May 26, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO — A huge fire that tore through a warehouse on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf has destroyed fishing gear used to deliver about two-thirds of the city’s fresh seafood, threatening to disrupt the upcoming Dungeness crab season, local fishermen …
May 20, 2020
LOS ANGELES — Investigators on Monday began combing the wreckage of a fire and explosion at a downtown Los Angeles vape and marijuana accessories wholesaler to determine its cause as 12 injured firefighters started the long process of recovery. Seven …
May 23, 2013
Officials are trying to determine what caused the floor of a northern New Jersey warehouse to open up, swallowing a forklift and the man who was running it. Authorities say Danny Rodriguez of Bronx, N.Y., managed to escape serious injury …
December 8, 2011
It’s time to pop open a bottle of bubbly for the holiday season – and it seems some people are willing to risk going to jail to get their hands on some. British police say that thieves have broken into …
November 17, 2011
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 …
November 4, 2011
A Tucson man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for breaking into four warehouses last year. Pima County prosecutors say 47-year-old Wesley Shane Wallace and two other men cut through the roll-up door of a business in October …
November 1, 2011
A fire at an insulation warehouse in Fort Wayne burned through the night after firefighters stopped spraying it with water in order to limit the spread of chemical-contaminated runoff. The blaze at Momper Insulation was reported late Sunday morning, sending …
August 19, 2011
A senior vice president for Clean Harbors Inc. says investigators will look into the packing of a drum of lithium that ignited and burned a warehouse in El Dorado. The Tuesday afternoon fire destroyed the warehouse and about 120 drums …
May 25, 2011
Three college honor students have each been sentenced to 90 days in prison for burning down a vacant warehouse in East Lyme. Christian Bardoli, Matias Francone, and Alexander Tsuji pleaded guilty in New London Superior Court Monday to misdemeanor criminal …
April 28, 2011
Authorities are looking into the cause of a business fire in Sioux Falls. The blaze at a warehouse near Elston Manufacturing began about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. Authorities say no one was hurt. A damage estimate was not immediately available. Fire …