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Honolulu Condos Must Move to Comply With New Fire Safety Rules

Honolulu high-rise condominium owners won’t get more time to comply with stricter fire safety rules enacted after an apartment fire in 2017 killed four people. The city council failed this week to get enough votes to override Mayor Kirk Caldewell’s …

11 Injured in California Residential Hotel Fire

Authorities are searching for the cause of a fire that swept through an old residential hotel in Watsonville , Calif., injuring 11 men, five of them critically. The blaze broke out Monday evening at the 85-year-old Stag Hotel, where about …