Hundreds of tons of rubble has been removed this month from the site of a former clock factory in northern Illinois that was partly destroyed in a January 2012 fire. The News-Tribune in LaSalle reports that 1.6 million pounds of …
Johnson County has lost about half its snowplow fleet to a fire at a county building on the west side of Iowa City. Five trucks were damaged in Monday’s fire, and three more are likely a total loss. The cost …
A Vermont state official says repairs to a state welcome center being built in Bennington that caught fire on Friday will be covered by the contractor. Vermont Buildings and General Services Commissioner Michael Obuchowski says a contractor’s heating unit started …
Investigators say a fire that knocked a Texas television station off the air during its morning newscast does not appear to be suspicious. Authorities are trying to determine what sparked the fire around 5 a.m. Tuesday at WOAI-TV. Nobody was …
Fire destroyed a motorsports shop in Kossuth, Miss., on Wednesday. The Daily Corinthian reports Unique Motorsports, owned by Mike Meeks, was a total loss in a fire that started at about 2:30 p.m. Meeks said he had just returned from …
Baton Rouge, La., fire investigators have arrested a bookkeeper accused of setting fire to a local business the evening before she was to be questioned in an embezzlement investigation. Authorities tell The Advocate 51-year-old Revelea Jacks Lamartiniere was booked Monday …
A West Paris building that burned down this week was once home to the last manufacturer of wooden clothes pins in the U.S. The Penley Mill was West Paris, Maine’s biggest employer from 1923 until it closed in 2002. The …
Turkey’s state-run agency says firefighters in Istanbul are working to extinguish a blaze raging through a historic former mansion that is now part of a university campus. No one is believed to be trapped inside the wooden building used by …
Authorities in eastern Idaho say an attempt to thaw frozen water pipes using an agricultural weed burner in a crawl space ignited a blaze at a single-story, wooden home that housed the Bonneville County Sportsman’s Association. Idaho Falls Fire Department …
A fire on Joplin, Mo.,’s Main Street destroyed two buildings but firefighters were able to stop the blaze from spreading to other buildings. No injuries were reported after the fire Tuesday night. The Joplin Globe reports the fire destroyed a …