A nearly 150-year-old building that was in the midst of a renovation collapsed in a northwestern Indiana city, scattering bricks and debris onto a street but causing no injuries, officials said. No one was inside the three-story building when a …
Firefighters in Boston worked for more than three hours to rescue an injured construction worker after part of a historic power plant collapsed Wednesday while being redeveloped. Fire Commissioner Jack Dempsey told reporters the worker sustained life-threatening injuries when a …
Six people are facing charges ranging from arson and manslaughter to filing a false instrument and criminal impersonation in connection to a fire at an assisted living facility in a New York City suburb earlier this year that killed a …
A multistory health club shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic collapsed into a heap of rubble on a Brooklyn street Wednesday, three weeks after building inspectors ordered a halt to some construction work at the location because of structural problems. The …
A construction worker has died and five others were injured in a partial collapse of a building under construction in the Bronx. It happened shortly before noon Tuesday at the four-story construction site at 92 East 208th Street, near Steuben …
The fire department says one person is dead and another was unaccounted for after a weather-related building collapse at an Amazon distribution warehouse on Baltimore’s southeast side, the Baltimore Sun reports. Chief Roman Clark tells the Sun that a 50-foot …
A two-story home being demolished in Philadelphia, Penn., partially collapsed Monday, killing one of two contractors who had been trapped, officials said. Two men were working on the building shortly before 11 a.m. when the rear of the property collapsed, …
Fire officials say a blaze tore through an apartment complex under construction in Massachusetts. Waltham Fire Chief Paul Ciccone says the complex’s five buildings collapsed in the early Sunday fire. Ciccone says none of the neighboring buildings caught fire. Crews …
Authorities say two people killed and several people were hurt after a large apartment building caught fire in Holyoke. Officials say the blaze broke out on Sunday morning with flames visible on the third, fourth and fifth floors. Fire Capt. …
An agency under fire since a 2013 building collapse killed six people jeopardizes public safety by allowing uncertified workers to conduct building inspections, Philadelphia city auditors said. The two building inspectors who weren’t properly certified performed 1,900 inspections, the Philadelphia …
