Fire News

Crews continue to build containment lines around a wildfire burning for a fourth day in the hills and mountains around Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles.

Fire was a huge hazard to south Louisiana communities in the days before modern firefighting equipment and good water supplies, when wooden homes and buildings were illuminated by oil lamps and candles and cooking was done over open flames.

Employees were just arriving for work at the Pets Unleashed store in Wayland Town Center a little after 6 a.m. today, Friday, when they noticed a smoky odor and a visible haze of smoke inside the store.

The building was completely wrecked and was cordoned off with blue and white police tape across the front gate this morning.

Classes are expected to be held as usual Monday at Tully C. Knoles School after a fire that damaged a classroom Friday evening, school officials said.

House fire. Two homes on London St. N. in Hamilton are gutted after an overnight fire that injured four people.

Good news for any homeowners or businesses that are served by the Bristol-Kendall Fire Protection District .

The Niles Fire Department is investigating the cause of a Saturday fire which demolished a garage in the 7900 block of Park Avenue, near Wisner.

Smoke pours from Knox County school bus No. 946 after an engine fire forced the evacuation of students during morning delivery.

A home on Salem Street suffered significant damage in a two-alarm fire shortly after noon on Thursday , although there were no injuries and two pets were also rescued from the structure.

Dozens and dozens of residents have been left homeless - including 19-year-old Megan Varty-Abrosimoff and her cat Owen - after a blaze gutted a low income apartment complex on Third Avenue in Mission early Friday morning.

Two boys were sent to hospital to check for smoke inhalation after escaping their burning home with their mother early Friday morning.

As firefighters took on a stubborn 3-day-old wildfire Friday in rough terrain north of Los Angeles, a second and more serious blaze broke out 30 miles away near Interstate 5, quickly surging to more than 500 acres, briefly threatening an elementary school and leading to the precautionary evacuation of nearly 20 homes.

Milton and Alpharetta firefighters remain at King's Ridge Christian School this afternoon, trying to extinguish what appears to be an accidental fire in one of two new buildings under construction.

Prosecutors in Central Texas say they will retry a man whose quarter-century-old murder conviction was overturned due to questions about the fire science used at his trial.

Emergency medical technician Robbie Berge is used to saving people, but on Saturday night, the roles were reversed when he needed to be rescued after his race kart caught on fire.

Firefighters had to battle terrain as much as flames as they worked to surround a wildfire entering its third day in harsh hills and mountains north of Los Angeles.

Marcel Melanson, 37, was arrested at his Torrance home Wednesday morning on suspicion of arson and grand theft.

Fire and rescue services in England could save up to A 200 million a year if they were operated more efficiently, according to a report.

The search for a man accused of setting his neighbor's house on fire with a 3-year-old child inside came to an end Thursday.