Investigators are blaming a faulty valve for a propane-fueled blaze at a closed Nebraska manufacturing plant that forced thousands of evacuations. Complete Story...
San Francisco-owned Hetch Hetchy Water and Power has agreed to pay $7 million to the federal government to settle suits over fires on federal lands the utility uses.
Two men have been charged with improperly cutting brush with power tools that authorities suspect caused a massive wildfire in Santa Barbara County.
Hundreds of Chicago firefighters worked to put out a high-rise fire that left one person dead and 12 people injured.
Federal officials issued urgent new safety recommendations Wednesday for a Texas oil refinery where 21 tons of deadly acid were released this summer and said they are investigating the use of the chemical at refineries nationwide.
The pharmaceutical industry may have to cough up more than the $80 billion it agreed to contribute to President Barack Obama's health overhaul effort, reflecting pressure from Democrats and their supporters for more money to cover older and low-income people.
Authorities now say two miniature horses have died in a fire that consumed a southwestern Ohio raceway barn over the weekend, bringing to 45 the number of horses killed along with two men.
A fire ripped through a horse barn at a county fairgrounds Saturday in southwest Ohio, killing two men and 43 horses, authorities said.
The death toll from last weekend's nightclub fire has risen to 136, officials said Thursday.
Police on Saturday questioned three workers suspected of accidentally starting a fire that killed 20 people in a third-floor karaoke bar in one of Indonesia's largest cities, an official said.
Federal investigators have found no misconduct by U.S. Forest Service personnel in the deaths of five firefighters in a massive 2006 California wildfire.
Nearly 1 in 6 undercover officers in the nation's largest police department has been mistaken for a criminal by fellow officers — and has come face-to-face with a loaded gun.
Police say a fire has broken out among Christmas trees for sale outside a Walmart on New York's Long Island during a busy holiday shopping weekend.
The mayor of Revere, Massachusetts, has verbally reprimanded the fire chief for allowing a firefighter to ride a department ladder truck nine miles to his wedding.
Authorities in Ohio say a turkey fryer caused a house to catch fire as the homeowner was preparing a Thanksgiving meal.
A fierce fire cut through apartment blocks and a construction site in southeast London early Thursday, spreading across a road and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people.
Authorities say a fire at an apartment complex under construction in Dallas left seven firefighters injured.
Authorities say former New York Knicks point guard Dean Meminger was rescued from a fire that destroyed a row of New York City houses and left dozens homeless.
A federal judge is sentencing a man who firebombed a mosque in central Tennessee to 14 years in prison.
Fire investigators in Philadelphia say a candle caused a weekend apartment fire that injured nearly 21 people, including four firefighters.
Firefighters have found one body and rescued several people from a fire at a southwestern Indiana motel.
Investigators say a fire that destroyed businesses on the famous Atlantic City boardwalk apparently started in a pizza shop.
A preliminary autopsy report for a prostitute featured on the HBO reality series "Cathouse" shows that she was shot, stabbed and slashed multiple times.
The owners of a Lexington ethanol plant and their insurer are suing a subsidiary of a Houston-based natural gas provider they say is responsible for an explosion and fire that shut down the plant for weeks.
A 3-year-old Arizona boy helped his 1-year-old sister escape Friday from a house fire that killed their mother and injured two other adults, authorities said.
"A drunk man in the Perm Territory in Russia's Urals was saved by his cat when his apartment caught fire."
"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lambasted local officials on Tuesday [December 8, 2009] for failing to enforce fire safety rules at a nightclub where 118 revelers died in a blaze last weekend." The fire began the night of December 4, 2009.
A car caught on fire at a gas station in Versailles, Kentucky on December 6, 2009.
The Carter Family Fold near Hiltons, VA serves as the official repository of the memorabilia and music of The Carter Family, surely among the most influential traditional string musicians in the history of American folk and country music.
Stunned horse owners, trainers and stable hands visit the blackened site where a barn fire killed two workers and 43 horses at a harness-racing track in southwest Ohio.
Natural disasters aren't typically a cause for celebration. But after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Chinese immigrants were feeling some good vibrations.
- Two people and 65 horses were killed Saturday when a blaze engulfed a barn at an Ohio harness racing track, a state fire official said. The fire destroyed a large enclosure at the Lebanon Raceway near Cincinnati in southwestern Ohio.
An explosion and fire apparently caused by pyrotechnics tore through a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm early Saturday, killing 102 people, according to news reports.
A fire, apparently caused by an indoor pyrotechnical display, roared through a crowded nightclub in a central Russian city on Friday night, killing at least 100 people and wounding scores of others, the state news agency, RIA Novosti, reported.
A jealous wife who allegedly set her husband's penis on fire will answer a murder charge in January. Rajini Narayan, 44, appeared briefly in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Friday charged with murder, arson and endangering life.
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Firefighters said a 7-year-old boy playing with a lighter may have set his friend's house on fire.
- Fire officials said a fire the struck two Brockton triple-deckers and left 33 residents homeless was started by children jumping on a bed.
Around 150 people were evacuated from their homes today after a huge fire broke out at a neighbouring building site.
Building 7 has preoccupied conspiracy theorists ever since. Many believe it was brought down by controlled explosions. And if it was, so were the Twin Towers.
McKinney mother is calling her 6-year-old son a hero, after he put out a small fire that was caused by a space heater. Now, the mother wants to warn others about the potential dangers of the heaters"
Check out this video of Rupert Murdoch denying he said Obama made a racist statement in which he said Glenn Back was correct when he made the same remark.
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Police have positively identified the last two victims found dead in a southwest Oklahoma City house fire last week.
Police have charged a woman with attempted murder after she allegedly set a man alight in Victoria's north-east.
Fire Authorities have issued total fire bans for most parts of South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria.
"A fire at a defence ministry navy arsenal on the outskirts of the city of Ulyanovsk caused blasts" on November 13, 2009.
A HUNGRY pooch looking for food set fire to his owner's kitchen – causing £6,000 damage.
Southern California's hot, dry climate is a perfect support system for fires, so it is understandable that the state spares no expense when it comes to fighting them.
FIVE cars in the front yard of a suburban Sydney home have been firebombed in a bizarre attack and a mother and three children have been rescued from a burning home.
"Israeli settlers residing in illegal outposts in the heart of Hebron obstructed the work of Palestinian fire fighters on Wednesday night, as crews attempted to access a burning building owned by a Palestinian family."
Flaming piles of junk in a Lynn house forced a selfless cop then firefighters to risk their lives a half dozen times to rescue a man from the burning mess.