. The cause of the fire is not yet known and no casualties have been reported.
A.M. Ahad / AP
Smoke rises from a slum after a fire swept through it in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Feb. 27.
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Morelug farm is water-bombed by helicopter on Jan. 29, in Paarl, South Africa. Scores of firefighters are fighting a runaway veld fire that swept through the entire Boland region in the Western Cape, according to SABC News. Veld fires are fires that occur in the open countryside away from urban areas. Veld comes from the Afrikaans word for field.
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A man carries a man injured in a fire at the Kiss club in Santa Maria city, Brazil, early Jan. 27.
"It was really fast. There was a lot of smoke, really dark smoke," survivor Aline Santos Silva, 29, told Globonews TV. "We were only able to get out quickly because we were in a VIP area close to the door."
-- Reported by NBC News and wire reports
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Firefighters try to extinguish a fire at Kiss nightclub in the southern city of Santa Maria, Brazil.
Agencia RBS via AP
People help a man injured in a nightclub fire in Santa Maria city, Brazil, on Sunday.
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Relatives of those trapped in a nightclub fire in southern Brazil mourn on Sunday.
A fire broke out early Sunday morning at a night club in Santa Maria, in southern Brazil, killing revelers — many of them students. NBC's Mike Taibbi reports.
Reuters
A fast-moving nightclub inferno claimed the lives of more than 230 people in southern Brazil.
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A woman weeps as she speaks on the phone in her burnt-out house after a fire raged through the Nayanagar slum in Mumbai on Jan. 25, 2013.
A fire killed six people when it ripped through a slum in the heart of the Indian city, leaving hundreds homeless, emergency services said.
-- Agence France-Presse
At least six people were killed when fire swept through a Mumbai neighborhood that destroyed more than 50 homes. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
John Gress / Reuters
Firefighters spray down hot spots on an ice covered warehouse that caught fire Tuesday night in Chicago on Jan. 23. Fire department officials said it is the biggest fire the department has had to battle in years and one-third of all Chicago firefighters were on the scene at one point or another trying to put out the flames.
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A truck is covered in ice as firefighters help to extinguish a massive blaze at a vacant warehouse on Jan. 23 in Chicago, Ill.
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A firefighter helps to extinguish a massive blaze at a vacant warehouse on Jan. 23 in Chicago, Ill. More than 200 firefighters battled a five-alarm fire as temperatures were in the single digits.
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Chicago firefighters battle a five-alarm blaze in single digit temperatures at a warehouse on the city's South Side, Bridgeport neighborhood on Jan. 23 in Chicago.
By John Newland and Daniel Arkin, NBC News
A massive fire ripped through a warehouse in Chicago's South Side Tuesday night, as firefighters were hampered by bone-chilling temperatures so low that water froze on their uniforms.
The 170 firefighters on the scene battled the elements on two fronts as the monster blaze consumed a warehouse building, endangering an adjacent structure, while temperatures dipped into the single-digits.
“This is a major fire,” the Chicago Fire Department posted on Twitter, adding that the scale of the response -- five alarms plus two “special” calls for additional trucks -- was “extremely rare.” Continue reading.
Related: Chicago firefighters battle major blaze in freezing temperatures
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Firefighters work to extinguish a massive blaze at a vacant warehouse on Jan. 23 in Chicago.
Flames rekindled at a Chicago warehouse, which had ignited in fire Tuesday night. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
Chicago Fire Department
A photo released on Twitter by Chicago Fire Media shows a warehouse on fire on Jan. 22, 2013.
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Chicago firefighters battle a five-alarm blaze in single-digit temperatures at a warehouse on the city's South Side on Jan. 23, 2013.
Charles Rex Arbogast / AP
An ice-covered pair of gloves belonging to a Chicago firefighter stand on a railing behind him in single-digit temperatures during a five-alarm blaze in the city's Bridgeport neighborhood on Jan. 23, 2013.
Charles Rex Arbogast / AP
Icicles form on a fire hose from single digit temperatures as Chicago firefighters battle a five-alarm blaze in the city's South Side on Jan. 23, 2013.
By John Newland, Staff Writer, NBC News
A five-alarm fire ripped through a warehouse in Chicago’s South Side Tuesday night.
“This is a major fire,” the Chicago Fire Department posted on Twitter, adding that the scale of the response – five alarms plus two “special” calls for additional trucks -- was “extremely rare.” About 170 firefighters were on the scene.
“This fire has about one-third of the city fire apparatus at this location,” the department said on Twitter. Read the full story.
Related: Fire and ice: Icicles cover smoky remains of massive Chicago blaze
Firefighters in Chicago spent the night battling a five-alarm blaze in single-digit temperatures. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
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Firefighters attempt to extinguish a fire that engulfed a residential area in Manila, Philippines, Jan. 19. Nearly 50 houses were destroyed leaving 100 families homeless.
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A kangaroo crossing a road in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, as it escapes from a bushfire. Several homes have been lost in a 25,000-hectare fire in Victoria's southeast.
Kerry Lawrence / NSW Rural Fire Service via AP
A fire burns in the Ku-Ring-Gai National Park on Jan. 18, 2013.
Firefighters are battling scores of wildfires in southeastern Australia as hot, dry and windy conditions combine to raise the threat, The Associated Press reports.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports that emergency warnings are in place in the states of Victoria and New South Wales, and that the body of a man was found on Friday in a burnt-out vehicle near the town of Seaton.
The BBC reported on Friday that Sydney was experiencing its hottest day on record, with temperatures in the city reaching 45.8 degrees Celsius (114.44 degrees Fahrenheit).
Damian Shaw / EPA
People try to escape the heat by standing under a fire hose at Big Day Out music festival in Sydney on Jan. 18, 2013.
Julian Smith / EPA
A bushfire burns near Seaton, east of Melbourne, on Jan. 18, 2013. Reports state that a bushfire burning mainly in forest country about 200km east of Melbourne is 'as bad as it gets' and could continue for days or even weeks.
Tracey Nearmy / EPA
Rural Fire Service volunteers battle spot fires threatening homes and heading towards the Newell Highway south of the town of Coonabarabran on Jan. 18, 2013. A large 40,000 hectare bush fire is burning in the Warrumbungle National Park. Fires have destroyed more than 40 homes in New South Wales.
NSW Rural Fire Service via Reuters
A bushfire burns on Melbourne Street in Cessnock, about 75 miles north of Sydney, on Jan. 18, 2013.
Record high temperatures heat up the Australian city of Sydney with the mercury hitting 114.44 degrees Fahrenheit. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
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A man rides a horse through a bonfire on January 16 in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain. In honor of San Anton, the patron saint of animals, horses are riden through the bonfires on the night before the official day of honoring animals in Spain.
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A man drinks wine near a bonfire in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain.
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People ride horses through a bonfire in San Bartolome de Pinares.
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A child looks at a bonfire on January 16, 2013 in San Bartolome de Pinares
Akintunde Akinleye / Reuters
A man paddles a canoe through a swamp after an oil pipeline explosion caused by people who tried to steal fuel at Arepo village, just outside Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos, Jan. 13. At least three people were seen dead, according to a Reuters witness.
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