“Fires” on The Daily Caller

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine official says a 5-year-old girl was killed and 4,000 people were left homeless in a fire that razed a squatters’ colony near the main port in the capital. (more)

Relief supplies are coming into quake-struck Haiti without people knowing. Coordination seems missing. A United Nations official is calling it “chaos.” All this while victims aren’t being helped. (more)

The following recalls have been announced: (more)

HOUSTON (AP) — Oil and gas company Apache Corp. says a fire erupted on a platform off Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, killing one worker and sending two others to the hospital. (more)

ATHENS, Texas (AP) — Officials say arson is suspected in five east Texas church fires since the beginning of the year. Three have been in one town and two came in one night this week. (more)

OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — Louisiana authorities say a mother and her two young children were killed when their home was engulfed in flames. (more)

BEIJING (AP) — A fire in a southeastern China coal mine trapped and killed 12 workers, an official said Saturday, in the latest fatal accident for China’s mining industry, the deadliest in the world. (more)

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Officials say a church has been set on fire in Malaysia by unidentified attackers amid a growing conflict in the country over the use of the word “Allah” by non-Muslims. (more)

MADERA, Calif. (AP) — Three California Department of Fish and Game biologists were killed Tuesday in a helicopter crash in Sierra National Forest, and officials fear the pilot has died as well. (more)

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — A man who set his co-worker on fire in July has been sentenced to five years of probation after the victim forgave him. (more)

BEIJING (AP) — A fire in a coal mine in central China killed at least seven people Tuesday, and search efforts continued into the night for 20 others trapped underground, the state-run news agency reported. (more)

ATLANTA (AP) — After the luxurious Club Onyx started taking business from other strip clubs, the operators of rival Platinum 21 dreamed up ways to shut it down. (more)

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a freight train collided with a car in Southern California, critically injuring two men in the vehicle. (more)

DETROIT (AP) — Three people are dead after an early-morning fire swept through a Detroit home whose power had been out for months. A fourth person survived by jumping from an upstairs window. (more)

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Bitter cold and snow sweeping into the eastern U.S left part of New England under record snowfall and hit Southerners with subfreezing temperatures that farmers fear could destroy strawberries and other crops. (more)

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) — Authorities have made an arrest in connection with a fire in Northampton that claimed the life of an elderly man and his son. (more)

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bitter chill is settling in across the eastern half of the country, threatening crops, closing schools and making Charleston, S.C., feel more like New York City. Records snows were reported over the weekend in Vermont, and farmers in Florida scrambled Monday to save strawberries and tomatoes. (more)