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Fire guts apartment building in Phoenix
A refugee from Nepal barely escaped with their lives from an early morning apartment building fire in Phoenix. An article and video report at Fox 10 News has the details: PHOENIX – A fire destroyed an...
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Public Housing residents in Chattanooga claim refugees “abandoned”, ask for...
Residents of the Boynton Terrace public housing site in Chattanooga report ongoing problems that refugees are having adapting to life in their new country. This is the same site where a woman from...
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Columbus apartment complex where resettlement agencies placed refugees...
An apartment complex in Columbus where refugee resettlement agencies placed refugees because of low rental rates is riddled with 63 code violations. A Nepali-Bhutanese refugee who lives in a unit with...
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Another apartment fire – family of 11 in Utica, NY displaced
A refugee family resettled in 2006 apparently by the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees have been displaced after their apartment caught fire. One 4-year-old child suffered burns to her hands...
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Springfield, MA Mayor asks State Dept. to stop resettling refugees
The Mayor of Springfield is asking the State Department to stop resettling refugees to his city citing refugees placed in substandard housing and the strain on local schools. He provided pages of...
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Apartment fire in Wichita diplaces 70 Karen refugees
Refugees have again been displaced by fire at an apartment building. This time it involves 70 Karen refugees from Myanmar resettled to Wichita, Kansas. A Karen man saw fire coming from the roof,...
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Apartment house fire in New Bern, N.C.
There been another apartment house fire, this time in New Bern, North Carolina. Children playing with a lighter started the fire. The fire displaced about 30 refugees from Myanmar — placed in the...
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Another fatal fire – this time in Phoenix
A late afternoon fire killed a 7-month-old Somali baby boy at the McDowell East Apartments in Phoenix two weeks ago. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Firefighters believe that a...
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Fire destroys all belonging of Albany refugee family
A Karen refugee family (from Myanmar/Burma via Thailand) in Albany, NY said they had complained to their landlord of smoke and a burning electrical smell. The landlord hired a handyman who replaced...
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Fire that damaged refugee apartment building in Chicago being investigated as...
Building’s owner has long history of legal issues with city: cited 39 times in past 10 years. An early morning fire in the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago Monday caused major damage to an apartment...
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