FIRE

A massive fire has destroyed the main post office in the Philippine capital, a nearly 100-year-old neoclassical landmark.

JFRD responded to a deadly fire early Sunday morning on Jacksonville's westside.

The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department responded to a house fire Sunday morning around 3 a.m. at a mobile home on McGlothlin Street, on the westside.

Fifteen cars were burned Thursday morning in a fire at a tow lot on Lee Road in the Regency area of Arlington, according to the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department.

A gymnastics gym on Lenox Avenue that was destroyed in a fire overnight has been a safe haven serving children in the Westside community for more than 35 years, the owner told News4JAX.

Bryceville fire

The News4Jax I-Team has looked up past violations of the Pinova plant.

A fire chief says crews working to fully extinguish an Indiana plastics fire have reduced its smoldering areas to a single hot spot as officials prepared to decide if a dayslong evacuation order should be lifted.

Two people were injured, and half a dozen school buses and several cars were charred when flames broke out at a Student Transportation of America depot in Regency.

One person is dead after a house fire on W. 5th Street

JFRD crews respond to house fire on Main Street and 27th Street.

3 people have been rescued in an apartment fire on Stonemont Street.

No injuries have been reported.

An extensive fire at a home in the San Pareil neighborhood has displaced four people, according to the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department.

Three people were found dead Monday in a Palatka home after a fire, according to the Palatka Police Department.

A man died and another was taken to the hospital after a house went up in flames Saturday morning in the Oceanway neighborhood.

Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department crews rushed to a house fire in the Bartram Park neighborhood Wednesday morning, Captain Eric Prosswimmer said.

An investigation is underway after an early morning fire ripped through a home in Jacksonville’s East Arlington area.

A house fire in Murray Hill left a dog dead and a home destroyed, according to the Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department.

The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue responded Thursday evening to a fire at a home on Andress Street.

Firefighters with the Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department worked to put out a fire at Austin Christian Vocational Academy on Main Street Tuesday morning.

One person is dead after a morning fire in Jacksonville Beach on New Year’s Day.

A fire on Jacksonville’s Eastside is finally under control Saturday evening after Jacksonville Fire and Recuse Department fought the blaze for two hours.

Jacksonville Fire and Rescue crews were on the scene of a house fire at George Wood Lane on Jacksonville’s Westside Monday morning.

Residents at Island Pointe Apartments continue to wait for their power to be restored after Tropical Storm Nicole brought massive flooding and a fire broke out displacing dozens of tenants last Thursday.

Some residents at the Island Point Apartments on Jacksonville’s northside are questioning when their power will be restored after a fire destroyed one of the buildings on Thursday.

While multiple Northeast Florida areas were experiencing flooding as Nicole battered the state, a fire broke out Thursday at an apartment complex on Jacksonville’s Northside, displacing dozens of people, officials said.

Police are investigating what caused a truck to crash into a Neptune Beach church building Thursday morning.

Firefighters from Jacksonville Fire Rescue battled an early morning fire at a Westside apartment complex that is under construction.

A Navy judge has ruled a sailor was not guilty of setting a fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego in 2020.

Crews responded Sunday evening to a house fire in the Woodstock neighborhood, the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department said.

State media says the death toll from a fire at a karaoke parlor in southern Vietnam has risen to 32.

Jacksonville Fire and Rescue put out an early morning fire Friday in the Oceanway neighborhood.

A lightning strike from a rain storm hit a Northside home Sunday afternoon and started a fire, a woman who was in the house told News4JAX.

Navy leaders have disciplined more than 20 senior officers and sailors in connection with widespread leadership and other failures that contributed to the July 2020 arson fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard.

A fire that was sparked Thursday night at the Bentley Green Apartments in the Baymeadows neighborhood was caused by a lightning strike, according to the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department.

Jacksonville Fire Rescue crews responded to the airport Thursday afternoon, after a report of a fire in the cargo hold of a plane.

A Texas community was left in awe after a devastating fire ravished a Bridgeport church on Friday bringing everything to the ground — everything but a cross.

Crews battling a pair of wildfires in northern Arizona were expecting some growth Thursday because of warm, dry and breezy weather.

A reopening date has not yet been announced.

The cause of a mobile home fire is under investigation after it broke out in flames Sunday at 6:22 p.m.

There were seven kids and seven adults that lived in the apartment where the fire started. JFRD said the cause of the fire is still unknown.

Two firefighters were hurt Monday morning while putting out a fire in the Glen Kernan neighborhood, according to the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department.

The Florida Highway Patrol is monitoring a wildfire near Interstate 95 and US 17, in Nassau County.

Greek authorities say a man who was seriously injured in a fire that broke out in the COVID-19 ward of a hospital in northern Greece has died of his injuries.

JFRD responded to a house fire on Guernsey Court.

Nearly 20,000 people who were forced to flee a wildfire in northern Colorado are back home after firefighters were able to stop the spread of the fire at 190 acres.

A spa business inside a building on stilts over water on Baymeadows Park Drive off Baymeadows Road was declared a total loss Thursday after a fire tore through the building.

Jacksonville Fire Rescue put out two house fires and called them both suspicious.

A family left homeless after a westside apartment fire last week is reaching out for help.

JFRD said the fire is under control -- but that items found at the scene called for further investigation.

Around 4:30 a.m. JFRD reported to a mobile home fie on Osteen St.

It took Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department crews just over two hours to put out a fire overnight at the old Thunderbird Motor Hotel.

The American Red Cross was called to help four adults after a mobile home fire on Sears Road, according to the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department.

A man was found dead after a fire broke out Tuesday morning at a mobile home in Jacksonville, authorities said.

The state fire marshal is investigating after a mobile home caught fire on the Westside Monday morning.

House fires happen more in the winter than in any other season, according to the National Fire Protection Association.

Firefighters put it out quickly and no one was hurt.

An adult and child have died after a fire inside a camper parked in Northern Camden County.

The floor is caved in, smoke damage is everywhere and debris is scattered.

Jacksonville Fire and Rescue put out a fire at a vacant home in Biltmore near the intersection of Old Kings Rd and Lane Ave.

An early morning apartment complex fire in Mandarin left multiple units badly damaged with 10 families in need of assistance from the Red Cross.

A man and woman are grateful to be alive after a fire damaged their apartment early Sunday morning.

A man and woman died in an early morning fire in the Rolling Hills neighborhood.

A woman who was pulled from a house fire at West Virginia Avenue at Hema Road in Northwest Jacksonville has died at the hospital, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.

A person is facing life-threatening injuries following a crash this morning near the northbound ramp from 9B to I-95.

The state fire marshal will consider arson as a the possible cause of a fire that ripped through an abandoned factory on River Street in Palatka Sunday afternoon.

Both directions of Philips Highway, from Reba Ave to University Blvd, are closed due to a structure fire at Jacksonville Metal Recycling Center.

A Jacksonville family of twelve lost their home early Saturday after a fire, just one week before Christmas.

Officials say a small fire at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom started in a tree and may have been caused by fireworks debris.

The University of North Florida Police Department is investigating an arson fire on its campus.

Firefighters were called to a fire Friday afternoon at a rail yard in Northwest Jacksonville.

The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department responded to a two-story apartment building fire at 2020 Reed Avenue around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday.

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

A mother and daughter are dead, and a small Clay County community is devastated after a fire ripped through a mobile home Wednesday night.

The state fire marshal will investigate after a fire broke out at an auto repair shop in Jacksonville early Thursday morning.

Crews responded Sunday morning to an apartment fire off Hodges Boulevard, according to the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department.

One person died Friday from an early morning house fire in Starke, according to Bradford County Fire-Rescue.

The fire department says crews were called to the Piccadilly Apartments at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday and discovered a fire burning on the roof of the two-story apartment building.

A warehouse holding a reported 15 metric tons (16.5 tons) of fireworks in central Moscow caught fire on Saturday, sending a huge cloud of smoke and a fusillade of explosions over the area.

A 64-year-old man died after a fire broke out at his home in Mayport Wednesday morning, according to the property’s community manager.

Residents told News4Jax there have been issues with people entering the school for a long time.

The cause of a fire Sunday morning at an abandoned school on the city’s Eastside is considered suspicious, according to the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – One person died in a house fire early Monday morning, according to the Jacksonville Fire-Rescue. The victim was found in the living room area adjacent to the kitchen. One died and the other was taken to a local veterinarian’s office. “I’m a 65-year-old woman, so it really (a) nervous wreck.”The state fire marshal and JSO homicide detectives called to investigate the cause of the fire, which is standard protocol, according to JFRD. AdThe fire marshal was called to determine how the fire started.

A historic Black church was destroyed by a fire last Thursday night. Now, members of St. Simon’s Baptist Church are making do by holding services outside. The pastor’s assistant said the church staff will keep holding services outside until the church is rebuilt. It’s joy that I cannot explain.”Ambakisye, the assistant pastor at St. Simons Baptist Church, said Sunday’s service was wonderful and chose to focus on the good rather than the church being destroyed. Investigators are calling the fire that destroyed St. Simon’s Church on Thursday night suspicious.

GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. – Investigators are working to determine what caused a brush fire to spark near Golden Isles Parkway and Highway 99 in Glynn County Sunday morning. It grew to 150-acres before the blaze was contained, the Georgia Forestry Commission confirmed. Glynn County Fire Department said the agency was first called around 11:30 am., and more units were called as the fire grew. When you have dry brush like that it burns really fast and it looks spectacular,” said Captain Bobby Armstrong. The Georgia Forestry commission flew over the fire to track its movement.

The OVH data center is seen in Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday, March 11, 2021. A fire broke out on Wednesday in a room of one of the 4 OVH cloud data center affecting websites in several European countries. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)PARIS – Numerous companies and websites in France suffered outages and disruptions to services after a fire swept through a cloud computing provider's facility. No one was injured in the blaze, which destroyed one of the site's four data centers and damaged another one. AdOVH operates 15 data centers in Europe and competes with giant U.S. cloud-computing rivals such as Amazon Web Services.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A state fire marshal has been called to investigate what caused a house in Arlington to catch fire three times over the last two days. Jacksonville firefighters first responded to the home on Aletha Drive before 2 a.m. Wednesday. Firefighters determined the fire started in a crawl space area underneath the home Wednesday morning. They were able to put the flames out quickly during their initial call but returned before 6 a.m. when the fire reignited. Thursday morning around 5:30, firefighters returned a third time when flames were seen in the back of the home and along the ridgeline.

Photo shows two Bradford County firefighters bravely face a home nearly engulfed in flames. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A home in Bradford County is a complete loss after an early morning fire broke out. Bradford County firefighters responded to the blaze before 6 Thursday morning. 8:50 AM UPDATE- Crews are continuing to perform overhaul operations and the State Fire Marshal’s Office has arrived to... Posted by Bradford County Fire Rescue on Thursday, January 21, 2021No one was injured, and the homeowners were away at the time of the fire. The fire marshal is investigating the cause.

In this photo released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service, firefighters work at the site of fire at a nursing home in the town of Borovsky, western Siberia, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. Russian authorities say seven people have died in the fire at a nursing home in western Siberia. (Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations press service via AP)MOSCOW – A fire at a nursing home in Siberia killed seven people on Saturday, Russian authorities said. The fire took place at the private home for the elderly in the Tyumen region of western Siberia. Local officials said the home in the town of Borovsky wasn't registered with authorities.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville firefighters battled a fuel tanker fire on I-10 westbound early Christmas Eve morning. The tanker was carrying 6,000 gallons of gasoline and 2,500 gallons of diesel when flames sparked. All westbound lanes of I-10 at Hammond Boulevard were closed while crews transfered the fuel. Otherwise, traffic is being redirected onto the 295 exit. If you follow the latter route, you’ll need to use 295 northbound to exit to Commonwealth Avenue, go left on Commonwealth, and then use Picketville Road south to get to US 90.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A local player on a youth football team is in Orlando but doesn’t know what he’s returning home to. They are in Orlando right now playing in the Youth Football League tournament. They beat the Western Pennsylvania Elite, 12-6 on Wednesday and moved on to Friday’s championship against the Maryland Seahawks. What Ehmir doesn’t know is that his home was ravaged by fire last weekend. Ehmir didn’t know about the fire because they wanted him to be able to have fun in his big game.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – State fire marshals are investigating a suspicious fire that engulfed a shopping center early Thanksgiving morning. The fire at the Village Plaza shopping center in Daytona Beach broke out at about 4 a.m. Thursday and spread into several units, according to WKMG-TV in Orlando. Daytona Beach fire officials believe the flames started in a nutritional store. Many of the units were not currently being leased and there were no people at the time of the fire. Fire officials are calling the fire suspicious and said the state fire marshal is investigating.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville firefighters are working to extinguish the remaining hot spots from a massive fire in a multi-use building on New Kings Road near the intersection of Gilchrist Road in Northwest Jacksonville. A spokesperson for JFRD said the building was a place of business for a trucking company and held several storage units. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office closed both lanes of New Kings Road while firefighters are still on scene. We are learning it was a multi-use building including storage and a trucking company @wjxt4 pic.twitter.com/J2xfz9HlAO — Jennifer Ready (@JenniferReadyTV) November 25, 2020At least 10 ladders with Jacksonville Fire Rescue were on scene before 5 a.m. and a spokesperson for JFRD said about 80 firefighters were on scene. RELATED: 4 firefighters burned attempting rescue from house fireSeveral ambulances were standing-by as well in case of injury, but there were none.

JaxPAL reopening Eastside location Tuesday after fire in MarchJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – JaxPAL announced its Eastside center officially reopened on Tuesday. The location caught on fire back in March and was severely damaged. JaxPAL Eastside held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 3:30 p.m.“The work JaxPAL does for our children and the communities we serve is critical to developing positive relationships with law enforcement, create leaders, and support families,” Kimberly Waterhouse said. Click here for more information.

Green Cove Springs, FL – Clay County Fire Rescue responded to a 3 story apartment building fire at the 200 block of St. Johns Avenue in Green Cove Springs. At about 5 a.m., crews said the fire was out and confined to the outside decks of the complex. Firefighters are investigating the cause of the fire.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville firefighter injured while fighting a blaze a commercial warehouse in Mixon Town early Monday morning is out of the hospital and recovering at home. A spokesperson for Jacksonville Fire Rescue said the injuries were minor but didn’t elaborate. #DEVELOPING: @JFRDJAX still battling hotspots at @WWGayMechanical in Jacksonville’s Mixon Town neighborhood. One firefighter was injured and transported to a nearby hospital with minor injuries. When crews arrived, they found the fire burning in the space between the ceiling and the roof of the building.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department responded to house fire in the Downtown area around 11:30 p.m. Friday. Responding crew members could see the flames burning from outside the home. Within minutes, the department said that the fire was under control. After an initial search of the home, JFRD said there was no one inside. The State Fire Marshal has been called to lead an investigation into the late night house fire.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department responded to a house fire on Shortreed Street, around 7:00 a.m. Saturday Morning. Crews reported seeing heavy flames inside the home. The officers on scene declared the house clear after a search. Within minutes, JFRD announced that the blaze was under control. Command has requested a investigator to look further into the cause of the early morning fire.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville Fire Rescue said it took 65 firefighters to contain a blaze that consumed multiple sections of a commercial building in Mixon Town near Riverside before dawn Friday. Shortly after firefighters arrived, they were ordered out of the building for safety. A spokesperson for JFRD said the front half of the building is destroyed, but the back half was saved from the flames. Drivers are warned and reminded to slow down and keep their attention on the road when near any fire scene. Fire officials noted this fire made for the ninth multi-alarm fire in 2020, an unusually high number for the department.