Atlantic City officials say a late-night fire damaged about 100 feet of the resort’s boardwalk. Fire Chief Dennis Brooks tells The Press of Atlantic City the blaze appears to have started in a large storage unit used by boardwalk businesses. …
Scores of new homes are springing up just one year after the Waldo Canyon Fire ravaged a Colorado Springs neighborhood. Flames crossed into the Mountain Shadows subdivision on June 26, 2012. The fire killed two people and destroyed 347 homes. …
A state-sponsored panel of fire experts says it’s identified two arson-related cases in which the defendants were convicted using faulty fire science. The panel convened by the Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office released its findings Wednesday. State Fire Marshal Chris …
For jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney, a long-simmering dispute over worker illnesses was settled by a massive 11-year study that found no elevated risk of brain cancer at its plants. But for dead workers’ relatives who first raised concerns …
Companies operating major crude oil pipelines in Canada will be required to have C$1 billion ($954.97 million) available to fund cleanups from any spills, the Canadian government said on Wednesday. Joe Oliver, Canada’s minister of natural resources, also announced new …
Grain fires are smoldering in silos at a northwestern Indiana grain elevator two days after an explosion killed a worker. Safety manager Shawn Lambert of facility owner Co-Alliance LLP said Wednesday that firefighters working from 100 feet up were preparing …
A Patriot Coal subsidiary has been cited by state regulators for a roof fall that killed a miner in Boone County. A report by the West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training says an unsafe procedure was used …
Florida’s largest property insurer has approved another round of rate hikes that could affect more than a million policyholders. The board for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. voted Wednesday to raise rates by a statewide average of 7 percent next year. …
Drenching rain from a summer storm packing thunder and lightning flooded parts of two Seattle, Wash.-area malls Tuesday evening. KOMO-TV says fire officials reported flooding at both the Westfield Southcenter Mall south of Seattle and the Bellevue Square Mall east …
An Asheville, N.C. police lieutenant says Police Chief William Anderson tried to “coerce” him into making false statements about a wreck involving the chief’s son. Lt. William Wilke met with reporters Tuesday to make a statement about the March 9 …