Elsewhere in the Caribbean, a lightning strike sparked a fire Monday that destroyed the island home of Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson.

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The fact is we planned very fully to deal with these contingencies which are here now, and we have a system which in a very unsatisfactory state of affairs, a fire strike, is as robust as it could be.

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Yoshito Okubo was guilty of a bad miss early on before Tamada showed his strike partner the way, sliding in to fire home a right-wing cross from Makoto Hasebe in the 21st minute.

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Protesters have called for a statewide strike over the handling of the fire on Tuesday.

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Although no one was made redundant involuntarily, in 2006 the fire-brigade union called a strike.

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But Bale won a free kick on the edge of the box and Ramsey stepped forward to fire in a curling, right-footed strike.

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He denied having a strategy to force workers out on strike purely so he could fire them.

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Fire crews in Essex have begun a 24-hour strike as talks aimed at halting the action continued.

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The fire is thought to have been started by a lightning strike.

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The other Kim also let go of a third of his 17, 200 staff - and is looking to fire 280 more people, despite threats of a workers' strike.

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He, too, hoped to strike it rich, selling off a few items but losing 15, 000 in a fire.

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More than 750 firefighters and support personnel were working in Oregon and Nevada to corral the 418, 235-acre Holloway Fire, the largest of the Western wildfires ignited by a lightning strike on August 5.

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The strike was caused by the decision of a black school board in Brownsville, Brooklyn to fire many of the Jewish teachers and administrators from the local schools and replace them with black separatist teachers and administrators.

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In recent days, the North has threatened a nuclear strike on the U.S. and said it was scuttling the cease-fire on the Korean Peninsula.

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