The fire that killed at least 40 people in a Swiss bar on New Year’s Day was made more likely by apparent flaws in the site’s design and management, experts say. By Ségolène Le Stradic Pranav Baskar ...

The fatal fire that engulfed a Swiss bar on New Year's Eve would likely have killed even a firefighter in full protective gear — let alone the hundreds of young people freely celebrating inside. At ...

Forty people were killed and 119 were injured in the blaze. Investigators probing the deadly New Year's Day fire at a Swiss resort bar are looking into the possibility that it started from sparklers ...

As of January 1, the Maple Plain Fire Department is now a part of the West Suburban Fire District (WSFD). "This is the future of, I believe, many fire departments with the staffing issues, with not as ...

HONG KONG, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's leader said on Tuesday a judge-led committee will investigate the cause of the city's deadliest fire in decades and review oversight of building renovations ...

MEDINA, OH - Fire investigators have long worked in a gray area of protection where full structural turnouts are overkill, but single-layer garments may not cover every single hazard they encounter.

After kids, teens, and even some adults are finished knocking on your door in hopes of scoring pieces of candy (or full-size candy bars, if you're really looking to impress), it won't be long until ...

Using inaudible sound waves to stop a fire may sound like something out of a science fiction novel, but a local startup led by a former NASA researcher is developing a system capable of doing just ...

ST. LOUIS – A man died early Tuesday morning in a house fire in south St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Fire Department, the fire occurred around 5:30 a.m. on the 5900 block of Southwest Avenue, ...

Just before midnight on New Year’s Eve, Jonathan Rinderknecht finished up a stint as an Uber driver and drove to a hiking area just north of Pacific Palisades, California. It was a familiar place for ...

The sad and apparently troubled young man now being accused of setting the hideous and deadly Palisades fire will be the target of venom, to be sure. But what’s maddening to many of the people who ...

Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS News in 2025, he ...