Fire investigators on Sunday were trying to determine what caused a massive blaze that ripped through a Boston-area neighborhood, displacing an estimated 60 to 80 people but “miraculously” resulting in no serious injuries or deaths. While the 10-alarm fire Saturday …
Firefighters struggled to put down a large fire that jumped from one building to another across a densely-populated neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A large plume of smoke could be seen for miles on Saturday afternoon as heavy flames engulfed multi-family …
Charlotte Moore needed a phone charger. “I’ll just get it at home,” she shrugged. Then she remembered that her home was gone. The realization came as she made the familiar drive up to the top of Laurel Mountain in the …
Three more bodies were found in the ruins of wildfires that torched hundreds of homes and businesses in the Great Smoky Mountains area, raising the death toll to seven, a Tennessee mayor said Wednesday. Search-and-rescue missions continued, and Sevier County …
With flames dripping from tree branches and the air filled with embers, thousands of people raced through a hellish landscape as they fled wildfires that killed three people and destroyed hundreds of homes and a resort in the Great Smoky …
Seven people have been injured, four critically, in a fire that swept through three homes in Woodbury, N.J. One of the homes collapsed after the fire that started around 3:30 a.m. Monday in a home on Mehorter Boulevard and spread …
Authorities say five boys have been arrested in connection with two fires in Norwich last month. Police say four 13-year-olds and a 12-year-old face charges that include second-degree arson and first-degree criminal mischief. Police say the most recent blaze happened …
A major blaze is burning at the former Bethlehem Steel site outside Buffalo. Firefighters responded around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday to reports of a fire at the industrial site in the city of Lackawanna, just south of Buffalo. WGRZ-TV reports explosions …
The last of three New York men who set fire to a business belonging to one of the men’s father has been sentenced to more than three years in prison. Prosecutors say 51-year-old Christopher Gorman of Buffalo had been drinking …
Officials say a child who was burning items on the family’s deck in western Maryland was responsible for igniting the flames that destroyed the two-story home. Maryland Master Deputy State Fire Marshal Ed Ernst says the Saturday night fire in …
