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The Danville Fire Department responded to a house fire at 308 Church Street Saturday afternoon.

UPDATE: The Roanoke County Fire Marshal’s Office has concluded its investigation and determined that the cause of the fire was accidental. Damages are estimated at $220,000.

Crews are currently on the scene of a house fire in Roanoke's Wasena neighborhood.

A 36-year-old man faces multiple charges after authorities say he set the fire that destroyed a historic Glasgow home on Sunday.

One person is dead after a house fire on Saturday night in Martinsville.

A family of five lost everything, except for the pajamas they were wearing, in a fire in Galax early Sunday morning, according to the Galax Fire Department.

A fire in Roanoke County claimed the life of a resident and a dog on Thursday, according to Roanoke County Fire and Rescue.

A man has been arrested for his involvement in a house fire that happened over the past weekend, according to Bedford County Fire & Rescue.

Authorities say a malfunctioning space heater sparked Sunday’s inferno in the 19-story building in the Bronx.

Arlington Heights Police and Fire departments responded to the fire about 12:20 a.m. Jan. 7 in the 400 block of West Rand Road. Police arrested the man after he made comments about the fire, the police department said in a news release.

Nineteen people, including 9 children, have been killed in an apartment fire in New York City, in what the city’s fire commissioner called one of the worst blazes in recent memory.

The Bedford County Fire Marshal’s Office is seeking help in locating a man wanted for arson in connection to a Saturday house fire.

A house fire in Northwest Roanoke has left three people and several pets displaced, according to the Roanoke Fire-EMS Department.

The Danville Fire Department says a person died in a house fire Saturday morning.

The president and first lady toured a damaged neighborhood and met with families who suffered losses in the Marshall fire.

Large flames and a huge column of smoke could be seen coming out of the building on Sunday morning.

Roanoke Fire-EMS says a mobile home is a total loss following a fire Saturday morning.

At 1:09AM fire and EMS crews responded to the 600 block of Woods Ave SW.

Crews were working to extinguish a large fire at a Houston-area refinery that broke out early Thursday, injuring four people.

A 2-year-old boy died Tuesday after the house he was in caught fire in the West Pullman neighborhood, a Chicago Fire Department spokesman said.

A home in Roanoke County is a total loss after an early morning house fire, according to Roanoke Fire-EMS.

A man was seen with a bag leaking liquid that ignited, charring the 4th floor clinic in a building that may only have had one escape route, leaving many people trapped.

Police are looking into the possibility that the blaze was deliberately started, say local media.

Japan’s NHK says a fire broke out in a building in Osaka in western Japan and 27 people are feared dead

Dozens of people are trapped on the rooftop of a Hong Kong skyscraper after a major fire broke out, as firefighters rush to rescue them and put out the blaze

The fire — categorized as a level three incident on a scale of one to five — was "largely put out" at 4.30pm local time, the government said on Wednesday

The community is looking for answers after a house in the neighborhood caught fire, leaving bodies behind over the weekend.

A family has been displaced and will be staying with relatives after their house was completely destroyed by a fire in Roanoke County.

The Fire Marshal’s office is investigating what caused a house, car and carport to catch on fire in Danville early Friday morning.

As the 75-year-old sifted through the rubble, strangers stopped by to pray, giving him cards and money.

Crews are on the scene of a fire in Southeast Roanoke, according to Roanoke Fire-EMS.

A dog is dead and a firefighter is in the hospital after a fire in Moneta.

West Main Street in downtown Salem is currently blocked off as fire crews respond to West Salem Barbecue.

No one was hurt after a garage fire in Troutville, according to the Troutville Volunteer Fire Department.

Crews are on the scene of a fire in Northwest Roanoke, according to Roanoke Fire-EMS.

Oak Park firefighters had been on the scene of an extra-alarm commercial fire on Lake Street since about 9:40 a.m. Tuesday.

Firefighters responded to an apartment complex for reports of a fire early Saturday morning.

The man accused of setting the old Bedford Middle School on fire in January 2020 has pleaded guilty.

Residents are warned to keep their windows closed due to smoke spreading over the area.

Several residents were evacuated following a kitchen fire in a Glasgow apartment on Sunday, according to the Glasgow Volunteer Fire Department.

Five citizens and three firefighters are in the hospital following a large house fire in Moneta, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office.

No one was hurt after a fire at a MedExpress in Salem, according to authorities.

Several people were displaced and are now staying with family after an apartment fire in Danville on Friday, according to the Danville Fire Department.

Police in western India say 11 patients have died after a fire broke out in a hospital’s COVID-19 ward.

On the Greek island of Evia last summer an intense conflagration took almost two weeks to control.

The Roanoke FireEMS Department worked to put out a structure fire in Northwest Roanoke early Wednesday morning.

The Danville Fire Department responded to Blue Ridge Fiberboard this afternoon for a large fire outside one of their buildings.

An overnight fire in Danville has left Blue Ridge Fiberboard with $180,000 in damages, according to the Danville Fire Department.

Crews responded to a house fire early Saturday morning in Appomattox County.

At least one person died after jumping from the 19th floor to escape a fire that engulfed a 61-story luxury apartment building in Mumbai in western India on Friday, a fire official said. Television images showed heavy black smoke billowing into the sky from the 19th floor apartment on Curry Road in south Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital. Kailash Aggarwal, the building owner, said there are 400 apartments in the building and all residents were accounted for.

Lynchburg Fire Chief Greg Wormser says the fire that engulfed the Cottage Stillroom and Candle Factory was accidental, but the investigation into what caused Friday’s inferno it is ongoing.

The Danville Fire Department responded to a structure fire located at 250 Celetex Drive around 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning.

Crews are working to put out a fire right outside downtown Lynchburg Friday evening.

Crews are working to put out a fire at Log House 1776 in Wytheville Tuesday night.

The City of Roanoke’s Department of Fire-EMS is reminding residents to have a safety plan in place after two separate house fires left families without a place to call home.

RoCo Fire & Rescue is currently responding to a working house fire in the Bonsack area of Roanoke County.

Two people have died after a house fire earlier this month in Southwest Roanoke, according to Roanoke Fire-EMS.

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Crews shut off power in the area for several hours and there’s still no word on the damage.

Experts say there is a lot to learn from the state's second-largest fire, including how it spread — and how firefighters stopped it.

Crews are on the scene of a furniture store fire in Martinsville, according to Martinsville Fire & EMS.

On Saturday, the Roanoke County Fire & Rescue Department responded to a 5-acre brush fire that they think was human caused.

The Danville Fire Department responded to an early morning house fire on Saturday.

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Authorities in North Macedonia say forensic experts have identified the 14 victims of a fire in a COVID-19 field hospital as 12 patients and two visiting relatives

Experts warn that the fire could destroy thousands of structures and put lives at risk in the next few days.

Several crews responded to a commercial structure fire in Rustburg on Sunday that eventually spread to multiple cars and buildings.

A family's dog and cat died in a house fire at a Danville home Friday evening.

More than 17,000 structures remain under threat from the blaze, which is 5% contained.

Oregon’s Bootleg fire has offered new evidence that Indigenous techniques can change how megafires behave Smoke from the Bootleg fire billows near Sycan Marsh in Oregon. Photograph: US Forest Service/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock The Bootleg fire stampeded through southern Oregon so fiercely that it spit up thunderclouds. But when the flames approached the Sycan Marsh Preserve, a 30,000-acre wetland thick with ponderosa pines, something incredible happened. The flames weakened and the fire sl

Pillars of billowing smoke and ash are blocking out the sun above Greece’s second-largest island as a days-old wildfire devours pristine forests and triggers more evacuation alerts

A fire inspection report cited the Tesla Model S’s thermal management system and a fault in the electrical system as two possible causes in the fire.

A wildfire that broke out Saturday in western Greece forced the evacuation of four villages and people on a beach by the Fire Service, the Coast Guard and private boats, authorities said. The fire was in a mountain forest 30 kilometers (19 miles) east of Patras, Greece's third-largest city, Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis said late Saturday. Aided by strong winds, the fire raced down the slopes and threatened seaside villages.

Navy officials say they do not believe the sailor intended to destroy the ship, but the blaze he set was whipped by high winds into a towering inferno.

The kind of weather needed to fully contain the Bootleg Fire is not expected in this part of Oregon until the late fall.

At least five people were shot in Gresham Wednesday afternoon, about 12 hours after another shooting that left five people wounded in West Garfield Park.

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The effort began when the manager of a nearby resort walked by the burning building and spotted a crowd outside in wedding attire.

A 40-year-old woman died Saturday morning after a house fire broke out in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.

The fire could last for several days.

An evacuation order was in place Monday in a northern Illinois near Rockford because of a chemical fire large enough to be picked up by weather radar, officials said.

A woman died and six people were displaced in a residential fire early Friday in Englewood.

A fire broke out Thursday at a juvenile detention center in Egypt's capital of Cairo, killing at least six children, officials said. The officials said the fire followed a fist-fight between two children in one ward at the facility, located in the city's Marj district. More than two dozen other children were injured, they said.

One man has died and another man in his 80s was in critical condition after a fire started in an East Chatham apartment building on Wednesday evening.

A 53-year-old man died after emergency crews found in him in a burning Little Village apartment early Friday, according to officials.

Firefighters were battling "extreme circumstances" for a 3rd day to put out the blaze on the slopes of the iconic South African mountain.

The fire occurred in the 4300 block of West Ford City Drive in the Ford City neighborhood, according to the Fire Department. The fire was contained to one unit on the first floor and was suspected to have started in the kitchen due to cooking left unattended.

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“All our stuff was in there — my wife managed to get our personal papers, like birth certificates and Social Security, we got all that,” Hernandez said. “It’s just, you know, material things, but that really doesn’t matter now, because my family is safe. We just gotta start over.”

The fire, which began about 10:15 a.m. Jan. 27 at the home in the 700 block of West Oakton Street, is still under investigation by the Des Plaines Fire Department. Fire officials have said the family was likely trapped because the fire started near their apartment’s only exit. The department is investigating whether a space heater was the cause of a fire.

The Chicago Fire Department said the fire was extinguished about 6:30 a.m. but information from the Illinois Department of Transportation said only one lane was open as of about 7 a.m. and traffic congestion was listed as “heavy” on the agency’s website. There were no reports of injuries.

The city issued a violation notice to the property owner for operating a landscaping business, which is not permitted in the zoning district, the release said. The city does not have any building code violations pending related to the construction and occupancy of the building. The city has also not received complaints about any potential violations in the interior of the property.

The fire started about 8:40 p.m. at Era Valdivia Contractors at 11909 S. Ave. O, officials said. The cause of the fire is unknown, said Officer Ronald Westbrooks, a police spokesman.

The fire occurred about 12:55 a.m. in the 500 block of West 72nd Street in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side, police said. The woman was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center.

The fire, in a 1½-story frame home, was reported about 7:40 a.m. in the 2800 block of East 93rd Street, according to a statement from the Chicago Fire Department. The man was taken to Advocate Trinity Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Fire Department.

(Reuters) - Fire swept through a lakefront marina in Alabama early on Monday, killing at least eight people and sending seven others to hospital after flames engulfed 35 vessels from house boats to pontoons, the local fire chief said. Social media images showed a row of boats at the marina engulfed in flames in the predawn darkness at Lake Guntersville in northern Alabama. Officials at first reported eight people missing, and upon further search all eight were found dead, the fire chief said. Our primary objective remains to check every boat, every vessel, everything we can check, to ensure that we have accounted for all the victims, Necklaus said. Authorities will continue search and rescue efforts in addition to environmental cleanup before concentrating on determining the cause of the fire, he said.

(Reuters) - Fire swept a hotel apartment building that provides transitional housing for the poor in downtown Minneapolis early on Wednesday, leaving about 250 people homeless on Christmas morning, city officials said. Three residents with minor injuries were taken to a hospital for evaluation, and several others were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation, officials said. Television news footage showed flames leaping through the roof amid thick smoke as firefighters poured streams of water onto the burning structure. I would estimate that the building is going to be a total loss, assistant fire chief Bryan Tyner told Minnesota Public Radio News. Vandenboom said he then ran back to his room and told his wife, Yeah, we gotta go now. ...

(Reuters) - Fire swept a large apartment building that provides transitional housing for the poor in downtown Minneapolis early on Wednesday, leaving about 250 people homeless on Christmas morning, city officials said. The cause was unknown, Fruetel said, adding that he expected it would take fire crews until Thursday to fully extinguish the blaze. Television news footage showed flames leaping through the roof amid thick smoke as firefighters poured streams of water onto the burning structure. I would estimate that the building is going to be a total loss, assistant fire chief Bryan Tyner told Minnesota Public Radio News. Vandenboom said he then ran back to his room and told his wife, Yeah, we gotta go now. ...

More than 200 evacuated after a Singapore Airlines flight landed with an engine on fire.

It was just over three years ago when a massive explosion and fire at a Texas fertilizer plant left 15 people dead and more than 200 injured. Federal investigators said Wednesday their probe has led them to label the destructive blaze a criminal act. Manuel Bojorquez reports.