Authorities in Las Vegas, Nev., say eight people escaped serious injury when a fuel-sparked fire gutted the garage of their two-story house. Clark County spokeswoman Stacey Welling says the father was working on the car when fumes from spilled gasoline …
Michael Pietro doesn’t mind so much that he got billed for the water firefighters used to battle the blaze that destroyed his upstate New York home. What really irks him is the amount: $1,400. “First of all, I’m not shocked …
The 53-page document reads more like a screenplay than a lawsuit. If Jerald Batoff’s claim is true, that’s how it may end up. More than seven months after his historic Main Line home, a 24,000-square-foot estate designed by Horace Trumbauer, …
Crews are working to clear the main streets in Rochester, Minn., after a powerful storm swept through, knocked down some trees, scattered debris and ignited a house fire. Officials say the house was struck by lightning early Wednesday, which started …
Authorities say a carelessly tossed cigarette is to blame for a fire that damaged a Missoula, Mont., group home. Fire Marshal Gordy Hughes tells the Missoulian that the Sunday evening fire caused $100,000 in damage. Hughes said the fire started …
Two women, including the pastor of an East Baton Rouge, La., church, have been arrested in connection with a house fire. State Fire Marshal Butch Browning says that 49-year-old Bridgett Barnes Steib was booked into the parish prison on one …
Authorities are investigating whether a lightning strike caused a house fire in east Tulsa, Okla., early Monday morning. Tulsa television station KOTV reports that the fire happened at about 1:45 a.m. It wasn’t clear whether anyone was inside the house …
Fire officials think homeless people are to blame for a weekend blaze that badly damaged a home east of downtown Las Vegas. No one was inside and no one was hurt when Clark County firefighters were called to the home …
Authorities say no one was injured in a house fire that cut short an annual street party near the Ohio University campus in southeast Ohio. It wasn’t clear what started the fire around 7 p.m. Saturday, abruptly ending an event …
Bond has been set at $20,000 for a Watertown, S.D., man accused of intentionally setting a house on fire. KWAT radio reports that 18-year-old Bolton Hoffman faces a first-degree arson charge in the Saturday fire that extensively damaged the home. …