SAN DIEGO — Smoke containing human remains billowed out of a National City crematorium Thursday when an oven door was stuck open while the furnace was in use. National City Fire Captain Brian Krepps ...

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HALMSTAD, Sweden, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- New ovens in a crematorium in Halmstad, Sweden, are to be used to heat the crematorium itself and maybe one day the town, says the cemetery administrator. "After all ...

CREMATION staff deep-cleaned the oven used for Peter Tobin over fears his ashes would mix with those of other dead people. One warning of “potential cross contamination” said: “No family will have ...

An oven door failed to shut at a National City crematorium Thursday, sending smoke out of the building and leading the fire department to respond, a fire official said. About 12:15 p.m., a report of a ...

SUPER-sized ovens will be installed at Pleasington Crem-atorium to cope with the growing number of overweight bodies in a £1million project. Town hall officers said the action was being taken after ...

ERFURT, Germany – A new memorial is opening in Germany that examines the role played by educated professionals such as the engineers and architects who created the crematoria ovens for Auschwitz to ...

A radioactive corpse that contaminated an Arizona crematorium is leading to concerns about how to handle the bodies of cancer patients who have had radiation treatment. A research letter published in ...

A deceased cancer patient was cremated with a radioactive substance in his body, spreading potentially harmful material around the facility, according to a case study published in JAMA. Two years ago, ...