Tag: firefighters

A section of a major interstate in Connecticut was closed on Thursday after a tractor-trailer carrying thousands of gallons of gasoline caught fire. No one was killed in the incident, ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended the firing of a member of his city’s fire department who died shortly after and whose family is now struggling financially. The firefighter ...

A New York City firefighter who lost his job in December amid a series of slash-and-burn budget cuts to pay for services for illegal immigrants has died. Derek Floyd, 36, ...

Days after New York City Fire Department officials vowed to “hunt down” the hecklers who razzed New York state Attorney General Letitia James, FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh heard from protesters ...

Police in San Diego are seeking an arsonist who torched several vehicles and also set fire to a gate keypad Monday night at the city’s Fox affiliate station. KSWB-TV reported ...

A massive truck explosion injured a number of Los Angeles firefighters, two of them critically, early Thursday morning in the city’s Wilmington neighborhood. KABC-TV reported the blast occurred just before ...

Investigators in Clearwater, Florida, are working to determine how many people are dead after a small airplane crashed into a senior living community Thursday. Multiple people on the ground were ...

"I realized that this gear that was meant to protect firefighters was actually killing them."

Residents of an Arizona town are reeling at the loss of five children who died in a house fire that started while the father was out Christmas shopping. A candlelight ...

Thanksgiving Day brought tragedy for families and first responders in a New Jersey city. A devastating apartment explosion in West New York, New Jersey, has left multiple firefighters injured and ...

In the wake of Hurricane Idalia's landfall in Florida's Big Bend near Keaton Beach on Wednesday, a local fire and rescue department has warned owners of electric-powered vehicles -- including ...

A Tesla that had been sitting for months after a wreck “spontaneously” ignited into flames on Wednesday in California as it was being prepared to be dismantled. The Sacramento Bee ...

The Kentucky office of Republican Sen. Rand Paul was engulfed in flames early Friday morning. Firefighters in the city of Bowling Green were dispatched to Paul’s downtown office in the ...

A new crisis is hitting New York City as batteries that power e-bikes are becoming a growing danger. Fires due to lithium-ion batteries that power electric bikes have killed 13 ...

Tesla didn't have much to say about one of its cars catching fire in California on Saturday, but the car's owner managed to work up a few words. "I'm just ...

A self-driving electric car caught fire at a warehouse in Phoenix earlier this week and firefighters suspect it might not be fully extinguished for weeks. KSAZ-TV reported a Waymo self-driving ...

A 7-year-old and a 19-year-old were killed in a house fire Monday that officials said was caused by an e-bike battery. The fire began on the first-floor vestibule of an ...

Early Friday morning, a neighborhood in Berlin, Massachusetts, was rocked by an explosion as a local 2.5-story wooden frame home went up in flames. Neighbors woke up, dogs were barking, ...

In a horrific and gruesome scene, a man was recently burned to death inside a dumpster in Arizona's largest homeless encampment. The incident followed a series of violent crimes that ...

The Massachusetts home of the son of Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren was destroyed by a fire early Tuesday morning, according to the local media. WFXT-TV reported the home in the ...