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Candles arranged on the floor for a voodoo ceremony caused a five-alarm fire that ripped through a Brooklyn apartment building, killing a woman and injuring 20 firefighters, the FDNY says.

A fire raced through an orphanage for disabled children in western Estonia on Sunday, killing 10 of them, a rescue service spokesman said.

Three southern Indiana children and a mother found dead inside their partially burned house had all been shot in the head, police said Saturday, with an internet rant tied to the woman drawing investigators' attention.

Two Chicago firefighters were killed and 14 others injured battling a blaze when the roof of an abandoned building collapsed, an official says.

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

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.

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.

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....

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