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Cigarettes blamed for three fire fatalities
Tuesday 9.6.09
CIGARETTES CAUSED all three accidental fire deaths in Tayside last year. The victims, all in their 60s, were trapped in their homes, even though two did have working smoke alarms.

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Neighbour’s horror at ‘dreadful’ fatal fire
Tuesday 2.6.09
A 61-YEAR-OLD man died after a fire in his Broughty Ferry home yesterday. Robert Lindsay Burrows is understood to have been in bed at his Kerrington Crescent house when the blaze broke out.

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£500,000 fire appliance unveiled
Tuesday 2.6.09
Fergus Ewing, Minister for Community Safety, visited Tayside Fire and Rescue today to meet personnel and find out more about the vital community safety and emergency response services delivered to all the communities of Tayside by Tayside Fire and Rescue.

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Investigations continuing into caravan business fire
Wednesday 27.5.09
INVESTIGATIONS INTO the fire which ripped through landmark Tayside business Perthshire Caravans continued yesterday.

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Business gutted by massive blaze
Tuesday 26.5.09
OWNERS OF a landmark Perthshire business were left devastated last night after watching their premises gutted by a spectacular blaze.

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TEENAGER CHARGED WITH MURDER FOLLOWING FIRE
Tuesday 28.4.09
A 17 year old youth was charged with murder last night after a teenage girl died following a fire at a flat in Arbroath over the weekend.

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Dundee flat fire: man in hospital
Tuesday 21.4.09
An elderly man was rushed to hospital today after a fire broke out in his home in Dundee’s Moncur Crescent (writes Debbie Kerr).

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Blaze at derelict garage in Lochee
Friday 17.4.09
THICK SMOKE spewed into the sky above Lochee just after 6pm yesterday when fire took hold at a derelict garage on Benvie Road.

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City coffee shop roaster goes on fire
Thursday 16.4.09
ONE OF Dundee’s oldest shops was hit by fire yesterday when a coffee roaster went up in smoke.

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SNP accused of making fire cover political
Thursday 2.4.09
THE LEADER of Angus Council has responded angrily to the row over this week’s decision to ditch downgrade plans for Monifieth’s Balmossie fire station.

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