A man who allegedly started a massive blaze that has burned thousands of acres in Southern California was arrested Tuesday, authorities said. The San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department and investigators with Cal Fire identified Justin Wayne Halstenberg, 34, as the person who allegedly started the Line Fire. SMOKEY BEAR TURNS 80, IS STILL SPREADING FIRE SAFETY...
A fire in a school dormitory in Kenya killed 17 students and seriously burned 13 others, police said Friday, and they feared the death toll may rise. The cause of the fire Thursday night at Hillside Endarasha Primary school in Nyeri County was being investigated, police spokesperson Resila Onyango said. The school serves children up...
A New Jersey man is accused of lighting the home of his girlfriend’s parents on fire following an argument between the couple, forcing her and the other occupants to evacuate. Leonard Jones, 50, allegedly started the fire after averbal dispute with his girlfriend inside the house on 155 Old Beekman Road in South Brunswick at...
A damning report on a deadly London high-rise fire concluded Wednesday that decades of failures by government, regulators and industry turned Grenfell Tower into a “death trap” where 72 people lost their lives. The public inquiry into the 2017 blaze found no “single cause” of the tragedy, but said a combination of dishonest companies, weak...
The Record Fire that started near San Jacinto, California, burned more than 650 acres on Sunday, according to officials. The brush fire was reported at around 2:15 p.m. near Soboba Road and Gilman Spring Road north of San Jacinto, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. An investigation by fire officials determined the fire was...
Congress’ only career firefighter will introduce Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, at the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) conference in Boston Thursday in an effort to urge members to support the Trump-Vance ticket, after they were the first labor union to endorse President Biden in 2020. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., became a City of Miami firefighter...
An arrest has been made in connection with a fire started in an Athens, Tennessee, church and police say they believe the suspect killed a woman inside before starting the blaze. A police report obtained by WZTV states that surveillance footage captured Kyle Jay Hickox in the area several times before and after the historic...
City council members in Atlanta, Georgia, are considering a $1.5 million settlement for a man who was wrongfully arrested and jailed nearly 14 months for a crime he did not commit. Keith Sylvester was arrested and booked into jail in Fulton County in December 2018 on accusations he strangled and murdered his mother, Deborah Hubbard,...
A Greek-flagged oil tanker traveling through the Red Sea came under repeated attack Wednesday, leaving the vessel “not under command” and drifting ablaze after an assault suspected to have been carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, the British military said. The attack, the most serious in the Red Sea in weeks, comes during a monthslong...
Two people were killed and 12 families displaced after a Maryland house exploded Sunday amid reports of a possible gas leak, fire officials said. Neighbors described feeling and hearing the early morning blast that damaged a number of surrounding houses in Bel Air, a town about about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast of Baltimore. Firefighters...
