Creating defensible space and using hard-to-ignite building materials improve a home’s odds of surviving a conflagration, ...

Last month, Miernowska launched a Change.org petition urging the city of Los Angeles to rebuild using fire-resistant, natural building technologies. It calls for updated building codes and the ...

Fond du Lac Fire Rescue would like to remind everyone that the only safe way to discard smoking materials is in an appropriate fire-proof receptacle.” ...

A fire that ripped through a luxury central London hotel popular with celebrities started accidentally from a pizza oven, the London Fire Brigade (LFB) has said. Chiltern Firehouse was partially ...

Residents of several dozen homes in Ojai were briefly ordered to evacuate or shelter in place Saturday morning after a hybrid electric vehicle caught fire, sending billowing smoke toward the ...

fire-resistant siding, and proper roof ventilation. Dong agrees that public education is urgently needed, but believes we also need “streamlined development and approval processes for new ...

The 10,000-acre Hughes Fire near the Los Angeles County community of Castaic, which sent thousands fleeing this week, was more than 95% contained Sunday with all mandatory evacuation orders lifted.

The fire service was alerted to the fire which began inside the plane just before 10:30 p.m., it said. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said it began in the plane’s tail.

Other materials on the house should also be fire-resistant, from the siding to the roof, to protect them from embers blowing through the air. A tall stucco wall between yards can also help stop ...

And it’s mostly low cost, he adds, usually no more than a few thousand dollars to retrofit a home to make it more fire resistant. “People are attached to their shrubbery,” Bloemers says.