Kirstin Downey, a former Civil Beat reporter ... Honolulu officials thought fire could stop the bubonic plague from spreading through the growing city. But high winds thwarted that plan.

The Castaic Sports Complex, also under a mandatory evacuation order, is being used as a fire command post. Evacuation warnings were also extended toward Newhall Ranch Road, the Santa Clarita area ...

Mass. state troopers received reports of a marked Windsor Fire Department pickup truck conducting “suspicious motor vehicle stops” on I-91 in Northampton and Whatley, according to the statement.

CAMERON − The Wood County Sheriff’s Office has identified a 64-year-old woman killed early Tuesday morning in a one-vehicle crash and fire in the town of Cameron. Robin R. Skorie, 64 ...

Nearly a thousand people are under a mandatory evacuation order after a brush fire broke out Tuesday afternoon near Fashion Valley Mall in Mission Valley. The Friars Fire broke out just after 12: ...

San Diego County firefighters were working to contain the Lilac Fire, one of three brush fires that broke out early Tuesday morning prompting evacuation orders, school closures and power shutoffs ...

At least 66 people were killed, and 51 people were injured when a fire spread through a Turkish ski resort, according to Reuters citing local officials. The fire broke out at the Kartal Hotel in ...

Jose Iglesias [email protected] A day after opening fire on an armored U.S. embassy van and wounding a local hire, armed gangs in Haiti on Tuesday fired on three vehicles, two of them ...

Some survivors spoke of terrifying escapes. By Ben Hubbard and Safak Timur Reporting from Istanbul A fire blazed through a 12-story hotel at a ski resort in Turkey on Tuesday, killing at least 76 ...

The West Florence Fire Department said crews responded just before 5 p.m. to Pisgah Road in the area of West Lucas Street, for the report of a multi-vehicle collision. The car on fire was put out ...

MAKAKILO, Hawaii (KHON2) — A Honolulu Fire Department Fire Investigator has been requested for an early morning vehicle fire in Makakilo. The 911 call came in on Sunday, Jan. 19 shortly before 4 ...