Promising solutions are scattered and underused: satellites and sensors; artificial intelligence; drones; autonomous vehicles ...

The report includes an extensive look at a September 2024 underground fire​ and explosion on North Charles Street that took ...

Forward-looking: When wildfires sweep through the dry hills outside Los Angeles, homes can be lost in moments. A California startup imagines a different outcome: as embers fall and nearby brush ...

A wildfire burns in the hills of a Los Angeles suburb, leaping from one patch of dry brush to another as it approaches a cluster of homes. The landscaping at the first house burns, but the house ...

President Donald Trump’s firings of Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris and National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox are lawful, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of ...

Dark smoke was rising nearly 24 hours after the blaze engulfed the apartment complex. More than 270 people were still missing. Smoke billowing from a housing complex in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on ...

Authorities confirmed two police officers were taken to the hospital after a fire was reported Thursday afternoon in the trolley system connecting the Rayburn House and U.S. Capitol buildings. The D.C ...

Residents in more than 120 condominium buildings in San Francisco have received some unwelcome news. They city is now requiring them to add fire sprinklers to their units – a job with a massive price ...

While it may be considered by some as a tedious and necessary evil, fire protection systems require and deserve a specific amount of inspection, testing and maintenance regimens to help ensure ...

A decade ago, two college students built a fire extinguisher that snuffed out a fire using nothing more than a booming 10-inch subwoofer. The internet lapped it up, and Jimmy Fallon even booked a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A massive fire broke out at a battery energy storage system facility in Peoria, Arizona, earlier this month, requiring a large-scale response from multiple area fire departments ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A long-awaited Los Angeles County investigation has examined what went wrong in the response to the L.A. firestorm ...