A Chevrolet Volt that caught fire three weeks after its lithium-ion battery was damaged in a government crash test has regulators taking a harder look at the safety of electric car batteries, federal officials said Friday. Based on testing so …
A popcorn machine fire forced about 30 people to evacuate a Sioux Falls mall Monday night. No one was hurt. The blaze happened at the West Mall 7 Theatres inside the Western Mall shortly after 6:30 p.m. Firefighters said it …
About 80 firefighters were battling a blaze that had engulfed a store in a suburban Sacramento strip mall. Sacramento Metro Fire Assistant Chief Scott Cockrum says there were no immediate reports of injuries. Firefighters were called to the blaze at …
A worker at a Connecticut animal sanctuary says a fire that killed 30 cats Friday night was caused by a wall-mounted propane heater that got too hot and combusted. The fire at the Last Post sanctuary in the Falls Village …
Utah officials are making a new push to extinguish an underground fire that has been burning in an old coal mine since 1941. Louis Amodt of the Utah Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project is overseeing the attempt to put out the …
A trial has been delayed for a former Lincoln Public Schools worker accused of starting a fire that destroyed the district’s headquarters. The Lincoln Journal Star reports a Lancaster County district judge has granted a delay in Sharon Brewster’s case. …
All 1,200 passengers who were on board a ferry that caught fire on the Red Sea en route to Egypt’s port of Nuweiba were rescued and the blaze was quickly extinguished, Egyptian and Jordanian officials said. The passengers from the …
Three employees of a Springfield power plant have been released from the hospital after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning during a fire at the plant. Fire officials say the blaze in coal bunkers at the John Twitty Energy Center on Monday …
When the downtown Milton fire of January 2009 was over, the historic Imogene Theatre stood blackened, broken and soggy. “The fire was our worst nightmare,” said Wes Meiss, president of the Santa Rosa Historical Society, which owns the theater. “At …
Henderson firefighters are again dousing an auto yard fire in an industrial area near the U.S. 95 freeway. Fire officials say the blaze flared up Wednesday morning, hours after firefighters were summoned a little after 7 p.m. Tuesday. A passer-by …