The tests simulate both normal circumstances as well as preparing the team for the unexpected, with tests of how data will be crunched in the event of a data centre fire, virus infection or other crises.
The scrapping of a fire control centre for south-west England will allow Devon and Somerset fire crews to provide the best service, a fire boss has said.
Others, including Marie's colleague Paul Conroy and French journalist Edith Bouvier, were also badly injured when a house in Homs serving as an informal media centre came under rocket fire.
The attackers drove up to the party, taking place in the open but within the grounds of a recreation centre, before opening fire on those present with a machine-gun, reports said.
Firefighters are to partially demolish a derelict building in Manchester city centre, following a large fire.
Last September hundreds of fish died in the Erewash Canal during a two-month fire at the centre in Stanton-by-Dale.
At least five people have been killed by mortar fire in the centre of Damascus since Monday, AFP news agency said.
Portugal, who are at the start of their long process for 2011 World Cup qualification, were blitzed at the start going behind to three quick-fire unconverted tries by centre Cave, Nagusa and McCrea.
The victim, aged n her 30s, suffered what police called "superficial" burns in the fire, behind Littlemoor Community Centre on Monday.
Electricity in power lines above a fire at a Hertfordshire recycling centre should be back by Thursday evening, National Grid has said.
While trouble flared mainly in the city centre, the group started a small fire at the Bartons Arms pub in Aston before blockading the nearby A34 dual carriageway.
Five buildings including staff accommodation and a visitors' centre had been severely affected when the fire came through on Sunday, the Australian National University, which runs the site, said in a statement.
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The Yarl's Wood fire and another at Harmsworth detention centre in west London just days later has raised the issue of insurance risks.
The fire at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery started just after 12:00 on Monday, and at 16:30 a small fire was discovered at the Sealife Centre.
The union said Ms Griffiths had received hundreds of messages of support since being escorted off the premises at the London Fire Brigade's Southwark Training Centre on Armistice Day.
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Nine children have been killed by a fire at a Koranic school near the centre of Senegal's capital, Dakar.
The police are still trying to find out who set fire to a homeless drop-in centre in west Belfast.
Pubs, restaurants and flats have been evacuated in Manchester city centre as about 50 firefighters try to contain a fire in a four-storey building.
West Yorkshire Fire Service officers are now working with shopping centre managers to find a solution to the problem.
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The SBCC said the assessment process would provide "informed and credible evidence", which would help the centre work with the Scottish government, law enforcement, fire services and business community on stamping out business crime.
The fire at the Joy Street station in the town centre cut power to 3, 000 homes.
Plans to reform the fire service in England and Wales were at the centre of a government white paper unveiled by John Prescott in the wake of the firefighters' strikes at the end of last year.
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There are five major PFI projects in Cornwall which include new fire stations, a waste management system, Penzance Leisure Centre and Bodmin Hospital.
In Wakefield, a new fire station for Ossett would be built nearer to Wakefield city centre, with an engine removed from the Wakefield station.
Ms Roll said the recycling centre next door was still operating as normal and Grundon was prepared to assist the fire service if necessary.
There are still plenty of human beings in the operational loop it takes a team of about 180 to run and service a Predator and it is clear that the responsibility for the decision to fire a missile rests as much with the pilot in a distant command centre as with a pilot in any cockpit.
Such displays may fire up angry conservatives, but they are also in danger of repelling voters in the centre.
Concerns centre on the possibility that the fuel-filled pebbles could leak, or that the graphite pebbles might catch fire.
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More alarming is Liu Tai-ying, a legislator and presidential adviser, who has said that if China attacks, then Taiwan should fire missiles into the sea near Hong Kong, to spark a panic in China's financial centre.
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