51.   Residents in the capital, Yerevan, have cut down virtually all the trees in the city to heat their homes.

52.   Some heated their homes with kerosene stoves and melted snow for drinking water.

53.   The home was heated by propane, which somehow leaked into the basement and caused the explosion, Fire Chief Steve Lukin said.

54.   The latest money was being earmarked for hardest-hit states, mostly in the Northeast where people rely heavily on oil to heat their homes.

55.   The latest money was being earmarked for hardest hit states, mostly in the Northeast where people rely heavily on oil to heat their homes.

56.   The shortage is most acute in the Northeast, where people rely heavily on oil to heat their homes.

57.   Victims included homeless people, the elderly and those who could not afford to heat their homes.

58.   Sarajevans, most of whom rely on free gas to heat their homes, now get gas only one day in every two.