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Top art historian publishes report on fire, says not only could blaze been avoided, but other historic buildings remain vulnerable.

Iraqi Christian leaders on Monday demanded an international investigation into a fire that killed 113 people at a wedding in a predominantly Christian town last week.

A huge fireball was witnessed as an explosion erupted on Monday evening at a power plant near Oxford, England.

A fire broke out in a nightclub in the southeastern Spanish city of Murcia on Sunday, killing 13 people and injuring several others.

A man in Seminole, Florida, is being praised for rescuing a driver from his burning vehicle after a serious crash early Sunday.

A brave woman pulled a paralyzed man out of a vehicle right before it was engulfed in flames in a Dallas, Texas, neighborhood.

Two adults and two children were found dead following a house fire Saturday in Seattle that came on the heels of reports of a shooting . 

Authorities ordered an entire community to evacuate Friday as a wildfire burned in Washington state, leaving devastation in its wake.

A cargo ship packed with nearly 3,000 cars was still ablaze Thursday close to a world-renowned bird habitat off the Dutch coast.

At least six people were injured in Manhattan after the top of a burning crane collapsed into the street below.

A brush fire on Interstate 5 in Seattle, Washington, ignited early Friday reportedly at an encampment before burning up trees in its wake.

Another humongous plume of smoke from Canadian wildfires hit numerous American cities on the East Coast Monday as the fires continue burning.

A French fireman recently burned up an athletic track to break two records as crowds cheered him on in Haubourdin, France.

A fire that broke out in a Milan nursing home early Friday killed six of the residents and injured about 80 others, Italian firefighters said.

Officials are mourning the loss of two firefighters who died while battling a blaze on a cargo ship containing thousands of vehicles at a New Jersey port on Wednesday night.

The flagship location of Tiffany & Company caught on fire Thursday in New York City after it underwent expensive refurbishment.

Police and neighbors teamed up on June 15 to rescue a driver from extreme danger in Fairfax County, Virginia.

A homosexual man who claimed to be the target of an anti-gay hate crime in San Diego was caught on video beating a pregnant woman, according to police.

The College Republicans student group at Northwestern University scored a free speech win by defeating a funding freeze that was implemented by the school’s student government after the conservative group hosted author and Critical Race Theory (CRT) opponent James Lindsay.

A section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, collapsed when tanker truck went up in flames on Sunday, and officials warned drivers to stay clear of the area.

A fire at a refugee shelter in eastern Germany killed one person and injured 10 others early Sunday, according to local police.

A woman has been arrested after two young children were left in a car that caught fire while she was allegedly shoplifting in Oviedo, Florida, on May 26.

A man has been accused of tossing gasoline on another man then lighting him on fire Sunday outside a gas station in Tampa, Florida.

A top Chinese government propagandist, former Global Times editor Hu Xijin, lamented the censorship of information related to a deadly fire at a Beijing hospital this week – then rapidly deleted his social media post and replaced it with an innocuous post calling for police to investigate the incident.

The former home of a man serving a life sentence for killing and eating an acquaintance burned down early Monday, police said.

Police warned people in Hamburg, Germany, to close their windows on Sunday after a large fire sent chemical-laden smoke over the city.

Three people were rescued by an unnamed good Samaritan after a fire broke out on a sailboat in Alabama on Sunday afternoon.

A 50-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman died while a girl was hurt during a hot air balloon ride Saturday near a historic site outside Mexico City.

A train hauling ethanol and corn syrup derailed and went up in flames near Raymond, Minnesota, on Thursday.

An Indiana man who worked as a pizza delivery driver has been awarded a Carnegie Medal for rushing into a burning home to save five children inside.

A Brooklyn man became a hero on Friday afternoon as three children were trapped in a burning building.

A man identified as Mohammed Abbkr has appeared in court on attempted murder charges for setting men on fire outside mosques in London and Birmingham.

Five people — the youngest of whom was eight — were killed in a Scarsdale, New York, car crash while traveling to Connecticut on Sunday.

One in four college faculty members says they are very or extremely likely to self-censor in academic publications, and over one in three do so during interviews or lectures, according to a survey sponsored by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). This means that self-censorship among college faculty is far more prevalent than it was during the McCarthy era.

A couple in Southeast Portland, Oregon, said Tuesday that a fire originating from an abandoned home next door, occupied by squatters, nearly spread to their property.

A middle school teacher saved a man who uses a wheelchair from a vehicle just before it was engulfed in flames in Manchester, Connecticut.