CHEBOYGAN, Mich. (AP) – A fire at a northern Michigan paper mill Wednesday has closed several roads and prompted state police to warn people to stay away from the area. Plumes of thick and heavy black and gray smoke billowed …
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) – An October fire that left an Evansville warehouse and neighboring buildings in ruins began on the third floor of the warehouse after someone started it to keep warm, firefighters said. The fire began around 4:40 a.m. …
Managers of a burning warehouse, which rapidly became so engulfed that flames threatened nearby homes, waited a day before calling the local fire department for help, Georgia state investigators said in a report. A giant pile of wood pellets awaiting …
Officials say a fire at an Alabama warehouse is the most disastrous in the city of Attalla’s history. Alabama State Fire Marshal Scott Pilgreen told the Gadsden Times Friday that investigators estimate warehouse losses at more than $50 million. Authorities …
One was a ship in name only, an artist commune set up in an Oakland warehouse. The other was a bona fide boat afloat on the ocean off Santa Barbara. Both became fiery death traps for a combined 70 souls, …
A jury has begun deliberating the fate of two men charged in a deadly fire at a San Francisco Bay Area warehouse two years ago. Derick Almena and Max Harris were charged with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of 36 …
The trial against two men arrested after a deadly warehouse fire in the San Francisco Bay Area is wrapping up. Prosecutors began closing arguments Monday against Derick Almena and Max Harris, both charged with involuntary manslaughter after the December 2016 …
A warehouse fire in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., has caused damage to a business that supplies temporary bleachers and scaffolding. Prince George’s County fire department spokesman Mark E. Brady told the Washington Post that the fire at the …
An electrical fire inside a ventilation fan is believed to have fed a Thursday fire that destroyed a northeast Mississippi factory. Alcorn County Deputy Fire Coordinator Jackie Farr tells The Daily Cornithian that Palmer-Handrail Custom Millwork employees tried to put …
County officials say the cost of the response to a warehouse fire in West Virginia is already more than $1 million. The Parkersburg News and Sentinel quotes Wood County Commission president Blair Couch in a Tuesday report as saying that …
