1.   Perhaps hardest hit of all were several fireworks stores.

2.   The blaze swept through four blocks of shops and rundown apartment buildings in Lima after breaking out in a fireworks store Saturday night.

3.   The fireworks store also sold Afro-Brazilian religious artifacts.

4.   An explosion ripped through three fireworks stores in a marketplace in the southwest town of Vitoria Friday killing dozens of people, officials said.

5.   Eight people were reportedly killed Wednesday when a fire swept through an Ohio fireworks store, possibly after children played with fireworks, officials said.

6.   Firefighters were still searching for victims in the fire-gutted ruins of the fireworks stores in the downtown Vila Rubim market.