FIRE

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

As the foliage turns, AccuWeather long-range forecasters say winter is closer than you may expect.

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

Sharing Soldier Field with the Bears comes with a price for the Chicago Fire. Here’s how much they have to pay Bridgeview to return to SeatGeek Stadium for one match.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Firefighters injured in blast while battling fire aboard cargo shipPublished: June 4, 2020, 11:26 pm9 Jacksonville firefighters have been injured, some of them seriously.

Cargo ship on fire near Blount Island; loaded with vehiclesPublished: June 4, 2020, 6:16 pmJFRD saying all crew members escaped with no injures reported at this time.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A building has been reduced to nothing but ashes and rubble after a fire started at an house on Galvestone Avenue in Jacksonville. One person was hurt and had to be taken to the hospital, but will be O.K. Jacksonville Fire Rescue said the fire started before 2 a.m. Wednesday morning. The structure was fully engulfed in flames before firefighters were called and responded. On Twitter, a spokesperson for JFRD said firefighters described their response to extinguish the flames as a defensive attack.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A fire potentially started by transients has been extinguished in Mixon Town near downtown Jacksonville, according to Jacksonville Fire Rescue. The fire started before 9 a.m. Tuesday under the overpass for I-95 at Dennis and Myrtle Streets. A spokesperson for JFR said several tires were ignited sometime Tuesday morning and noted homeless people are known to live in the area. The fire’s thick, black smoke was visible for miles. Any delays were quickly resolved and no one was injured.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A team of Jacksonville firefighters arrived in the Florida panhandle early Thursday morning to help fight what is now a 2,000-acre wildfire, according to Jacksonville Fire Rescue. We got a request from the state for resources to assist with a Santa Rosa Five Mile Swamp Fire. I’m heading to Santa Rosa County this morning to receive a briefing from local officials on the 2,000-acre wildfire. The Florida Forest Service shows Duval and Nassau counties are currently considered “very high risk” areas. It also said the forest service has battled nearly 1,100 wildfires since January, with 97 percent caused by people.

Published: May 1, 2020, 5:52 am Updated: May 1, 2020, 7:26 amJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 22-year-old man lost his life in an apartment fire early Friday morning, authorities said. Jacksonville firefighters said they responded to Heritage Apartments around 1:30 a.m. after receiving several 911 calls. When firefighters arrived, they found one unit on fire with the 22-year-old man still inside. Firefighters said they were able to put out the fire quickly and that no other apartment units were damaged. JSO said they are still working to notify the family of the 22-year-old.

(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.