In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like ...

These six American fires led to change: political, legislative and geographic. Those tragedies helped shape the evolving story of the United States.

A new video shows students putting out flames that broke out at a Massachusetts middle and high school on Saturday.

Building a more resilient Los Angeles will require a government refocused on efficiently providing critical infrastructure ...

“The Great Fire of Chicago ... More than 700 buildings in Boston’s downtown were destroyed in the Nov. 9, 1872, fire that began in a warehouse basement. The narrow streets let the flames ...

Meanwhile, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said city leadership ... hoping to find his great-grandmother’s wedding ring in the wreckage. “We just had just had Christmas morning right ...

Jim Fisk was born in Pownal, Vermont. His father was a peddler. When Jim was eight years old his family moved to Brattleboro.

Boston in 1872, San Francisco in 1906. And then they stopped. New rules prohibited wood construction and mandated fire escapes and industry-developed steel structures, engineers invented new ...