A fire that erupted in storage yards beneath a Los Angeles freeway has renewed attention on the city’s inability to protect the thousands of homeless residents living in such perilous locations
November 16, 2023
A fire in a coal company building in a northern Chinese city has killed 26 people and injured at least 38
November 16, 2023
A section of a freeway running through downtown Los Angeles that had been heavily damaged by fire earlier this month reopened on Monday, weeks ahead of initial forecasts, city officials
April 26, 2024
Pakistani police say a blaze has killed at least 10 people in a shopping mall
November 25, 2023
Officials say a wildfire burning out of control on the outskirts of the Australian west coast city of Perth has destroyed at least two homes and injured two men
December 21, 2023
The U.S. Coast Guard says a lithium-ion battery fire on a cargo ship is out after days of burning off the coast of Alaska
December 31, 2023
A government commission in Guyana tasked with investigating a fire that killed 20 children at an Indigenous boarding school last year has found multiple errors and systematic failures
January 20, 2024
Thousands of artworks have been destroyed in a fire that swept through the main art gallery in Abkhazia in a severe blow to the cultural heritage of the separatist Georgian region
January 23, 2024
Chinese state media say at least 39 people died and nine others were injured when a fire broke out at a commercial building in southeastern Jiangxi province
January 24, 2024
A truck hauling zebras and camels for a series of weekend circus performances caught fire early Saturday on a northeastern Indiana highway, prompting a police rescue of the animals
January 27, 2024
Authorities say gas explosions at an industrial building in Kenya’s capital sent a plume of fiery smoke rising over homes and injured at least 29 people
February 02, 2024
Kenyan President William Ruto says corruption and incompetence among officials allowed the operation of an illegal liquid petroleum plant in a residential area
February 03, 2024
Six to eight people are feared dead in a house fire that broke out near Philadelphia on Wednesday, and two police officers responding to the blaze were wounded by gunfire from inside the
February 08, 2024Investigators looking into a fire outside Philadelphia that left six members of a family dead suspect they were killed by a relative who lived with them
February 09, 2024
A fire has engulfed two residential buildings in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, killing at least four people and injuring at least 13 others
February 22, 2024
The owners of a quirky 18th century British pub bulldozed after a fire last year have been ordered by a local council to rebuild it, keeping with its previous lopsided specifications
February 27, 2024
Bangladesh's health minister says a fire in a six-story commercial complex in the nation's capital, Dhaka, has killed at least 43 people and injured dozens of others
February 29, 2024
Bangladesh's prime minister says a six-story shopping mall that caught fire in the country's capital had no fire exits
March 01, 2024
A fire broke out on Thursday at a military academy that prepares future Russian tank commanders and crews in the city of Kazan, Russian state news agencies reported, citing
March 07, 2024Exxon Mobil fulfilled from existing stock all its delivery contracts from its refinery in Port Jerome-Gravenchon in northern France since it was hit by a major fire on Monday, a
April 26, 2024
A fire has broken out at an Istanbul nightclub during renovations and 15 people are dead
April 02, 2024
Authorities are seeking a suspect who allegedly started a fire outside the Vermont office of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders
April 05, 2024
At least four people were killed and another 12 injured in a fire in a building in Hong Kong
April 10, 2024
Prosecutors say the man accused of starting a fire outside U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Vermont office has had past brushes with the law involving guns and a history of traveling from place to place
April 11, 2024
One of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings is on fire and its iconic spire has collapsed
April 16, 2024
Danish firefighters were still at work extinguishing the last pockets of a fire that destroyed a 400-year-old Copenhagen landmark a day after the blaze began
April 17, 2024
Copenhagen's mayor says she has been in touch with her Paris counterpart to see what could be learned from the reconstruction of the Notre Dame cathedral in the French capital, after a fire devastated the Danish city’s 400-year-old stock exchange building
April 18, 2024
The hotel featured in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film “The Shining” says it will reopen to guests Sunday after a fire that prompted evacuations but caused only minimal damage
April 20, 2024
At least 10 people died and 11 were injured in the early hours of Friday morning in a major fire at a guesthouse in Brazil's southern city of Porto Alegre, said the Rio Grande do
May 13, 2024
Large parts of the outer walls of Denmark's landmark 400-year-old stock exchange building collapsed on Thursday afternoon, two days after a
May 03, 2024
A report into a building fire that killed 76 people in South Africa last year has concluded that city authorities should be held responsible because they were aware of serious safety issues at the apartment block at least four years before the blaze
May 06, 2024
An evacuation was ordered for communities near a fire at a chemical storage tank terminal that killed one person in Thailand's eastern Rayong province, as the blaze was likely to
May 22, 2024A major fire broke out in a vast shopping complex in the Polish capital that housed some 1,400 shops and service outlets
May 12, 2024
A large fire that broke out at Sims' metal recycling facility in Redwood City, California on Wednesday has been extinguished, the company said. "At approximately 2:55 p.m.
June 07, 2024At least 14 people were killed and three injured in a fire that broke out at a densely populated residential area in Hanoi early on Friday, police said.
June 10, 2024Rescuers are combing through piles of debris and wreckage to search for bodies after an explosion and fire at a chemical factory in western India killed at least nine people and injured 64 others
May 24, 2024
The cross at the apse of Notre-Dame de Paris, which survived the devastating 2019 fire, has been reinstalled atop the cathedral’s framework after a meticulous restoration by artistic ironworkers from Normandy
May 24, 2024
At least 24 people, including many children, died in a fire that broke out on Saturday evening in a family entertainment venue in the western Indian state
June 11, 2024
The Federal Aviation Administration says a commercial airliner’s engine caught fire at Chicago O’Hare International Airport
May 27, 2024A fire believed to have been caused by a short circuit, has destroyed part of Miniland, a section of the Legoland theme park in western Denmark with replicas of famous buildings made of Lego bricks
May 29, 2024Historical paintings rescued by fire fighters and the public during a huge blaze at Copenhagen's Old Stock Exchange can almost all be
June 21, 2024
The U.N. says a fire at a displacement camp in eastern Congo has destroyed around 50 makeshift tents, leaving dozens of families without shelter
June 06, 2024
An explosion and a fire injured 13 people at a home-improvement chain store in northeastern Romania on Friday, emergency services said.
June 25, 2024
Two ships caught on fire after being hit by projectiles off Yemen's Aden, two UK maritime agencies reported on Sunday.
June 25, 2024Officials say that an explosion at an armaments plant in Poland caused a fire that killed a 59-year-old man who worked there and injured another person
June 10, 2024Hundreds of caged animals died after a fire struck Chatuchak Weekend Market, one of the most famous markets in Thailand’s capital
June 11, 2024
A fire broke out at the Palace of Versailles on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of visitors from one of France's busiest tourist sites before it was brought under control, a
June 27, 2024
At least 40 Indians died after a fire swept through a building that housed foreign workers in Kuwait
June 12, 2024
From a father-of-two who planned to leave his job to a 29-year-old due to visit his family in August, two dozen Indians from the
June 28, 2024
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