April was a bad month for house fires in eastern North Carolina. The Red Cross of Eastern North Carolina tells local media outlets that 184 families were affected by house fires during the month. That’s almost a 25 percent increase …
Authorities say a South Florida man who didn’t want a bank to sell his foreclosed home tried to blow it up using a bowling ball as an explosive. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports 21-year-old Tyler Butler was arrested Monday on …
Firefighters are urging people to be careful in the kitchen this Thanksgiving. The Firemen’s Association of the State of New York has issued a holiday reminder that cooking fires are the number one cause of home fires. With Thanksgiving on …
About a half-dozen homes in southwestern Detroit have been damaged or destroyed by fires that started after an explosion in a vacant house. Mayor Mike Duggan’s spokesman John Roach says investigators believe the explosion on Oakdale Street in the afternoon …
It was pride of ownership that led a New Jersey family to decorate the front of their home with bright plastic flowers, and it was those same decorations that acted as a fatal accelerant in a fast moving blaze that …
Massachusetts fire officials are urging residents not to keep Christmas trees too long into the new year.State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan says if a dried out Christmas tree ignites, it can spread a fire quickly.
Heating is the second leading cause and accounts for 14 percent of all residential building fires responded to by fire departments across the nation. From 2008 to 2010, an estimated average of 50,100 heating fires in residential buildings occurred in …
