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An Indiana teen’s quick actions saved his next-door neighbors from a house fire that could have been worse if he did not intervene sooner.

The Boston Bruins are donating the proceeds gained from their 50/50 raffle to a fallen firefighter’s family.

Two police officers are being hailed as heroes after they pulled an unconscious woman from a burning vehicle in Farmville, Virginia.

Chinese state media published a graphic video on Monday showing a man doused in liquid and set on fire in Hong Kong, claiming — citing the Hong Kong police force — that protesters set him on fire for defending the Communist Party.

A Texas teenager ran into a burning house Monday evening to save his 11-year-old neighbor trapped inside.

A little boy is being hailed a hero after saving his family from a fire inside their home in Raven, Virginia, this week.

At least two homes in New Jersey are on fire after a plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in Colonia, fire officials said.

A policy buried in the Furman University handbook claims that students can be punished for wearing offensive Halloween costumes.

A truck transporting 38,000 pounds of frozen bagels went up in flames on an Indiana highway on Sunday, causing the beloved breakfast food to be charred beyond repair.

It took 215 New York City Fire Department (FDNY) firefighters to quell a blaze in a Bronx apartment building on Friday evening.

Third-grade students at a Tennessee elementary school surprised one of their classmates with toys after he lost them in a fire that destroyed his family’s home two weeks ago. When Daniel Hunt’s third-grade classmates at Philadelphia Elementary School in Philadelphia,

Another set of Tesla-produced residential solar panels have reportedly caught fire on a home in Louisville, Colorado.

An official at the University of Maryland told conservative activists that he would call the police and report them for “trespassing” if they did not “pack up” and leave the public university grounds. The incident was preceded by a bizarre moment in which a woman thought to be a university staff member approached the activists to argue that “freedom of speech” is a “government-given” right, rather than a God-given right.

Jones County Junior College in Ellisville, Mississippi, is facing a lawsuit after threatening students with arrest for exercising their First Amendment rights on campus, adding that the students should have been “smarter than that.”

A suspect was caught on video as he set fire to an American flag that flew from a neighbor’s porch last week in Orlando, Florida.

Dive boat owners say they should not be held financially responsible to the families of the victims who died during the California boat fire that occurred Monday. 

A Greyhound bus caught fire on I-95 in Baltimore County, Maryland, on Tuesday morning, according to reports.

A New Jersey woman allegedly torched a man’s house after he invited her over for late-night sex and fell asleep before she came to see him.

New School professor Laurie Sheck, who has been nominated for a Pulitzer prize in poetry, faced an investigation this year over her use of the “n-word” during a lesson on black author James Baldwin. She used the word during a discussion of Baldwin’s own use of the word. Ultimately the New School decided that she did not violate the college’s policy on discrimination.

In the Sunday night daycare fire that killed five Erie, Pennsylvania, children, Erie resident Shevona Overton lost four.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Dmitry Bulgakov said on Tuesday that a string of spectacular explosions at the Kamenka ammunition depot in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk region was probably the result of “human error,” but added that “investigative authorities and prosecutors will tell for sure.”

Tom Lindsay, the former Deputy Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under President George W. Bush, hit back this week against claims by Columbia University’s president about the state of free speech on American campuses.

First Coast Technical College is defending its controversial decision to suspend a student over photos she posted to Facebook of her at a gun range.

Baltimore law enforcement has launched an investigation into the cause of 11 fires that broke out in the city’s Edmondson Village neighborhood early Morning morning.

A 35-year-old man with extensive experience in roofing and construction used his skills to scale a 19-story building to rescue his mother trapped in a building during a fire.

A team of firefighters in Buffalo, New York, put aside their suits and helmets on Sunday to throw a birthday party for a six-year-old boy whose house burnt down just days before.

A fire broke out Thursday at a gas pipeline near a thermal power plant on the outskirts of Moscow, killing one person and injuring 13 others.

An eight-month-old infant died and five other children were injured in a fire at their house early Sunday while their parents were out at a nightclub, police said.

A 20-year-old uncle is suffering from second-to-third degree burns in the hospital after he ran into his burning home in Aberdeen, Washington, to save his niece.

At least 45,000 barrels of Jim Beam bourbon were destroyed in a massive warehouse fire in Kentucky on Tuesday night.

George Washington University Law School Professor John F. Banzhaf argued last week that a recent Supreme Court decision on the First Amendment could kill campus free speech codes.

MSNBC host and Democrat presidential debate moderator Rachel Maddow pressed Washington Gov. Jay Inslee about his putting climate change as his top priority if he is elected president.

Doane University suspended a librarian earlier this year over her decision to highlight the university’s history of blackface incidents.

A new bill moving forward in the Texas legislature could possibly criminalize sex jokes on campus, according to FIRE. The organization devoted to free speech on campus also expects a flood of “unmeritorious complaints” to Title IX offices at universities in the state.

A group of French Republican politicians have sounded a “state of emergency” on 75 Paris Churches, each of which face a potential Notre Dame level catastrophic event if left without urgent remedial work, a statement after the world-famous Medieval cathedral suffered a catastrophic fire in April.

The director of Brazil’s National Museum flew to Europe on Tuesday for a two-week fundraising trip aimed at restoring the building after it was destroyed by a devastating fire last September.