About 60 people were evacuated from a tower block in east London after a large fire broke out. More than 125 firefighters tackled the blaze at the high-rise block of flats and offices on Whitechapel High Street, in Aldgate East,…
Ten people were taken to hospitals and several remain unaccounted for following an explosion and fire at a Maryland apartment building Thursday morning, authorities said. Firefighters responded to the Friendly Garden Apartments in Silver Spring, just outside Washington, D.C., about…
Hoboken firefighters investigating an early morning three-alarm blaze pulled two bodies from inside a Jackson Street building Monday afternoon The stubborn blaze at 38 Jackson St., an old commercial facility that had been converted into multiple business and artists’ spaces,…
More than 30,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in Malaysia as the country battled some of its worst flooding in years. The tropical nation in south-east Asia often experiences stormy monsoon seasons towards the end of the year, with flooding…
Rescue workers in Indonesia continued to dig through thick layers of hot ash and debris Monday to find survivors of a volcanic eruption that left more than a dozen people dead and thousands displaced in the country's East Java province, even as…
Dozens of firefighters are tackling a "significant metal fire" at a scrap yard in Nottingham. The blaze at Harrimans Lane, in Dunkirk, Nottingham, started just after 19:20 GMT on Saturday. At its peak more than 100 firefighters tackled the blaze.…
Morocco has brought a fire that ravaged the country's north for several days fully under control, a forestry official said Wednesday. Hundreds of people, including firefighters and soldiers supported by four firefighting planes and other aircraft, battled to the extinguish the…
Firefighters have been tackling two barn fires across Devon, which have seen more than 170 bales of hay set alight. Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue said they had dealt with incidents in Chillington and Hemborough. They were called to…
Turkish officials say search crews have recovered 10 more bodies overnight, raising the death toll from floods and mudslides that struck the north of the country to 27 ANKARA, Turkey -- Search-and-rescue crews in northern Turkey recovered 10 more bodies…
Villages on Evia are evacuated as blaze rages across the island, and fires also threaten suburbs of Athens and historic Olympia At least 150 houses have been destroyed by a raging fire that surrounded a monastery and a dozen villages…