A massive fire broke out in Denver, Colorado, engulfing an entire apartment block. The fire, which started on Friday evening at around 6.45 p.m. local time, injured one firefighter and footage and images of it circulating on social media show a building in flames.

The local police said that their preliminary toll was about 40 dead, with roughly 115 injured, in the early morning blaze at a bar in the resort town of Crans-Montana.

Another 115 were injured, most of them seriously, in the fire at a bar in the international ski and golf resort in Switzerland.

Deadly wildfires in Hawaii, which killed over 100 people and forced thousands to evacuate, were fueled by a mix of land and atmospheric conditions that can create "fire weather." A massive blaze destroyed much of the historic town of Lahaina, on Maui, and ...

A fire extinguisher is more than a tool that puts out a fire. It can be the arbiter between life or death. Putting out a fire early can mean the difference between a small, smoky mess and widespread wreckage. Consider this: Fire with access to air and fuel ...

At least one person died and four others were injured after a fire broke out Saturday in Trump Tower in New York City, police and fire officials said. A 67-year-old male, identified as Todd Brassner, was found "unconscious and unresponsive" on the 50th ...

NORTH BERGEN, New Jersey (WABC) -- Two elderly people died in a fire in a high-rise building for seniors in North Bergen, New Jersey. The fire broke out in a 10th floor apartment in the Cullum Apartments, a 16-story building on Grand Avenue, just before 1: ...

Police in Hong Kong have arrested three men from a construction company on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with a blaze that has killed at least 94 people and left hundreds of others missing in the city's deadliest fire in years. The fire that ...

Home fires are often unpredictable, and they can be deadly: Data collected between 2016 and 2020 found that fire departments responded to 343,100 home fires annually. These fires resulted in 2,610 civilian deaths, 11,090 civilian injuries, and $7.6 billion ...

In a bushfire or campfire, it is the glowing soot that we experience as flames. Flames actually extend well above where we can see them. As the soot moves higher up, it cools and emits light in colours that we cannot see, such as infrared light.