Fire News

Training and group meetings just got a lot easier for the Novi Fire Department thanks to the Assistance to Firefighters Grant program that helped the department install video conferencing equipment at all four fire stations.

MYRTLE BEACH a ' Fire officials near the South Carolina coast say a wildfire has been contained after it burned several acres not far from the area where a fire burned 30 square miles earlier this year.

Fire officials estimate some $11 million in damage from a five-alarm blaze that gutted a luxury apartment complex under construction in the Highlands neighborhood of Renton, Wash.

A A A' It must rank among the easiest fires ever to put out. Zurich authorities say police and firefighters were called to the house of an elderly woman early Thursday after she reported her television set was burning.

A North Las Vegas fire captain has been indicted on arson charges after his vehicle was found on fire a day after he reported it stolen from a gas station, the Nevada attorney general said Wednesday.

A brush fire has erupted off Interstate 5 near Castaic in Angeles National Forest.

A five-story apartment building that was under construction in the Renton Highlands went up in flames in spectacular fashion Tuesday - with the plume of smoke visible as far away as Tacoma.

A vacant house in flames must have looked familiar to northwestern Ohio firefighters.

An early morning two-alarm fire at an eastern New Orleans wrecking yard burned some 150 vehicles, and kept New Orleans firefighters busy extinguishing hot spots hours after the fire was placed under control, a New Orleans Fire Department spokesman said.

Rescuers used dogs, listening devices and thermal cameras to scour a collapsed parking deck near downtown Atlanta Tuesday to make sure no victims were in the debris while crews used cranes to lift out crushed cars.

A South Kingstown firefighter who was critically injured Monday while working on a ladder truck at the Kingston Fire District has died, a fire department spokesman announced.

A wildfire is threatening two homes near Ephrata, WA. KREM.com Grant County Emergency Management officials told KREM 2 News that the wind-driven fire has burned 75-100 acres so far in mostly sage brush, chapparal and grass.

The popping sounds that woke six folks in their home around 2:40 a.m. today probably saved their lives, according to Greer Fire Marshal Scott Keeley.

More than a dozen firefighters are recovering after they were exposed to smoke and chemicals after a fire broke out inside a laboratory at an Albany-area college.

A firefighter suffered burns to the face while responding to a vehicle fire Sunday at a laundromat near Utah State University.

Detroit -- A section of the iconic Packard plant complex was burning Sunday night as two ladder companies fought to control the blaze.

A freight train derailed in the middle of a small Italian town and two cars filled with liquefied natural gas exploded, setting off an inferno that killed at least six people and injured more than 30, officials said Tuesday.

Seven people were injured in a fire at a four-unit apartment building near downtown Los Angeles Monday.

This Sept. 2007 photo released by the PenWell Corporation publication "Fire Engineering" shows New Haven, Conn., firefighter Frank Ricci during testing of fire fighting equipment.

A college student who was wounded in a shooting that killed his mother and brother told police his father lured him to the family's house in southwest Virginia.