"This is the first official commitment they are making to stop burning coal at these units, " said Nachy Kanfer, a deputy director for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign.

WSJ: Settlement binds power co. to stop burning coal

By the afternoon, 198 firefighters from 44 units had responded and the fire was still burning, a city Fire Department spokesman said.

WSJ: Brush Fires Sear Region

Mr. Venezia was one of the few survivors of the Sonderkommando, or special units, in charge of emptying the gas chambers and burning the corpses during the Holocaust at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Music sales this year are down again, burnt by file sharing and CD burning, among other reasons: So far this year music buyers have bought 423 million units, down 5.2% from a year ago, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

FORBES: Country Music Conquers