A massive fire that has charred more than 147,000 acres in Southern California and destroyed dozens of homes north of Los Angeles was caused by arson, a U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman said Thursday.
An increase in humidity on Thursday has helped firefighters in southern California get a handle on the massive fire that has charred nearly 145,000 acres and destroyed dozens of homes.
The investigation into the massive Station fire north of Los Angeles is underway with authorities working to determine how the raging fire started, fire officials in California said Wednesday.
A Somali woman and five of her daughters were killed Saturday night in an apartment fire in Stockholm, Swedish authorities said.
Six people were killed, including three children, when a fire broke out in a high-rise apartment building in south London on Friday afternoon, officials said.
Polish authorities declared Tuesday a day of mourning after a massive hostel fire killed 21 people.
A firefighter in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, was arrested Monday in connection with two recent arson incidents, authorities said.
A fire raged for hours in central London Wednesday, sending black smoke high into the air over the city.
Authorities have made a second arrest related to a series of arsons in the Coatesville, Pennsylvania, area, the Chester County Arson Task Force said late Thursday.
Fire early Wednesday caused extensive damage to the roof and attic of the Holy Name Cathedral, fire and church officials said, but the sanctuary of the beloved 134-year-old city landmark and seat of Chicago's archdiocese was spared.
A massive fire that has charred more than 147,000 acres in Southern California and destroyed dozens of homes north of Los Angeles was caused by arson, a U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman said Thursday.
An increase in humidity on Thursday has helped firefighters in southern California get a handle on the massive fire that has charred nearly 145,000 acres and destroyed dozens of homes.
The investigation into the massive Station fire north of Los Angeles is underway with authorities working to determine how the raging fire started, fire officials in California said Wednesday.
A Somali woman and five of her daughters were killed Saturday night in an apartment fire in Stockholm, Swedish authorities said.
Six people were killed, including three children, when a fire broke out in a high-rise apartment building in south London on Friday afternoon, officials said.
Polish authorities declared Tuesday a day of mourning after a massive hostel fire killed 21 people.
A firefighter in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, was arrested Monday in connection with two recent arson incidents, authorities said.
A fire raged for hours in central London Wednesday, sending black smoke high into the air over the city.
Authorities have made a second arrest related to a series of arsons in the Coatesville, Pennsylvania, area, the Chester County Arson Task Force said late Thursday.
Fire early Wednesday caused extensive damage to the roof and attic of the Holy Name Cathedral, fire and church officials said, but the sanctuary of the beloved 134-year-old city landmark and seat of Chicago's archdiocese was spared.
A fire on the back porch of a home in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, was the town's 18th arson fire of the year, authorities determined Wednesday morning.
Four more fires were deliberately set early Saturday in an area of eastern Pennsylvania plagued by arsons, authorities said.
Federal agents are investigating another suspicious fire in a Pennsylvania town that has endured a string of arsons, a spokesman said Wednesday.
Residents looking for an end to a string of arson fires went to Coatesville City Hall on Monday demanding action.
The fourteenth suspicious fire in a month's time hit a small community near Philadelphia before dawn Sunday.
A "suspicious" fire devastated the church attended by Alaska Gov. and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Friday night in her hometown of Wasilla, the church's minister said.
A financially strapped South Korean man went on an arson and stabbing rampage in Seoul on Monday, leaving six people dead and seven others wounded, police said
An industrial vacuum cleaner left switched on inside the historic Cutty Sark ship was the most likely cause of the fire last year that gutted the 19th-century tea clipper, police said Tuesday.
Eurostar passenger trains were running again Saturday through the Channel Tunnel between England and France after authorities extinguished a fire that burned for nearly 22 hours.
Train service through the Channel Tunnel between England and France is set to resume Saturday morning after authorities extinguished a fire that burned for nearly 22 hours, officials said.
Authorities on Thursday halted all traffic running through the 50-kilometer (30-mile) Chunnel after a fire broke out inside the tunnel, which runs between Britain and France underneath the English Channel, Eurotunnel and fire officials said.
A fast-moving brush fire has destroyed at least one home and damaged several others in a neighborhood in Reno, Nev
At least 20 people were killed and five others injured when a fire broke out on a train in southern India early Friday, railway officials said.
A fire at a boarding house early Friday killed five men and one woman, injuring 11 other people, South Korea's Yonhap news service reported.
A spectacular fire Friday destroyed a Maine boatyard that turned out commercial fishing boats
A 45-year-old man and a 5-year-old boy leapt to their deaths Tuesday after a fire swept through an apartment building, authorities said.
An early morning fire that severely damaged the Texas governor's mansion in Austin may have been caused by arson, fire officials said Sunday.
A fire aboard the USS George Washington aircraft carrier left one sailor with minor burns
Ten people were killed Thursday after fire swept through a house outside Brockway, Pennsylvania, authorities said.
German police said Friday they suspect arson caused an overnight fire at a house inhabited by three Turkish families in southern Germany.
A large fire tore through London's famed Camden Market Saturday night, sending huge flames and clouds of smoke above the city skyline and forcing evacuations, authorities said.
Police have refused to rule out arson as the cause of a blaze that killed at least nine people - including five children -- at a southwest Germany apartment building Sunday.
A massive fire swept through a newly constructed warehouse in Icheon, South Korea Monday, burning for several hours and setting off a series of explosions that killed 40 workers inside, fire officials have told CNN.
A Canadian firetruck responding with lights and sirens to a weekend fire in Rouses Point, New York, was stopped at the U.S. border for about eight minutes, U.S. border officials said Tuesday.
Five children and two adults -- understood to all be members of the same family -- died early on Tuesday morning after a house fire swept through their Northern Ireland home.
The owner of a North Carolina beach house where seven college students died in a weekend fire said Monday that his family's "lives were just changed forever" by the tragedy.
Authorities recovered a body from an upstate New York farmhouse that burned down after police surrounded it in search of a man suspected of killing a state trooper and wounding two others, a state police spokesman said Wednesday.
Three people were killed and at least seven were injured Wednesday in a four-alarm fire at an office building in northeast Houston, authorities said.
A night watchman ignored two fire alarms at a Russian old people's home where a blaze killed at least 62 people, emergency officials said.
A fire engulfed portions of a central North Carolina nursing home Monday night, killing one resident and injuring 19 others, a county official said.
Fire engulfed an 11-story office building housing several media outlets in a Dhaka business district Monday, killing at least two people and injuring 200 others, authorities said.
A fire at a mental health hospital in Siberia killed eight people a day after a fire at a Moscow drug treatment facility killed 45 women, Russian media reported.
A fire broke out at a fraternity house just off the campus of the University of Missouri at St. Louis, killing a person believed to be a student, a university spokesman said.
A massive fire broke out at Turkey's Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul on Wednesday, forcing hundreds to flee as huge plumes of black smoke darkened the sky. CNN's Miles O'Brien spoke to CNN producer Kaya Heyse at the scene of the blaze for "American Morning" shortly after 9 a.m. ET.
A fire broke out Thursday on the Jamaica-bound Star Princess cruise ship, and one person died of a heart attack, according to cruise line officials.
The company behind the new "Wallace and Gromit" film said Monday its "entire history" has been destroyed in a fire at a warehouse containing props and sets.
Seven people were killed, including four children, when a fire ripped through a rundown Paris apartment building housing African immigrants, officials said Tuesday.
A massive fire has swept through a seven-story Paris apartment building early Friday, killing 17 people and injuring as many as 30 others, authorities say.
Earl Mohlis says he has no doubt the fire that burned down his house last month, killing his wife of 34 years, started under the hood of his 1996 Ford F-150 pickup truck -- and he is suing the company, he says, to prevent more deaths.
An Iowa man is suing Ford, claiming that the death of his 74-year-old wife was caused by a fire that began in their Ford F-150 pickup truck, which was parked in an attached garage and spread to the house.
A hotel fire in southern China has killed 30 people and injured 15, the official Xinhua News Agency reports.
Convinced that details didn't add up, investigators determined that a house fire in Cleveland, Ohio, that killed nine people, including eight children, was set intentionally, the city's mayor said Wednesday.
A children's sleepover in Cleveland, Ohio, ended tragically early Saturday when fire swept through the white, two-story home, killing nine people, including seven children.
Nineteen of 26 homes burned in a Charles County, Maryland, subdivision were the result of arson, authorities said Wednesday.
Authorities investigating suspicious fires that destroyed 12 homes and damaged 14 others in a Charles County subdivision are looking for the driver of a blue van that was seen in the area when the fires broke out, a federal law enforcement source close to the investigation told CNN on Wednesday.
A house fire killed four children Friday night on Chicago's West Side. Investigators described the blaze as suspicious, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.
A fire producing thick plumes of black smoke has knocked out power in parts of central Madrid and caused traffic gridlock.
Chlorine-laced clouds of smoke billowed over Interstate 20 in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, as a warehouse storing pool chemicals burned into Tuesday afternoon, officials said.
Even before the cameras started rolling on "The Prince & Me," which opened Friday, co-star Luke Mably had his royal ways in hand.
A fire that authorities six years ago thought killed a 10-day-old girl was a ruse to kidnap the infant, Philadelphia police said Monday.
At least 90 people have been killed in two weekend fires in eastern China -- one in a department store and another in a temple, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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