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A boat with 29 people on board caught on fire near Glen Canyon National Park.

A nighttime fire ripped through a rundown five-story building in Johannesburg that was occupied by homeless people and squatters, killing at least 73 people early Thursday

A Southwest Airlines plane returned to a Houston airport soon after takeoff after flames were seen coming out of the engine Tuesday

Authorities are warning that the effort to find and identify the dead in the Maui wildfire is just beginning. The blaze that razed a historic town and killed at least 96 people is already the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.

A massive fire and multiple explosions reported at Sherwin-Williams paint plant in Garland overnight Monday.

Authorities say people were killed in a house fire in rural North Carolina. The Harnett County Sheriff’s Office told news outlets that the cause of Sunday’s fire in the Broadway community was under investigation.

A family coming together to attend a Long Island funeral for a loved one must now prepare for another one, after a woman was killed in a devastating overnight house fire after she went back inside in an effort to save her beloved dog.

A fire was reported at suburban Glenbrook South High School on Thursday afternoon, with no injuries reported in its aftermath, according to officials.

A fire was reported at suburban Glenbrook South High School on Thursday afternoon, with no injuries reported in its aftermath, according to officials.

The Chicago Fire Department is responding to a fire at a high-rise apartment in the city’s South Shore neighborhood.

A ferry carrying about 250 passengers and crew caught fire in the southern Philippines and a governor says 31 people died. The victims either drowned or died in the blaze and were discovered later.

All missing persons have been accounted for bringing the death toll to seven after an explosion at a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, late Friday afternoon.

Firefighters battled a warehouse blaze in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood on Monday afternoon, causing street closures and calls for additional resources at the scene. NBC 5’s Evrod Cassimy reports.

Firefighters are battling a warehouse blaze in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood on Monday afternoon, causing street closures and calls for additional resources at the scene. 

Officials monitoring the smoldering, tangled wreckage of a train derailment in Ohio have warned hundreds of nearby residents who had declined to evacuate to do so immediately, citing concerns about a potential explosion.

The man allegedly seen on video in a ski mask lighting a Molotov cocktail and throwing it at the front door of a New Jersey synagogue has been arrested, the FBI and spokesperson for the temple said.

A lithium-ion battery from an e-bike sparked the devastating fire at a Queens daycare center that hurt more than a dozen kids, one of them critically, officials say, marking the latest in a series of blazes linked to such units. The fire broke out in the middle of Wednesday afternoon in the basement of what appeared to be a duplex…

Firefighters were battling an extra-alarm blaze on multiple floors of a Chicago high-rise Wednesday morning that left at least one person seriously injured, authorities said.

A surveillance video shared by a Cincinnati family shows their old iPhone 4 catching fire while being charged on the kitchen counter. The family was sleeping when the incident happen, and the fire luckily didn’t lead to major damage according to their social media post.

Emergency crews are on the scene in LaSalle County after heavy fire and clouds of smoke were reported billowing from a chemicals plant in the area, officials have confirmed.