Athens-Clarke County Fire Department unveils a new $2 million Rosenbauer T-Rex ladder truck for high-rise rescues and fires.

A heavy amount of smoke at a high-rise on North Prospect Avenue in Milwaukee resulted in a large response from the fire department, who shut down the busy east side street for a short period on March ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The state fire marshal says fire deaths are on the rise, and a major factor in that rise is multi-casualty fires. North Carolina recorded 159 civilian fire deaths in 2025, an ...

One person died at this home in the 4900 block of Western Avenue, early in the morning of Feb. 18, 2026. The Department says the first trucks were on the scene four minutes after the fire was reported ...

HONG KONG — Hong Kong officials on Saturday unveiled resettlement plans for thousands of people who were displaced by the deadliest blaze in decades last November, proposing to buy back the ...

HONG KONG, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Hong Kong proposes to spend about HK$4 billion ($512 million) to buy out the owners of homes in a high-rise housing complex ravaged by a massive fire that killed more ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A Philadelphia police sergeant climbed 12 floors of a South Philadelphia hotel to evacuate guests during a fire, ultimately carrying a double amputee down the stairwell to ...

Corey Smedley tells why his department adopted the use of floor-below nozzles and smoke curtains for battling fires in unsprinklered high-rise residential buildings. Research that was conducted by the ...

On Tuesday, Feb. 10, around 2:44 p.m., HFD received a 911 call about a fire inside a high-rise building on Hobron Lane. HFD responded to the fire with 10 units staffed with 38 personnel. By 2:51 p.m., ...

Honolulu firefighters extinguished a high-rise building fire in an 11th-floor unit at 400 Hobron Lane in Waikiki Tuesday afternoon. The Honolulu Fire Department received a 911 call at 2:44 p.m. and ...