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This photo shows the charred remains of a house on Cedar Avenue, Saturday, April 13, 2013 in Orofino, Idaho. An extension cord hooked to an electric grill on a porch shorted out and started a house fire that killed five people Saturday morning, a northern Idaho fire official says. ((AP Photo/Lewiston Tribune, Steve Hanks)

5 die in Idaho house fire caused by faulty extension cord

Last updated Monday, April 15, 2013 - 9:58am

BOISE, Idaho -- An extension cord hooked to an electric grill on a porch shorted out and started a house fire that killed five people Saturday morning, a northern Idaho fire official says.

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5 die in Boise home fire after short in extension cord to grill

Keith Ridler The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, April 13, 2013 - 10:43pm

BOISE — An extension cord hooked to an electric grill on a porch shorted out and started a house fire that killed five people Saturday morning, a northern Idaho fire official says.

Orofino Fire Chief Mike Lee said the house was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived after a neighbor reported the fire at 1:38 a.m.

He said smoke inhalation likely killed the two adults and three teens whose bodies were also badly burned in the blaze.

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3 bodies, 70 pit bulls, pot grow found at S. Idaho home

Keith Ridler The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 8, 2013 - 5:02pm

BOISE, Idaho — Authorities in eastern Idaho are investigating the shooting deaths of two men and a woman whose bodies were found in a residence near Holbrook that contained a marijuana grow operation on property that also raised pit bulls.

The Oneida County Sheriff's Office describes the killings as a triple homicide that occurred sometime between Thursday afternoon and evening by someone who had some type of relationship with the victims, whose bodies were found Friday. Police said the general public is not in immediate danger.

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(DAVID COLE/Coeur d’Alene Press) An Idaho visitor center offers an introduction to one of the rugged symbols of Boundary County, the grizzly. On Friday, a wounded grizzly at the Idaho-Montana border killed a Nevada hunter.

Wounded grizzly kills hunter in Idaho

Keith Ridler The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 6:13pm

A 39-year-old hunter killed by a wounded grizzly bear yelled out to draw the 400-pound male bear toward him in an effort to keep it from attacking his young hunting partner, the man’s family said.

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Yellowstone National Park fire grows in size

Keith Ridler The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, September 28, 2009 - 5:27pm

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. â€” Crews battling a 14.5-square-mile wildfire in Yellowstone National Park contended with unusually low humidity Monday and awaited a weather system that could bring winds and precipitation.

The Arnica Fire in southeastern Yellowstone had consumed about 9,300 acres, said Tom Kempton, a fire information officer for the National Park Service.

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