On July 31, the crew of a U.S. Apache helicopter was successfully evacuated when it was forced to land after coming under attack from ground fire.
The ICRC said ground fire casualties could not be evacuated from the battlefield to hospitals in Baghdad because U.S. and Iraqi forces were not letting ambulances through.
The crash caused a ground fire at the point of impact, possibly knocking down cable or telephone lines, said Dennis Shell, a spokesman for the Orange County Fire Authority.
Ever since it was all but razed to the ground by fire in 1871, Chicago has made every effort to use the opportunity to improve itself: one of the first buildings to be reconstructed was its public library.
Here was this big hole in the ground--fire coming out of the ground, buildings like stubs, body parts being carried out by firefighters and police officers.
Two other people aboard were injured, as was one person on the ground, Assistant Fire Chief John Corthier said late Sunday.
Tuesday's announcement comes a day after a mosque in Joplin, Missouri, burned to the ground in a fire that federal agents are investigating as a possible arson, and two days after an alleged white supremacist gunman killed six Sikhs and wounded three others, including a police officer, near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Dragging heavy fire hoses along the ground is never easy, but dragging fire hoses across ice?
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The activist reported plumes of black smoke rising over the town and continuous army fire from ground and air attacks.
An activist in the area, who gave his name only as Abu Qasem, told Associated Press news agency by telephone that there were "plumes of black smoke rising over the town, with continuous army fire from ground and air attacks".
Mr. DONATO: And unavailable to surface flames when a fire comes through, whereas after logging, they're all on the ground where they can fuel a fire.
"We cannot call what's happening on the ground a full cease-fire, " he told reporters.
They circled and strafed the ground in a flash of fire and smoke, pulling back just a few minutes later.
Mujagic allegedly opened fire at the ground near the prisoner's feet and one of the bullets hit Cordic in the leg.
It has no troops on the ground and is not exchanging fire with hostile forces (unless you count the odd drone strike).
They are now dug in on high ground and are able to fire on any vehicles using a strategically valuable road near the town of Kargil.
The crash injured two other people aboard the Beechcraft Premier I twin-jet and one person on the ground, South Bend Assistant Fire Chief John Corthier said late Sunday.
Fire forecasters do the same, but as well as simulating the goings-on in the atmosphere, they also add a second numerical model to simulate the fire on the ground.
Nonetheless, with total disregard for his own safety, he called for his men to quickly move back to cover positions as he charged the enemy over exposed ground and under overwhelming enemy fire in order to provide protective fire for his team.
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The US military documents released last month detail civilian deaths, friendly-fire episodes and other ground-level incidents.
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Five other people were in the building in Camden Street when the fire started on the ground floor on Monday evening.
The fire started in a ground floor bathroom, but the smoke had made its way throughout the building, said the officer.
The fire started on the ground floor - which was reportedly used as a warehouse - and quickly spread through the building.
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The fire started on the ground floor at the old Dobbins store on Oldham Street in the Northern Quarter at about 18:00 BST on Thursday.
But on Sunday afternoon, as a tireless patriot was laid to rest in the Jezreel Valley, the ground was not burning with missile fire, it was exploding with fecundity.
For the first time, on-the-ground soldiers will be able to fire at a hidden opponent without having to go up the chain of command to ask for a precision air strike and waste precious time doing so.
Now, earlier in the war, a U.S. commander on the ground reached a temporary cease-fire with the MEK which he justified on the grounds that it enabled our forces to contain the MEK forces in cantonment areas, while not having to fight against them or to actively disarm them.
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This would be a good sign for the iPad Mini, but it could also be that the Kindle Fire is built from the ground up (by Amazon) to be a shopping and consuming device.
Pinpricks of flashlights appeared, then someone started a fire on an open patch of ground.
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For a change, it's the Bosnian Serbs who are most interested in a cease-fire, because they are loosing ground.
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