Tag: Fires
Park outdoors: Ram recalls heavy-duty trucks for fire risk
DETROIT — The company that makes heavy-duty diesel Ram trucks is telling some owners to park them outdoors due to the risk of an...
Kosovo court convicts 1 Serb, 1 Albanian of 1999 war crimes
PRISTINA, Kosovo — A Kosovo court on Tuesday jailed a Serb former police officer and an Albanian policeman convicted of murder and other war...
Judge mulls requiring PG&E to turn off power more frequently
SAN RAMON, Calif. — A federal judge overseeing Pacific Gas & Electric's criminal probation said Tuesday that he is considering requiring the utility to...
Auto industry braces for more chip shortages after fire
NEW YORK — A fire at a plant owned by Japanese chipmaker Renesas could deepen the ongoing global semiconductor shortage that has especially hampered...
DISPATCH: When home burns, and your job is to cover it
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains had not burned in decades. But they burned the year I lived...
Girl, 8, throws mattress from burning home, jumps to safety
CHICAGO — An 8-year-old Chicago girl whose mother was at work somehow managed to toss a mattress from her family's third-story window during a...
Man faces hate crime charge in Florida church arson attack
OCALA, Fla. — A man accused of setting a Florida church on fire last year is facing a federal hate crime charge, prosecutors announced...
Fire festival incidents kill 10, injure hundreds in Iran
TEHRAN, Iran — Mishaps during an annual fire festival in Iran have left at least 10 people dead and hundreds more injured around the...
Owner of boat that burned, killing 34, sells other vessels
LOS ANGELES — The owner of a scuba diving boat that burned and sank off the California coast, killing 34 people, has sold off...
Wildfire burns 20 acres in NW Indiana, sends smoke onto I-65
MERRILLVILLE, Ind. — About 20 acres (8 hectares) in Northwest Indiana burned after flames spread from an open burn pit into surrounding fields fields,...