This is certainly the case for home fires, according to Michael Kozo, New York City Fire Department (FDNY) captain and ...

Neighbour Liam Crean said he heard an explosion before the fire and came outside to see the man dangling from the third-floor balcony. “I was just inside and heard a commotion and thought I ...

A woman is in hospital with serious injuries after jumping out of a second-storey window to escape a fire at a Mississauga home. Peel Regional Police say flames broke out just after 7 p.m. on Thursday ...

While evacuation orders remained in place for areas around the immediate perimeter of the fire, other nearby neighborhoods were reduced from evacuation orders to warnings, while warnings were ...

The fire was being fanned by strong, dry Santa Ana winds that were racing through the area, pushing a vast pall of smoke and dangerous embers ahead of the flames -- sparking fears that it could ...

The Hughes Fire has spread to over 8,000 acres in Los Angeles County's Castaic area on Wednesday as dry vegetation and brutal Santa Ana winds continue to boost fire conditions across Southern ...

LATEST Jan. 23, 8:45 a.m. The Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County continued to burn Thursday morning, but locals and first responders had some reason for optimism despite ...

Entire families wiped out, last words of victims revealed after the fire in northwestern Turkey killed 76 Musa Serdar Terzioglu/Anadolu via Getty Twenty children were among the 76 fatal victims of ...

Fortunately, both the IRS and the California FTB granted extensions of time to fire victims, and other relief. But could fire victims still have to pay any taxes on money they collect, even ...

Firefighters are battling a three-alarm blaze at an apartment complex in San Jose. The fire was reported at 1:55 p.m. Wednesday at a two-story apartment complex on the 2400 block of Los Gatos ...

The fire appears to have started in the restaurant of the hotel, with people struggling to escape because of its cliff-side location Two of the victims died after jumping from the building in a ...

A survivor who managed to escape the flames told local media that no alarms rang at the hotel when the fire started, complaining of a lack of any safety measures such as fire stairs or smoke ...