INDIANAPOLIS—A 3-year-old girl has died more than two weeks after she was seriously injured in an Indianapolis apartment fire that killed her father and 15-month-old sister, a fire official said. Battalion Chief Rita Reith said the Indianapolis Fire Department was notified that the girl died Thursday morning. She was among five people hospitalized after firefighters […]
CHICAGO—Chicago authorities said one person has died and eight others were taken to hospitals Wednesday as firefighters responded to a high-rise apartment building fire on the city’s South Side, battling flames that leaped up 10 floors as snow fell. Chicago Fire Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt said the eight people taken to hospitals were all stable by […]
MILWAUKEE—A Milwaukee man who landed on the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list after he allegedly killed two people and wounded three others at a 2006 Memorial Day picnic has been found dead in his jail cell. Octaviano Juarez-Corro was found unresponsive in his cell in the Milwaukee County Jail around 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, […]
TOPEKA, Kan.—The only survivor of a Kansas house fire that killed a woman and two young girls has been arrested on suspicion of setting the blaze. Topeka police arrested Kyle J. Tyler, 32, of Holton, on Saturday, not long after he was released from a hospital once police questioned him. He remained jailed Sunday on […]
SEOUL, South Korea—A fire destroyed about 60 makeshift homes in a densely packed neighborhood surrounded by towering high-rise apartments and lavish shopping districts of South Korea’s ultramodern capital Friday. Firefighters extinguished the flames in Seoul’s Guryong village within about five hours, and no injuries or deaths were reported. Shin Yong-ho, an official at the fire department […]
BERLIN—Police on Wednesday said a fire that killed three people in a psychiatric nursing home in southern Germany late Tuesday could have been set intentionally by one of the home’s residents. The fire, which broke out on the second floor of the home in Reutlingen, killed a 53-year-old woman and two men aged 73 and […]
INDIANAPOLIS—A man died Wednesday, two days after a fire at an Indianapolis apartment left him unconscious and four children ages 1, 3, 12, and 14 in critical condition, a battalion chief said. Indianapolis firefighters performed CPR on the five victims and transported them to hospitals late Monday, but the man died early Wednesday morning, Battalion […]
A chemical plant in northern Illinois went up in flames on Wednesday morning, sending up plumes of black smoke and prompting officials to advise nearby residents to shelter in place as emergency crews responded to the blaze. The fire broke out at the Carus Chemical Company complex in LaSalle, a city of less than 10,000 […]
HAMILTON, Ontario—There was no evidence of working smoke alarms in a Hamilton house that caught fire, claiming the lives of four people, Ontario officials said Friday. Two adults and two children died in a hospital after firefighters pulled them from the second floor of the burning townhouse Thursday night in the city’s southeast, Hamilton fire […]
POIPET, Cambodia—Cambodian rescue teams recovered several bodies on Friday from the charred rooms of a casino hotel where a fire killed at least 27 people a day earlier, with more than 20 people still missing. About 400 employees and patrons were in the Grand Diamond City casino and hotel in Poipet, a town on the […]
