Australia fires Q&A | What you want to know
Why are the fires in Australia so hard to put out? Where are they? CBC’s David Common answers viewer questions…
Church volunteer admits to arson attack on French cathedral
French authorities have detained and charged a repentant church volunteer after he told investigators that he was responsible for an…
Small plane crashes into Utah neighborhood; multiple injured
Authorities say multiple people were injured when a small airplane crashed in a suburban Salt Lake City neighborhood on Saturday…
Smoky fire prompts evacuations in rural Northern California
Strong winds fed a smoky fire that threatened about 100 rural homes and prompted evacuations in Northern California June 7,…
Workers to begin untangling charred metal web on Notre Dame
Workers suspended from ropes will be lowered into the charred remains of scaffolding that melted atop Notre Dame when the…
Brush fire north of Phoenix forces evacuation of 250 people
Officials say high winds caused a brush fire in a town near Phoenix to nearly quadruple in size and force…
Fire, explosion in Los Angeles injures 10 firefighters
An explosion in downtown Los Angeles has injured 10 firefighters, and more than 200 are trying to douse the blaze…
Firefighters continue battling fires in Florida Panhandle
Florida firefighters are hoping to hold containment lines around a 2,000-acre fire in the state’s Panhandle, where winds are expected…
South Korea construction fire kills 38
At least 38 people were killed when one of South Korea’s worst fires in years broke out at a construction…
Officials: Man angry about stimulus check set shed on fire
Fire Marshals in Louisiana say a man set his mother’s shed on fire out of anger that he didn’t get…
PG&E pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in wildfire
Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to plead guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the 2018…
North Carolina police arrest man they say set woman on fire
Police in North Carolina have arrested a man accused of dousing a woman in flammable liquid and lighting her on…
Suspect in Hawaii officers’ deaths described as unhinged
HONOLULU — A Hawaii handyman with a history of run-ins with police and neighbors faced eviction when he stabbed a…
911 calls reveal horror, chaos of Vegas fire that killed 6
Newly released audio recordings of 911 calls are revealing the horror that Las Vegas apartment complex residents faced last month…
Fire engulfs nursing home in Croatia, at least 6 dead
Croatian authorities say a fire has engulfed part of a nursing home in northern Croatia, killing at least six people…
Bus catches fire in road accident in India; at least 20 dead
Police say a double-decker bus has caught fire after ramming into a truck on a highway in northern India and…
Car plows into German tourists in northern Italy, 6 dead
Italian fire officials say a car has plowed into a group of young German tourists in northern Italy, killing six…
3 women investigated for causing deadly blaze at German zoo
Three women are under investigation in Germany for launching paper sky lanterns blamed for igniting a fire that destroyed an…
Wildfire-ravaged areas of Australia get holiday relief
Areas of Australia that have been ravaged by deadly wildfires experienced have temporary relief, but oppressive conditions are expected to…
California governor rejects PG&E bankruptcy reorganization plan
(Reuters) – California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday rejected a bankruptcy reorganization plan submitted by PG&E Corp (PCG.N), the state’s…
Indiana police shoot man after high-speed chase ends in fire
Northern Indiana police say officers shot a man following a high-speed pursuit that ended when his vehicle and a police…
Father sues Telsa after teen son killed in flaming crash
The father of an 18-year-old Florida teen killed when his speeding Tesla slammed into a wall and caught fire is…
Saudi Arabia consults allies on oil attack, awaits result of investigation: official
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia is in consultation “with friends and allies about the next steps to take” after…
Saudi Arabia says consulting on next steps after attack, waiting for inquiry results
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia is in consultation “with friends and allies about the next steps to take” after…
Detectives: Transgender woman slain, body burned in car
Florida sheriff’s deputies are investigating the slaying of a transgender woman whose body was found in her burning car. Media…
Toxic chemical at PES refinery mostly cleared, aiding probe of June blaze
(Reuters) – Most of a highly toxic chemical stored at a fire-damaged Philadelphia oil refinery has been rendered inert, clearing…
Virginia man gets 5 years in prison for dog burned alive
A Virginia man will serve five years in prison without parole for the death of a pit bull that was…
Hezbollah: Israeli drone falls, another explodes over Beirut
A Hezbollah official said Sunday that an Israeli drone went down over the Lebanese capital of Beirut and another exploded…
Funerals held for 4 children killed in day care fire
Residents of a Pennsylvania city gathered to mourn and remember four of the five children who died when fire swept…
Wildfire forces 4,000 to evacuate in Spain’s Canary Islands
Around 4,000 people were evacuated Sunday because of wildfires that, for the second time in a week, ravaged the countryside…
Furniture flame retardants may not stifle deadliest home fires
(Reuters Health) – Targeting the flammability of smoking materials like cigarettes, pipes and cigars, rather than fireproofing all furniture with…
Tesla electric car catches fire after hitting a tow truck in Moscow
Joe Young, media relations associate for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), demonstrates a front crash prevention test on…
Historically wet US Northwest faces growing wildfire threat
Nestled in the foothills of Washington’s Cascade Mountains, the bustling Seattle suburb of Issaquah seems an unlikely candidate for anxiety…
1,800 firefighters battle wildfires in central Portugal
About 1,800 firefighters were struggling to contain wildfires in central Portugal that have already injured 20 people, including eight firefighters,…
Woman, 3 children missing in deadly mobile home fire
Police say a woman and three children are unaccounted for following a deadly fire at a mobile home park site…
After explosions, Brazil power transmission companies remove GE equipment
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – After an unusual number of explosions, several Brazilian power transmission companies have started removing a piece…
At least 21 dead, 30 injured after tour bus crash in Mexico
A tour bus and a semi-trailer collided Wednesday on a mountain road in the Mexican state of Veracruz, and the…
Temple memorial to Florida shooting victims is set ablaze
A wooden temple built as a memorial to the 17 victims of a Florida high school mass shooting has been…
No timetable for end to fire at Texas chemical facility
Officials said Tuesday that they’re not sure when a two-day-old fire at a Houston-area petrochemicals storage facility will burn itself…
Iraqi novelist gunned down in southern city
A local police official says an Iraqi novelist has been killed by live fire in the southern city of Karbala.…
21 dead, 71 burned in fire at illegal tap on Mexico pipeline
A huge fire exploded at a pipeline leaking fuel in central Mexico on Friday, killing at least 21 people and…
PG&E seeks to make changes to its board
(Reuters) – PG&E Corp (PCG.N), the electricity provider in the northern California region ravaged by a deadly wildfire, said it…
Police: Chain reaction caused fiery crash on Brooklyn Bridge
An auto wreck on the Brooklyn Bridge killed one person Wednesday and sparked a fire that engulfed three vehicles and…
SMOKEBOT undergoes a trial by fire
Smokebot is a wifi-controlled robot that can asses the risks in a fire when visibility is very low.… READ MORE…
Mogadishu firefighters are volunteers working pro bono
In Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, plagued with emergencies, the fire department consists of volunteers who respond to crisis call with a…
Portuguese firefighters battle to contain blaze and heatwave goes on
Over 700 firefighters are attempting to contain a wildfire in Portugal and a heatwave across Iberia shows little sign of…
Fire victims: 2 firefighters, great-grandmother, children
Two young children and their 70-year-old great-grandmother died in the wildfire that swept into the city of Redding with devastating…
Extreme weather deaths in Europe ‘could rise 50-fold’
As swathes of southern and eastern Europe sizzle in a heatwave, scientists have issued a stark warning: extreme weather could…
Ford could reopen two U.S. truck plants next Friday: source
(Reuters) – Ford Motor Co (F.N) could resume production of its best-selling F-150 pickups as early as Friday, May 18…
South Africa: Fire ravages Capetown
Fire fighters are battling fires along the Capetown mountains that have been ravaging South Africa’s Eastern Cape region in the…
West Bank clashes turn deadly as knife attacks shake Israel
Street fires, hurled stones and rubber bullets are now an everyday occurence in the West Bank as the conflict between…
Relatives await bodies after fire kills 68 at Venezuela jail
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