November 17, 2023
A house fire in northeast Georgia that killed three people last week was found to be accidental in nature, linked to a clothes dryer that was running overnight. And a blaze that burned a 180-year-old, historic home in Stone Mountain …
November 17, 2023
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Recent rain has helped improve drought conditions enough for Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves to partially lift a statewide burn ban. Reeves, the Mississippi Forestry Commission and the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said the burn ban will …
November 1, 2023
North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey appears to have escalated a feud with lawmakers, firing three officials at the state fire marshal’s office after legislation stripped Causey of the marshal’s job. Causey, insurance commissioner since 2017, recently sent a top …
October 25, 2023
ATLANTA (AP) — The city of Atlanta has temporarily closed three of its more than 30 fire stations because of truck breakdowns and a shortage of firefighters. Atlanta Fire Rescue Chief Roderick Smith told a City Council committee of the …
September 26, 2023
North Carolina’s Republican supermajority in the legislature has thrown a curveball to the state’s insurance commissioner and fire marshal, a position that until recently has mostly stayed above partisan politics. A late change to the state’s $30 billion budget, approved …
August 22, 2023
CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — A third child has died following a weekend house fire in North Carolina, officials said. Fire-fighting crews were dispatched to a one-story public housing duplex in Concord, northeast of Charlotte, shortly after 1:00 a.m. Sunday. Firefighters …
August 8, 2023
A fast-moving house fire in southern New Jersey that killed four family members, including a four-month-old baby, has been ruled an accident, authorities said Wednesday. Two women, an infant and a teenage girl died in Tuesday`s fire in Lacey Township, …
August 3, 2023
The estate of a Maryland man who, along with one of his children, was killed in a fire in his home is not entitled to all of the proceeds from the fire insurance policy because the homeowner still had a …
July 25, 2023
Georgia authorities said a 34-year-old woman has been charged with arson and child cruelty after she forced her stepchild to light fire to her home in order to collect insurance payments. Courtney Sellers, of Screven, in southeast Georgia, was arrested …
July 14, 2023
An early morning fire on Thursday killed nearly all the animals at a wildlife center in Florida, officials said. News outlets reported the fire broke out around 3 a.m. Thursday at the Alligator and Wildlife Discovery Center in Madeira Beach, …