24 Killed in French Blaze
An early-morning fire raced through one wing of a state-run home for the elderly in Grandvilliers, France, killing 24 residents and forcing 156 patients out into the subzero darkness, police reported. About 100 firefighters, hampered by freezing hoses, fought the blaze until morning. Police said the fire started after a frozen pipe burst, spilling water onto electrical wires, which short-circuited. The town is about 60 miles northwest of Paris.
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