The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like cooking food, staying warm, and protection from predators. For thousands ...

IN 2025, MOST OF THEM CHILDREN UNDER A YEAR OLD. AN ELECTRICAL FIRE WAS REPORTED AT THE BILTMORE ESTATE IN ASHEVILLE. FIRE OFFICIALS SAY IT WAS A MECHANICAL ROOM AT THE WINERY AND WAS CONTAINED BY A ...

Emergency workers clear wreckage on Saturday from a fire the night before near Commercial Street in Portland. (Fire Marshal's Office) PORTLAND — Firefighters Saturday morning were still spraying down ...

A massive fire tore through a row of stores and an apartment building in the Bronx overnight, bubbling a virtual inferno into the dark sky but causing no serious injuries. The fire broke out at a ...

1159 IS THE TIME ON THIS THURSDAY. THANKS FOR JOINING US FOR THE NEWS AT NOON. I’M ELENA LAQUATRA THIS AFTERNOON. FIRE OFFICIALS IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY ARE WORKING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT CAUSED A HOUSE TO GO ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Fire crews in San Francisco on Monday afternoon extinguished a gas tank blaze at a gas station in the Mission, the Fire Department said. At 4:41 p.m., firefighters were called to the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Fire Department responded to a large fire at a lumber yard in Kansas City’s East Side Tuesday morning. KCFD was sent to a fire at East 14th Terrace and Norton Avenue ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

ROSWELL, N.M. – Authorities are investigating a fire that destroyed a large commercial building at the Roswell Air Center. The fire broke out just before 8:00 p.m. on Thursday night, and spread ...

HILLSBORO, Ala. (WAFF) - Two adults and three children are dead after a Lawrence County house fire, according to Lawrence County Coroner Scott Norwood. “They are a precious family. I’ve prayed over ...

Early signs suggest that Hong Kong’s worst fire in decades was the result of negligence, poor decisions and circumstance. This photo offers telling clues of how hazardous materials helped turn homes ...