Justin Beal, a 39-year-old municipal fire inspector from Clovis, Calif.

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Firefighters responding to a report of a small wildfire at about 2 p.m. spotted the aircraft debris, put out the fire and began a search for survivors, county fire Inspector Quvondo Johnson said.

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Her Majesty's chief inspector of fire services, Keith MacGillivray, who compiled this year's report, said more must be done to promote safety, particularly for vulnerable people.

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Investigators are trying to determine whether the explosion was gas-related, said Robert Kuehn, an inspector for the Brentwood Fire Department.

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Indeed, one of the foundational linguistic theories of the twentieth century, which came to be called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, was based in part on the work of Benjamin Whorf, an inspector for the Hartford Fire Insurance company.

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Workers' groups have backed a binding fire-safety initiative that would appoint an independent inspector to check safety precautions in factories.

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