Category: fire

Massive Fire at Cambodia Hotel Casino Kills at Least 16

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—A massive fire that lasted more than 12 hours in a Cambodian hotel casino killed at least 16 people and injured about 50, while other victims were apparently not yet accounted for Thursday, as neighboring Thailand sent firetrucks to help fight the blaze in a bustling border town. Videos posted on social media…


Broncos Fire Rookie Head Coach Hackett After 4–11 Start

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.—The Denver Broncos fired first-year head coach Nathaniel Hackett on Monday with two games left in the season. Team owner and CEO Greg Penner said he’ll lead the search for a new coach with assistance from GM George Paton, in whom he expressed confidence while announcing Hackett’s dismissal. Firing Hackett with two games left…


Sheriff: 6 Believed to Be Dead in Tennessee House Fire

CROSSVILLE, Tenn.—Authorities believe six people were killed in an early morning house fire in Tennessee on Monday. Cumberland County firefighters responded to find the Crossville home fully engulfed in flames, a statement from Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Gary Howard said. Officials believe that four adults and two children were killed in the blaze, Howard…


Blaze Kills 22 in Russian Home for Elderly, Electrical Problems Eyed

A fire ripped through an old people’s home in Russia’s Siberia region, killing 22 people, and investigators are eyeing whether improper use of electrical equipment was to blame, news agencies said on Saturday. The blaze in the city of Kemerovo broke out on Friday night and gutted the second floor of the building, which was…


Snowball’s Christmas Tails by the Fire

This film is only available in the United States and Canada because of territorial licensing. This holiday, spend some time with Snowball and his friends as they tell Christmas stories around the fire, including time-honored Christmas classics. …


Tech Company Fights Wildfires Using Fireball-Dropping Drones

A tech company in the Midwest is using drones and software to help firefighters contain wildfires in a new way. Drones dropping flaming spheres may sound like a futuristic battlefield technique. And in a way, it is. It’s a way to “fight fire with fire,” as the drones drop small fireballs to create controlled burns….


Decades of Evidence May Be Destroyed in Massive Fire at NYPD Warehouse

A massive fire broke out at a New York Police Department warehouse that houses DNA evidence from crime scenes as well as cars, e-bikes, and motor scooters, police and fire officials said. Eight people suffered minor injuries. The fire at the Erie Basin Auto Pound, a low warehouse situated atop a long, curving breakwater on…


Fire Near French City of Lyon Kills 10, Including Children

VAULX-EN-VELIN, France—Ten people including five children aged three to 15 were killed in a fire on Friday that engulfed a residential building in an impoverished town near the southeastern French city of Lyon. Another four people were seriously injured in the blaze in Vaulx-en-Velin, which started around 3 a.m. on the ground floor before spreading…


Fire Engulfs Another Moscow Mall, 2nd Such Fire in 4 Days

MOSCOW—A massive fire gutted a shopping mall on Moscow’s eastern outskirts on Monday, the second such blaze in four days. The blaze at the mall in Balashikha that trades in construction items and home decoration materials first erupted at a storage area and later spread to part of the building. A guard was hospitalized after…


Death Toll in Jersey Fire Rises to 5; 4 Still Missing

LONDON—The number of people killed in an apartment building explosion and fire on the English Channel Island of Jersey has risen to five, and four others are still unaccounted for, police said Sunday. Robin Smith, chief of Jersey Police, said specialist teams were continuing a painstaking search of the area in St. Helier, the island’s…