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Fire Erupts During Demolition of Quake-Damaged Chimney at Paper Factory in Japan – WTOP News

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TOKYO (AP) — A fire broke out Thursday during the demolition of an earthquake-damaged chimney at a paper factory in Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto. Footage on NHK national television showed an orange blaze coming from one of the broken chimneys at the factory, with billowing black smoke rising into the sky. The municipal fire...

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Fire Breaks Out in Chimney at Paper Mill in Kumamoto Pref.; Chimney Collapsed at Same Facility in Earthquake in July

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Fire erupts during demolition of quake-damaged chimney at paper factory in Japan

A fire has broken out during the demolition of a chimney at a paper factory in Japan's Kumamoto prefecture.

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Japanese media: Shortly before 6 p.m., the fire department received a report that "a fire had broken out in the chimney that was being dismantled" at the Nippon Paper Industries Yatsushiro Plant in Yatsushiro City, where the chimney had collapsed during the Kumamoto earthquake.

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Fire Occurs at Quake-Hit Nippon Paper Plant in Kumamoto

Kumamoto, Sept. 3 (Jiji Press)--A fire broke out Thursday afternoon at a Nippon Paper Industries Co. plant hea…

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Fire Breaks Out in Chimney of Nippon Paper Industries Yatsushiro Plant in Yatsushiro City

According to the Yatsushiro Regional Fire Department in Kumamoto Prefecture, a fire broke out in a chimney at the Nippon Paper Industries Yatsushiro Plant in Jujo-cho, Yatsushiro City, on the afternoon of the 3rd. Firefighters are currently working to extinguish the blaze.

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