Abstract: Early and accurate fire detection in indoor environments is essential to ensuring public safety and minimising casualties and property loss. However, conventional fire alarm systems often ...

Five firefighters were injured as they battled a massive five-alarm fire in a Queens apartment building early Tuesday, including a smoke-eater who was hit in the head with an air conditioner that fell ...

ROSELLE PARK – A five-alarm fire on New Year's Day at a local manufacturer on Valley Road is under investigation, Borough Mayor Joseph Signorello Jr. said in a statement. Around 4:44 p.m. Jan. 1, ...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (WLS) -- An Arlington Heights couple is spreading the word about a simple precaution that they believe saved their home, if not their lives. Although a kitchen fire gutted the ...

A fatal fire in a Lynnwood apartment complex displaced 20 people late Sunday night. South County Fire deemed it a 2-alarm fire, requiring more than 70 firefighters to battle the flames at The Martin ...

COULD DISRUPT YOUR HOLIDAY TRAVEL RIGHT NOW. ALONG THE NEW HAMPSHIRE BORDER, A BARN APPEARS TO BE A TOTAL LOSS. AFTER A FIRE IN WICHITA. A WITNESS SHARED THIS VIDEO OF THE FLAMES RAGING LAST NIGHT.

A three-alarm fire ripped through the Custom House Wharf in Portland Friday night and left two firefighters injured. The fire was first reported at 5:33 p.m. by a crew on the Casco Bay Ferry called in ...

SPRINGFIELD — A local fire chief is stressing the importance of a working smoke detector after a deadly house fire last week in Springfield. As reported on News Center 7 at 6:00, the Springfield Fire ...

DUNSTABLE — A two-alarm fire tore through a home on Main Street late Tuesday afternoon, leaving the house likely a total loss just two days before Christmas. No injuries were reported due to the blaze ...

A three-alarm fire destroyed one home and threatened several others in Seattle’s Leschi neighborhood Friday night. The wind-whipped fire started on the back deck of a two-story house, then spread ...

SEATTLE — A three-alarm house fire in Seattle's Leschi neighborhood was under control within about an hour of it being reported Friday night. The fire was in the 500 block of 34th Avenue. There were ...