Fire News

Authorities are investigating vandalism at a suburban Sacramento synagogue that includes racist symbols and messages spray-painted on the sanctuary.

Crews raced to a school in Southeast Portland Tuesday afternoon as a 3-alarm fire raged in the building.

Firefighters are trying to contain a wildfire that has spread through an estimated 70 acres in Ohio's only national forest.

A Nov. 1 fire that destroyed the Putney General Store - the second blaze there in 18 months - was intentionally set, Vermont State Police said this evening.

Oklahoma City police say a fire that swept through a home where four people were found dead was intentionally set.

Two firemen died in a huge explosion at a fireworks factory near Lewes because of "gross negligence" in the storage of explosives, a court heard today.

Connecticut authorities say Interstate 95 northbound in Fairfield remains closed as crews clean up a tanker truck fire and check for roadway damage.

Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Communities Monday 9th November 2009 - 2:51pm Life for men who murdered teenage girl and grandmother in flat fire Two men were jailed for life today for murdering a teenage girl and her grandmother by setting fire to their flat as they slept.

OXYGEN MASKS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE DEPARTMENTS, AND FIREFIGHTERS WILL BE TRAINED IN HOW TO USE THEM.

OKLAHOMA CITY - Fire tore through a home in southwest Oklahoma City early Monday, killing all four people inside, authorities said.

Firefighters resumed operations Saturday on the Signal Peak North prescribed fire project.

VICTORIA is bracing for potential bushfires this week with the first heatwave of the season rapidly drying out bushland.

Jersey City Fire Department responds to fire at Ellis Island. Jersey City fire officials say operations at Ellis Island have been widely disrupted by a transformer fire .

Investigators will be looking into what caused an explosion and fire in a building storing lithium batteries waiting to be recycled at a plant near Trail, in southeastern B.C. Firefighters were still mopping up Sunday afternoon from the blaze that began Saturday evening at the plant owned by U.S.-based Toxco Inc.

Authorities say four people died in a fire in the upstairs bedroom of a boarding house.

A fire leveled a large house in Colorado Springs' western foothills Friday evening, sending firefighters on a race to prevent flames from spreading to the surrounding woods and fields.

According to her neighbours, Mary Fox died saving her "bullied" son from a house blaze on Bonfire Night Photo: SWNS Police are investigating a report that the blaze may have been caused by a firework which had been pushed through the letterbox.

CAMDEN, N.J. - Racial discrimination claims brought by two Camden deputy fire chiefs against their department have been settled.

A sacked worker shouted "they left me to rot" on Friday after he attacked his former office in a shooting spree in Orlando, Florida that left one person dead and five wounded.

Firefighters from the Live Oak Forestry Center of the Florida Division of Forestry on Friday contained a 35-acre fire in planted pines in Suwannee County.