A fast-moving fire has destroyed nine businesses at a shopping center in the in southwestern Indiana town of Newburgh. Assistant Newburgh Fire Chief Chad Bennett tells the Evansville Courier & Press Saturday’s early morning fire left the Sharon Place shopping …
At least 112 people were killed in a fire that raced through a multi-story garment factory just outside of Bangladesh’s capital, an official said Sunday. The blaze broke out at the seven-story factory operated by Tazreen Fashions late Saturday. By …
Rescue crews in Dubai safely evacuated a 34-story residential tower Sunday after a fire gutted portions of the building, police said. The blaze charred the outside of the structure and send gray smoke drifting over a major development known as …
Officials say several cabins have been destroyed and a firefighter hurt in a blaze at a resort in southwestern Michigan. North Berrien Fire Rescue Interim Chief Dave Woodward tells The Herald-Palladium of St. Joseph that the firefighter suffered smoke inhalation …
Tensas Parish Sheriff Ricky Jones says two men were seriously burned when vapors at a Louisiana drilling rig apparently were ignited by the motor of a pumper truck, and a vat of drilling mud on the rig caught fire. Both …
BP Plc said a fire that broke out on Tuesday afternoon in a residual hydrotreater at the company’s 400,780 barrel-per-day Texas City, Texas, refinery was extinguished in about 1-1/2 hours and resulted in no injuries. BP spokesman Scott Dean said …
Sparks from a cutting torch ignited leaking vapors from a derailed train car and caused a fire that burned three workers and prompted the evacuation of a town near Louisville on Wednesday, a fire official said. The blaze broke out …
A landmark hotel in Boise City, Okla., has burned. The Crystal Hotel was a fixture on Main Street since 1926 until it went up in flames on Sunday. The hotel had been closed for several years until a restaurant opened …
A fire destroyed the business office of a Branson, Mo., resort but no other structures were damaged. No injuries were reported after the fire Sunday night at the White Wing Resort, which is just south of Silver Dollar City. Firefighters …
The man who provides the voice for Big Tex, the giant cowboy at the State Fair of Texas, was greeting people with his usual “Howdy, folks!” in a slow drawl Friday when someone rushed into his trailer to tell him …