An insurance company is seeking $1.8 million from Hallmark Cards and another company over a defective snow globe blamed for a fire that destroyed a home in northern Michigan. The Jumbo Snowman snow globe was recalled in 2008, weeks after …
A federal investigation into flash fires that killed five people this year at a Gallatin metal powders plant found that multiple reports of earlier small fires did not spur the Hoeganaes Corp. to try to mitigate the hazard. It also …
Authorities say an Atlanta warehouse was destroyed in a ferocious fire that was fueled by welding materials and tanks that exploded. Fulton County firefighters fought the blaze, which broke out Tuesday at Tie Down Engineering on Selig Drive in southwest …
Delaware fire officials say a fire that damaged a business and home in New Castle over the weekend was set intentionally. Investigators say the fire that broke out on South Du Pont Highway about 10 p.m. Sunday started inside a …
Investigators say a fire that destroyed a Kansas apartment complex under construction was intentionally set. Officials investigating the Nov. 6 blaze at the 96-unit Strasser Village Apartments, in Manhattan, Kansas, said the fire appears to have been started in the …
Flames whipped by strong winds have destroyed a central Indiana church. About 30 members of the Yountsville Community Church had just begun services Sunday morning when someone noticed smoke, and they evacuated the building. All escaped without injury. Crawfordsville Fire …
Nashville, Tenn., police say a man apparently upset over his pizza threw a beer bottle with flammable liquid into the restaurant. Officers said in a news release Monday that it ignited a small fire Sunday night that was quickly extinguished …
No one was seriously injured in a three-alarm fire at an apartment complex near Mill Creek, Wash., but at least a dozen residents of the Millwood Estates Apartments were displaced and damage is estimated at $700,000. Snohomish County Fire District …
A Southern California man has been electrocuted by a power line that fell on him outside his home. The Los Angeles Times says 24-old Joel Ramirez died Saturday night. The San Gabriel Valley Union-Tribune says the man was inside his …
Fire officials in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta are investigating three blazes at nearby businesses. CBS Atlanta reports that AquaRama Pools and Spas was damaged by one blaze. Authorities said a beauty salon was also heavily damaged by another fire. …