• Leak, fire at Indian ice plant

    By Mish Whalen

    According to Reuters: A huge fire broke out at an ice plant in eastern India after an ammonia gas leak and then spread to an adjacent cotton godown in Kolkata, local media reported on Monday.

    Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters

    People attempt to extinguish a fire at a cold storage unit in Kolkata on January 10, 2011.

    Piyal Adhikary / EPA

    Firefighters battle to extinguish a huge fire in an ice factory in India on January 10, 2010.

    Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters

    Firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a cold storage unit in Kolkata on January 10, 2011.

    Firefighters struggled for four hours to contain the blaze. No injuries were reported. TODAYshow.com's Dara Brown reports.

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  • Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters

    A man helps firefighters to extinguish fire in the outskirts of the Russian city of Voronezh, July 29, 2010. Russia's worst drought for decades is set to drag on for at least the next 7 days in some areas but further serious damage to grain crops is not expected, a senior government weather forecaster said on Thursday.

    Leaky hose

    These peat bog fires in Russia sound like a miserable situation. I wonder if this man's helpful gesture had much effect.