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The bus was evacuating prisoners from a penitentiary in the fire’s path when it got caught in the flames, rescue workers reported.

Two wildfires burning in Colorado on Friday prompted the evacuations of the homes of 1,700 people as well as more in neighboring foothills where dozens of houses were burned in a blaze last month.

Firefighters battle to control Thursday s blaze at the Westfield Galleria in Roseville. As the fire at the 1.3 million-square-foot mall raged into early evening, officials were uncertain about the extent of the damage to one of Roseville's key economic engines – or how long the mall might be closed.

A mother in Louisville, Kentucky, has died after saving her three children and two nieces by pushing them out the second-story window of her burning townhome.

An Arlington man died Sunday after a flash fire ignited while he was working on his pickup at home. The 28-year-old removed the truck's gas tank Sunday morning in his closed garage in the 400 block of Overhill Drive, near East Abram Street, officials said.

Residents displaced by a giant wildfire near Boulder, Colorado, began returning home Sunday while, 40 miles to the north, another fire forced evacuations west of Loveland.

A huge explosion apparently fueled by a ruptured gas line tore through a San Francisco suburb Thursday night, destroying about 20 homes and critically injuring a number of people.

Deaths in Moscow have doubled and are now averaging 700 people a day amid a sweltering heat wave and poisonous smog from wildfires, a top Russian health official said Monday.

As acres burn and the damage mounts from a nationwide eruption of wildfires, the government is being tested at all levels and, quite often, found wanting.

A large cargo-type plane crashed in Alaska Sunday and burst into a deadly fireball that sparked a forest fire at Denali National Park, officials said.