A Friday afternoon fire sent flames and thick smoke pouring from the first floor of a seven-story apartment building near ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - Residents at a Fort Lauderdale high-rise were forced to evacuate after a fire broke out on Friday. Crews responded to the ninth floor of the Ocean Manor Beach Resort ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Honolulu firefighters worked to put out a fire at a high-rise condominium in Waikiki on Tuesday afternoon. The Honolulu Fire Department received a 911 call about a building ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON - Nine residents were displaced after a fire broke out early Monday in a 10‑story high‑rise in Northeast Washington, ...

WASHINGTON - Nine residents were displaced after a fire broke out early Monday in a 10‑story high‑rise in Northeast Washington, officials said. The fire was reported just before 2 a.m. in the 1400 ...