Fighting fire usually involves water or foam, but they can be messy and environmentally destructive. Engineers at Ohio State ...

The fire was being fanned by strong, dry Santa Ana winds that were racing through the area, pushing a vast pall of smoke and dangerous embers ahead of the flames -- sparking fears that it could ...

The Hughes Fire has burned more than 9,000 acres Wednesday around the Castaic Lake in Los Angeles County on Wednesday continuing a devastating wave of Southern California wildfires fueled by dry ...

THEY ALL CAN GO HOME TODAY. HEARTBREAK ONCE AGAIN AT THE THOMAS CAMPBELL APARTMENTS, A FIRE STARTING IN A ROOM ON THE FOURTH FLOOR JUST BEFORE EIGHT THIS MORNING. CREWS ON SCENE. WITHIN MINUTES.

Entire families wiped out, last words of victims revealed after the fire in northwestern Turkey killed 76 Musa Serdar Terzioglu/Anadolu via Getty Twenty children were among the 76 fatal victims of ...

Firefighters continue to make progress in containing the massive Hughes Fire that broke out Wednesday near Castaic Lake, growing to more than 10,000 acres and forcing mass evacuations. Around ...

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Turkiye has arrested nine people in connection with Tuesday’s fire at a ski resort hotel that killed 76 people. The arrests, announced by Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya on Wednesday ...

The fire that killed 78 people at the Grand Kartal Hotel in the early hours of Monday is one of the deadliest disasters of its kind in Turkish history. Some survivors have said they did not hear ...

A fire raged through a 12-storey hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey during a school holiday, killing at least 76 people. At least 51 people were injured in the fire at the Grand ...

Air support was also called in. The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department said at 1 p.m. fire crews were making quick work on the Friars Fire, and was asking the public to avoid Friars Road west of SR-163.