An Ex-criminology professor was jailed for 5 years Thursday for going on a "arson spree" during the Dixie Fires in California in 2021, often igniting fires being firefighters
Canadian officials said a wildfire that forced 6,600 residents across four neighborhoods to evacuate their homes in Fort McMurray earlier this month is now under control.
One person is dead after a fatal explosion occurred at a house in southern Wisconsin, according to police. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
The Spirit of '76 Fireworks warehouse in Boonville, Missouri, caught fire on Monday, according to local officials. Pictures show a mushroom cloud outside the factory.
A Georgia man was arrested after he allegedly admitted to police that he burned a trailer down while his stepmother was inside of it because his mother would not sell the lot.
A Maryland family's SUV suddenly caught fire and caused the windows and airbags to explode while the family slept earlier this month in a shocking scene caught on video.
Researchers climbed General Sherman, the world's largest tree, for the first time ever in search of bark beetles, which have become more threatening to giant sequoia trees.
Rescuers in western India were searching through debris after an explosion and fire at a chemical factory killed at least nine people and injured 64 others.
An overnight fire in an apartment building in Vietnam resulted in 14 deaths and six injuries. The fire started in a courtyard used for selling and repairing electric bikes.
A massive fire along Interstate-70 has been caught on video near Denver, Colorado, after a vehicle struck a tanker truck, leading it to burst into flames.
The threat of Canada's latest wildfire near the country's oil sands appears to be dying down, with favorable winds expected to push the fire away from the city.
Authorities say a fire at a residential building in western Germany has left three people dead and two others with life-threatening injuries. The fire started in a kiosk.
A welding operation at a water park under construction in Sweden's Goteborg led to a massive fire in February, resulting in one fatality, according to a report.
In Sudan's civil war, fire is being used to burn villages and displace civilians with more frequency than before. April 2024 saw more fires than any other month of the war.
A fire engulfed a large shopping complex in Warsaw, Poland, on Sunday. While no injuries were reported, the fire destroyed more than 80% of the complex.
In Thailand, a chemical storage tank caught fire, killing one person and injuring four others. The company that owns the tanks said it would compensate those affected.
A judge forced the Hawaii attorney general's office to give to lawyers involved in the lawsuits over the August Maui wildfires all interviews and documents collected by the team hired to investigate.
Jordan on Monday stationed two firefighting helicopters in Cyprus, in hopes of assisting the Mediterranean island nation in combating any forest fires that may break out this summer.
A report on a deadly building fire in South Africa that killed 76 people blames city authorities for neglecting safety concerns at the building for years prior.
Two bodies were found inside a "human-dug cave" in Los Angeles, California, Sunday morning. A "white powder substance" was also found inside the excavation.
Jerry Boylan, the captain of a scuba dive boat that caught fire off Santa Cruz Island in California in 2019, killing 34 people, has been sentenced to four years in prison.
A busy section of interstate in the southwestern part of Connecticut will be closed for an “extended period of time" after a tanker carrying gasoline crashed and burst into flames on Thursday morning, officials said.
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