LONDON, UK — The explosion also caused damage to a shop underneath the flat, which is owned by a company belonging to Jewish multimillionaire Leo Noe.

Mr Noe, who is worth £600m, was also notified and arrived at the property in Bell Lane, Hendon, shortly afterwards.

Members of the voluntary Jewish North West Community Patrol who, had been patrolling the surrounding area, were first on the scene.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHN] — A fire broke out earlier today at around 1:45pm in the upper floors of 1628 President Street, which is on the corner of Schenectady Avenue, a large building with many residential units. 911 received many calls from panicking residents who made their way to the roof to escape the heat and smoke.

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GOLETA, CA — A fire that caused an estimated $100,000 to a Jewish religious center and rabbi’s home in Isla Vista on Sunday, resulted from a 5-year-old child playing with matches and candles, fire officials said.

Fire investigators interviewed occupants and examined evidence before determining there was no malicious intent in connection with the blaze at UC Santa Barbara’s Chabad House, County Fire Capt. Eli Iskow said.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Cooler weather helped thousands of firefighters begin to get a grip on Australia's deadliest bushfires on Wednesday but 181 people were confirmed dead in parts of the southeast devastated by the infernos.

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GOLETA, CA — A fire torched parts of the UCSB Chabad House yesterday, leaving the rabbi’s residence with extensive damage.

According to Capt. Eli Iskow of the Santa Barbara Fire Dept., the fire began at noon in a bedroom at 779 Camino Pescadero - the new UCSB Chabad House, a local Orthodox Jewish religious center. Parts of the first and second floors were completely scorched by the flames.

AUSTRALIA — As the death toll rose in the worst wildfires to strike Australia in recent memory, the nation’s tight-knit Jewish community mounted an effort to help citizens whose homes and towns have been utterly destroyed.

HEALESVILLE, Australia [MYFOX] — Towering flames razed entire towns in southeastern Australia and burned fleeing residents in their cars as the death toll rose to 84 on Sunday, making it the country's deadliest fire disaster.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHN] — At around 6:30 PM Thursday evening a fire broke out in the basement of Esti's Pharmacy, a new Jewish Pharmacy in Crown Heights located on Troy Avenue and Eastern Parkway. The fire department was immediately notified, multiple fire trucks responded and managed to extinguish the blaze within a short period of time. Baruch Hashem their were no injuries reported. 

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [NY1] — A plaque was dedicated Saturday to a Brooklyn firefighter who lost his life in the line of duty last year. Family and friends of Lieutenant John Martinson joined Mayor Bloomberg, Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta and other members of the FDNY in Engine 249 Ladder 113 in Crown Heights.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHN] — While thousands of Chasidim were Farbrenging around Crown Heights in honor of Yud Tes Kislev a fire broke out at around 7:00pm Tuesday evening in an apartment building occupied by Jewish residents located on Eastern Parkway between Kingston and Brooklyn Avenues. The fire broke out in an apartment on the fifth floor.

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MONSEY, NY [CHN] — The  Bardichiver  Shul  building  on  Rita Avenue,  which hosted K'hal Tzemach  Tzedek  after  its  own  fire,  had a fire yesterday. The fire department was immediately notified, and had the fire under control after a short few minutes of battling it. At this time it is not clear to us at to  what started the fire. Boruch Hashem there were no injuries.

Traffic is diverted the wrong direction back over a bridge to the 241 toll road after a brush fire shut down west bound Interstate 91 in Yorba Linda, Calif., Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008. (AP Photo)

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHN] — Early Sunday morning at around 3:45am a fire broke out in a non Jewish home on President Street between Albany and Troy Avenues. Initial reports have the fire tagged as “suspicious” but the cause of it is still unknown. Residents living in nearby houses were woken up from the smell of smoke and were seen exiting their homes.

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CHATSWORTH, CA [CHN] — Preparations are under way in Chabad of Chatsworth as the raging fires burn in the streets of the city, smoke and ash fill the air along with wind gusts that can exceed 80 MPH. Accommodations are being arranged by the Rabbi and his wife for people who's Sukah's have been destroyed or blown away, to come and join them for the joyous Holiday.

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What is being described as a miracle by family members, a Chaifa chareidi family on Monday night escaped near-death when an explosion rocked their Michael Street home, resulting in a major fire in the home as the children were fast asleep. The cause of the explosion has yet to be determined.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHN] — Friday, at approximately 4:45pm the Fire Department was called to Happy Dry Cleaners located at 316 Kingston Avenue on a report that two machines were on fire in the back of the store. FDNY arrived and put out the fire before it could get bigger. CrownHeights.CH has learned that B''H there was no damage to clothing or the store, the machines where fixed the very next day.

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Fallsburg police have charged Smith, of Fallsburg with burning down this bungalow on Aug. 29 at the intersection of Laurel Avenue and Brickman Road. Photo Credit: THR-MICHELE HASKELL.

FALLSBURG, NY — The Fallsburg fire chief has been arrested in connection with the August 29 arson of a bungalow at a Jewish summer camp in Sullivan County.

James Smith, 33, was arrested Wednesday on felony charges of third-degree arson and burglary and second-degree criminal mischief. He was also charged with misdemeanor official misconduct and solicitation.

Multiple explosions woke residents near a propane depot in Toronto's Wilson Ave. and Keele St. area in the early morning of Sunday. Photo: Rene Johnston/Toronto Star.

TORONTO, Canada — A massive fire and series of explosions at a propane depot has forced a large-scale evacuation of a northwest neighbourhood in Toronto this morning.

Several explosions rocked the Sunrise Propane facility in the Wilson Ave. and Keele St. area, early this morning. There have been reports of injuries.

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According to the Oakland Fire Department, the Aug. 2 one-alarm blaze caused about $30,000 worth of damage to the Oakland Kosher Market, which supplies meat, dairy and other foodstuffs adhering to Jewish dietary standards. Because the fire happened on Shabbat, when the store is closed, no one was hurt.

As firefighters plowed forward in a 10-day battle against raging flames known as the Gap Fire in the wooded mountains around S. Barbara and Goleta, Calif., a Jewish center just one block from the evacuation line continued to offer support to displaced and anxious residents.

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KFAR CHABAD, Israel — A fire broke out Shabbos in the shul of the Vocational School in Kfar Chabad that had been housing dozens of bochurim from the yeshiva in Nachlas Har Chabad and from the yeshiva of the "Young Shluchim" in Tsfas who came to spend this Shabbos in Kfar Chabad together with Rabbi Yoel Kahn.

Today, a large blaze destroyed a wheat field belonging to the Kfar Chabad Community Council, which is located on the road leading to the Beis Rivka College and extends as far as the Ben Gurion airfield. Hundreds of dunams of wheat crop, sown before Shemittah, went up in flames. It took fire services an unusually long time to arrive, and even when the first fire truck turned up it was delayed and was unable to reach the scene of the fire for a while.

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Police and fire fighters are investigating a fire that severely damaged a Miami Beach Chabad synagogue late Monday night. The synagogue’s only Torah was stolen and all the religious objects in the shul, including all the prayer books and prayer shawls were burnt.

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A suspicious fire early Tuesday morning has destroyed the Shul of the Chabad House on Wheels in Miami Beach, FL.

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