After fire crews cleared an apartment fire in the Lloyd District neighborhood in northeast Portland, they discovered a body that appears to be unrelated to the fire incident. Officials say the person died due to “natural causes” prior to the event. “Arson investigators determine the death was not caused by the fire,” reported FOX 12’s […]
A Christmas tree that was set on fire caused a blaze in a Philadelphia row house that killed a dozen people, including eight children, last week, the city’s top fire official said Tuesday, citing preliminary findings of an investigation. Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel, detailing early results from the probe, said seven smoke alarms were […]
LOS ANGELES—A 19-year-old French citizen who was gravely injured when flames tore through a high-rise apartment tower this week died Friday evening at a hospital, authorities said. The Fire Department announced the death but provided no details. The Los Angeles County coroner’s office identified him as Jeremy Bru of France. But it had no other […]
BRATISLAVA—A gas explosion at an apartment block in the eastern Slovak town of Presov killed at least five people on Friday and injured 39, rescuers said. Fire ripped through the top five floors of the 12-story building, causing the roof and a staircase to cave in. Rescuers evacuated 34 people from the building and firefighters […]
MINNEAPOLIS—Five people died when a fire broke out on the 14th floor of a public housing high-rise in a heavily immigrant neighborhood of Minneapolis early Wednesday, with one city official describing the aftermath as “horrendous.” The cause of the blaze in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood—in part of Minneapolis known as Little Mogadishu for the many Somali […]
DES MOINES, Iowa—Four police officers who rushed to the scene of an apartment fire are being hailed for catching three young children dropped by their mother from a third-story window. A video recorded from an officer’s body camera shows Iowa police catching the kids. The officers arrived at the scene early Tuesday morning, March 19, […]
NEW YORK —New York City’s deadliest residential fire in decades spread through every floor of a Bronx apartment building within a matter of minutes, city officials said, killing 12 people — including four children — and sending other residents scrambling outside into the cold and down fire escapes to safety. Those who died Thursday night […]
