Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades has raised questions about corruption and negligence in the renovations of the apartment complex where at least 128 people died. An intense fire broke out at Wang ...

As workers erected bamboo scaffolding around Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court last year, a group of residents grew alarmed about plans to put styrofoam boards over windows to protect the glass. On a ...

Neanderthals 400,000 years ago were striking flints to make fires, researchers have found. Neanderthals 400,000 years ago were striking flints to make fires, researchers have found. An artist’s ...

The smell of wet grass from the recent atmospheric river rains, mud and gasoline wafts through the warm Southern California air as Alec Derpetrossian works the chainsaw with a foreman, Randy Magaña, ...

A neighbor and a police officer are being celebrated as heroes for helping their neighbors evacuate as flames rapidly spread at a home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Thursday. Fire crews were ...

HONG KONG, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's leader said on Tuesday a judge-led committee will investigate the cause of the city's deadliest fire in decades and review oversight of building renovations ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Lawyers representing victims of the Palisades fire are seeking to depose Los Angeles firefighters to shed light on ...

The origin story of L.A.’s Palisades Fire, according to a criminal complaint announced yesterday, reads like a scene from an art-house film. Shortly before midnight on New Year’s Eve, a son of ...

Another fire has broken out at the Novelis aluminum plant in Oswego, New York that supplies sheet metal for Ford’s trucks, including its all-electric F-150 Lightning. The four-alarm fire started ...

The Garnet fire burned into the McKinley grove of giant sequoia trees by Monday morning. Fire officials say several trees are burning and specially trained firefighters are on the way. A blaze raging ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani chose Lillian Bonsignore, the former chief of New York’s E.M.S., as the first openly gay person to lead the Fire Department. By Jeffery C. Mays Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani ...