Isabelle Taft, a reporting fellow for The New York Times, writes of the parallels and differences in covering hurricanes and ...

A 3-year-old girl was pronounced dead on Wednesday after sustaining injuries in a Marshalltown house fire earlier in the week.

PacifiCorp has waged a campaign, in the courts and now in the halls of the state Capitol, to reduce its financial obligation.

Fires caused by smoking materials also had the lowest numbers of direct property damage. From 2016 to 2020, around 29,400 house fires (or 9 percent) in the U.S. were intentionally caused.

Dougnitrio D. Smith Jr., 26, was charged with first-degree murder in the slaying Elizabeth Adams, 67, in Port Orange in 2020.

Two new house bills, 3165 and 3941, aim to provide both short-term and long-term aid to districts impacted by the blazes. The fires that swept through the state over Labor Day weekend in 2020 left ...

And, Brown said, in some cases a fire engine just happened to be in position to save a single house. Fire Capt. Brett Klemme said the wind pattern protected some homes when a fire was blown in ...