Fire investigators are probing the cause of an eight-alarm blaze in Redwood City, California destroying the 109-unit Middlefield Junction affordable housing project.
Parts of the Hoover Dam caught on fire, following the explosion of an electrical transformer, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. No injuries were recorded, and the fire was quickly extinguished.
A Florida deputy saved a 3-year-old boy from a house fire. A video released by the Flagler County Sheriff's Office showed the child was hiding under a blanket.
A fire has broken out at an offshore platform in the southern Gulf of Mexico on Sunday. The site was operated by Pemex, also known as Petroleos Mexicanos.
A protest in Oakland, California took a violent turn after a small group of demonstrators set fire to a courthouse, vandalized a police station and shot fireworks at officers, authorities said.
Southern California was met by an early morning Saturday fire that caused heavy damage to the nearly 250-year-old San Gabriel Mission church, a historic landmark dating to the late 1700s.
Valparaiso Fire puts down the houses of Dozens of People on the Eve of Christmas. (Photo : Reuters) Dozens of people were left without a home after a fire had spread through a neighborhood occupied by low-income families in the city of Valparaíso, Chile.
Screaming residents build ropes from sheets and lean out windows A huge fire engulfed a tower block in west London this Wednesday morning leaving more than 50 people injured and an unknown number of people dead.
Samsung SDI in China had a fire outbreak Wednesday morning due to its defective lithium ion batteries in the waste depository. All other areas in the vicinity are safe, as the further investigation moves on.
The Bogart fire in Southern California is continuing to spread after injuring a few firefighters and increasing in size since its first blaze late Tuesday night in the Beaumont area. Officials have slightly contained the fire in the Cherry Valley area (Riverside), a blaze speculated to be human-caused.
Wildfire season is in full blaze, with fires burning throughout the entire west coast and elsewhere in the country. The Spokane Fire Complex, burning near Spokane, Wash., first erupted on Aug. 21 and has since destroyed over 7,200 acres of land and several homes as firefighters continue in their attempts to contain it.
A wildfire in San Luis Obispo County, Calif. has been steadily burning for 10 days now, having blazed through more than 5,500 acres in the past 24 hours. This brings the total acreage of the inferno dubbed the "Chimney Fire" to 37,101 as of the early morning hours on Tuesday Aug. 23.
The 2016 wildfire season in California is an extremely active one, with new fires igniting almost daily. Two of California's most problematic fires as of mid-August include the Rey Fire and the Cedar Fire. The Cedar Fire, which sparked on Tuesday Aug. 16, has grown to 20,000 acres, while the Rey Fire, ignited on Thursday Aug. 18 has burned through over 23,500 acres of land.
