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While evacuation orders remained in place for areas around the immediate perimeter of the fire, other nearby neighborhoods were reduced from evacuation orders to warnings, while warnings were ...

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Crews were called to Church Road in south London just after 3.30am this morning (Picture: London Fire Brigade) Firefighters battled to save seven people from huge flames after a blaze broke out at ...

A tourist described scenes of chaos as panicked guests tried to escape a hotel after it caught fire on Tuesday. Guests clambered down from their rooms using sheets and blankets after the blaze ...

A brother and sister, trapped inside a ski lodge in Turkey that had caught fire, were pleading for help. “Save us,” they wrote, their uncle, Ozgur Turkmen, said in a phone interview.

Nearly 8,000 American-made space heaters were recalled in the U.S. after officials found they could cause electric shock and fire hazards. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday ...

A Jan. 18 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims firefighters in Los Angeles rely on electric fire trucks that take hours to recharge. “(Forty-five) of Los Angeles fire trucks have to ...

LOWELL, MASS. (WHDH) - An electric scooter caught fire while charging in a dorm at UMass Lowell Wednesday morning, causing students in the building to evacuate. Lowell’s fire chief said the fire ...

Guests said no fire alarms could be heard and there was no sign of firefighters for a long period The fire that killed 78 people at the Grand Kartal Hotel in the early hours of Monday is one of ...

The fire that killed 78 people at the Grand Kartal Hotel in the early hours of Monday is one of the deadliest disasters of its kind in Turkish history. Some survivors have said they did not hear ...

A fire raged through a 12-storey hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey during a school holiday, killing at least 76 people. At least 51 people were injured in the fire at the Grand ...