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Two fires sprang up in northern Los Angeles County Thursday. An out-of-control wildfire burning north of State Route 14 was closing in on homes in the hills around Palmdale.

Calm, cool weather Thursday morning dampened a wildfire that destroyed 25 buildings north of Los Angeles, and crews were prepared for afternoon winds that could kick up the flames again, a fire spokesman said.

A brush fire devoured 30 to 40 homes and triggered evacuations in a remote section of a southern California mountains community on Tuesday, a Kern County Fire Department engineer said.

A family of seven flee from a fire in their home believed to have been started by a three-year-old.

An explosion and fire at a Washington state oil refinery shook homes and shot flames into the night sky early Friday, killing three people and critically injuring four others....

Two arrests have been made in a string of deliberately set church fires in east Texas, a fire official said Sunday.

Hundreds of Chicago firefighters worked to put out a high-rise fire that left one person dead and 12 people injured.

The fire chief of a Russian city where a nightclub blaze killed 118 revelers was fired Tuesday and authorities said fire records ...

Commuters biked, walked, juggled carpool schedules and hitched rides as a strike ground the city's transit system to a near halt for a second day Wednesday, a morning rush worsened when a regional rail train caught fire....

Someone stabbed a 45-year-old plastic surgeon to death, then set fire to his French Quarter home early Saturday.