A wind stoked wildfire northeast of Sacramento burned dozens of homes Tuesday and has forced thousands of fire-weary residents to flee, state officials said.
Firefighters were also struggling against a sudden drop in humidity and a 10-degree spike in temperature as a heat wave forecast to linger until the weekend grips much of the state.
Fire crews [...]
A fire has destroyed the childhood home of Madonna, gutting the suburban Detroit, MI house in what authorities called ‘suspicious’ circumstances.
Arson experts from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Arson Unit and the Rochester Hills Fire Department are carrying out an investigation into the blaze. They were alerted by a passer-by who saw flames shooting out of [...]
Firefighters from more than a dozen agencies on Monday were battling to stop a 700-acre wildfire as it came within a mile of about 2,000 homes on a hot and windy day, officials said.
Two volunteer firefighters were taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion, said Mary Kay Hicks, a Texas Forest Service spokeswoman. No other [...]
A second day of hot weather and dry wind stoked new wildfires across Northern California on Wednesday, as firefighters battled blazes that have damaged at least 50 homes and threaten hundreds more.
About 1,500 residents in the heavily forested hills north of Santa Cruz were told Wednesday afternoon to leave their homes as a quick-moving wildfire [...]
A multimillion-dollar home at the center of a dispute between 50 Cent and the mother of his son was destroyed by a suspicious fire early Friday.
Six people, including 50’s ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins and their 10-year-old son, Marquise, were taken to a hospital after suffering smoke inhalation and later released. A firefighter suffered a minor eye [...]
Two cousins were without shelter last night after fire razed their home and destroyed a tractor which was parked in the Home Phone Service garage.
Gregory Duncan, a neighbour, said he saw sparks coming from an electricity pole and within minutes the house next door was on fire. Duncan said he tried using his garden hose [...]
The fire started shortly before midnight yesterday at the derelict freezing works which contains a large amount of asbestos.
Police, Fire and Civil Defence officials met this early this morning and made the call to evacuate those close to the blaze.
%26quot;Asbestos is a highly toxic substance depending on what type it is. Usually in freezing works, [...]
Refugio Ramirez has a pioneer spirit, roaming his unfenced ranch, tending to his livestock and enjoying the stomach-dropping views from the cliffs of this wide-open country.
Nearly four decades ago, as an immigrant in Chicago, Ramirez blazed a path that would transform his hometown. While working as a dishwasher at the Congress Plaza Hotel, Ramirez [...]
When she went to check on a crying child, the child’s mother encountered thick smoke in the corridor of the family’s single- storey rural house. She quickly roused her three children and partner and got the kids out of the house through a bedroom window while her partner tackled the blaze with buckets of [...]
Corey Daniel Stopforth, 19, Phillip James Morley, 21, and Paul Robert Harrod, 19, entered no plea in Palmerston North District Court yesterday afternoon. All three are charged with unlawfully entering the Oroua Road property and setting fire to the three-storey-high stack of bales early on Saturday morning. Stopforth, [...]