Fire News

A fourth-grade field trip to a Mississippi River park popular with fossil hunters turned deadly Wednesday when gravel saturated by persistent rain gave way, killing one child and injuring two others.

The fire erupted Monday and the visitor center has been closed, tours have been canceled, and power and phone service is out.

El Medio Fire Chief Rusty Ohlhausen said the fire started about 3:30 a.m. inside a single-wide mobile home on the 1900 block of A Street in Southside Oroville.

DALLAS The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is aiding local authorities with an investigation into what caused a six-alarm fire at a Dallas condominium complex that killed a firefighter.

Last month, a house caught fire across the street from the Braddock Hills Volunteer Fire Department.

Firefighters are urging people never to pour water on hot oil following a fire in Nightingale Avenue, Harrow on Sunday.

Prince George's County fire department spokesman Mark Brady says firefighters were called to the store about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.

A lightning strike is being blamed for a house fire in Goose Creek on Tuesday. The blaze broke out on Tuesday afternoon at a home located on Cannon Avenue.

Edwin Quewezance visits the home he rents at 417 Ave. Q South on Monday after it was destroyed by a fire that investigators say was likely the work of an arsonist.

The St. Michael Fire Department log for May 9-15, 2013: May 10 Motor vehicle accident on Highway 241 in front of Kwik Trip and were cancelled en-route. Medical call in the 40 block of St.

Stanley Wilson, 51, who had been a Dallas firefighter for 28 years, died after being trapped while battling a six-alarm blaze at a condominium complex.

Wendell Fire Department Assistant Chief Crystal Houser tells The Times-News the fire appeared to have been caused by a controlled burn that spread to the concrete and wooden barn Sunday afternoon.

Thirty-five-year-old Leola Bell and 40-year-old Tina Cole pleaded not guilty on Friday to attempted first-degree murder and first-degree arson charges.

THE fire service's deputy chief has warned Southend's cluster of fire stations could be under threat as part of the cost-cutting programme.

TWO firefighters saw a utility carrying four award-winning architects and believed it was safe to go through a red light - seconds before a crash that claimed three lives, a coronial inquest has heard.

A Joppa man has been arrested in connection with an early-morning apartment fire at a building near The Festival at Bel Air shopping center, the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office reported.

The Memphis Fire Department said 35 firefighters and other emergency personnel responded to a blaze Monday morning at a one-story house in the Uptown neighborhood.

Two women playing video games at a North Texas convenience store and a worker have been burned after a female suspect set one of those customers on fire.

Damage is seen after an apartment fire Monday May 20th, 2013, at an Indianapolis condominium building on the city's East Side.

Emergency responders have been searching for a Dallas firefighter who reported by radio being trapped while battling a six-alarm blaze at a condominium complex.