Fire
First responders routinely encounter ammo and other household items that snap, crackle, and pop: A West Sacramento firefighter explains how they handle it.
A California man has been charged with attempted murder, arson, endangering a child, and other crimes.
Heavy rains and flash flooding plagued the North Texas city this week.
Logan Taylor died in the hospital where he'd been born 25 years earlier.
It all played out in the black of night, on treacherous terrain high above the forest floor.
An expert with the chain saw, Hotshot Collin Hagan was 27.
The 22-year-old Bella needed all the help she could get.
Wind is one of the deadliest weapons Mother Nature can hurl at firefighters battling a wildland conflagration.
The black plume of smoke pealing from the Hoover Dam looked dramatic, but federal officials said the minor fire wasn’t that big of a deal.
When emergency dispatchers told Minnesota’s Sleepy Eye Fire Department that a man was drowning in co...
One-Eyed Willy’s treasure wasn’t found, but Oregon archeologists on June 17 recovered timber they su...
When firefighters arrived at the Longwood house on June 20, they found a Florida man pinned by a lar...
Fallen Philadelphia firefighter and US Marine Corps veteran Lt. Sean Williamson is being remembered as a hero who was always faithful to his nation, his beloved city, and his company, Ladder 18.
It’s not every day that San Francisco’s firefighters are called to rescue pole dancers, but it’s als...
When Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District Capt. Daniel Hoy arrived at the California scrapyard on June 9, the battery compartment inside the battered Tesla Model S wouldn’t stop cooking off.
A wildfire fueled by dry, windy conditions forced hundreds of people to evacuate homes in Arizona in...
The volunteer firefighters thought the woman might be drunk, but she was screaming she’d left her do...
As storms swept across Minnesota’s Kandiyohi County on May 12, Blomkest Fire Department Chief Matthe...
A New York village’s leaders conspired to protect a senior firefighter who stalked and sexually hara...
Verdine Day, the Detroit Fire Department’s “Woman of the Year” in 2019, will spend the next year beh...
Oregon first responders still aren’t exactly sure how two men fell nearly three stories off Portland...
When New York State Police troopers and Evans Mills Fire Department personnel arrived at the crash n...
A hero firefighter drowned trying to save the life of a child and the mother who was trying to kill her by driving her car into a West Virginia waterway. Gassaway Volunteer Fire Department Station No.
When the emergency responders found him, the 59-year-old Florida man was chin-deep in cold water, tw...
Reeling from the sudden death of a fellow firefighter, on Thursday Louisville’s Engine Company 22 an...
During the Friday, April 29, funeral service at the Church of St. Francis de Sales in Queens, New Yo...
It’s not every day that the Brinnon Fire Department and Quilcene Fire Rescue get an emergency call f...
It’s still sort of a mystery how six New Jersey teenagers fresh from the Rockin’ Jump Trampoline Par...
Thanks to a crew of eagle-eyed California firefighters, a man and his 11-year-old son were rescued a...
The ability to kick down a door is one all good Americans should have. An act typically performed by...
The first call Ward Volunteer Fire Department firefighter Dexter Reeves saw on March 3 was to dispat...
It’s Tinseltown, so of course, Los Angeles firefighters ran a daring Monday, March 28, rescue to sav...
Over the past week, a wildfire consumed a missing Oklahoma firefighter; two personnel collapsed in t...
Authorities blamed a heart attack and a two-story tumble for the deaths of firefighters in North Car...
When it comes to protecting first responders at accident scenes nationwide, brighter isn’t better. A...
More than three decades of life lived separated the two firefighters, but both died from medical mal...
Authorities in California and North Carolina blame stress and overexertion for the heart attacks that killed two senior firefighters on Feb. 9.
A burning barn exploded in Oregon, killing a volunteer firefighter who’d already insisted his funera...
A retired Rhode Island firefighter with a grudge against his old department and local cops faces fed...
A fire captain was gunned down in California. An apparent heart attack killed an assistant chief while he battled a suspected arson fire in New York.
Washington DC’s firefighters will cover the shifts of Baltimore personnel mourning the deaths of thr...
POOLER, Ga. — For at least 10 minutes on Jan.
