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An F-16 fighter jet crashed Thursday into a warehouse just outside March Air Reserve Base in California, sending a dozen people to hospitals for evaluation after they were exposed to debris, authorities said.

Utah authorities say a dog bit off the hand of a 4-year-old boy after he stuck his arm through a fence to try to play with the animal. Fire department officials in the city of Layton say the child was airlifted Sunday to a Salt Lake City hospital and was in serious but stable condition. Battalion Chief Jason Cook says...

Fire officials in Delaware say a man they pulled from a sewer system told rescuers he’d spent at least a day stuck underground.

An entire row of seats fell off the “Fire Ball” ride at the Ohio State Fair on Wednesday July 26, 2017. Three of the injured were immediately hospitalized after the incident with two of them released Thursday morning.

A father and son survived after their house collapsed in the Point Breeze section of Philadelphia.

A building in South Philadelphia collapsed Monday night following a possible gas explosion. SkyForce10 was over the scene.

A father and son survived when their Point Breeze home collapsed following a possible explosion that impacted police in a neighboring station.

Officials at the Wilmington Fire Department are pushing for a tweak in state law so that its firefighters can carry an opioid overdose drug.

A swinging and spinning amusement park ride called the Fire Ball broke apart on the opening day of the Ohio State Fair on Wednesday, hurling people through the air, killing at least one and injuring seven others. Three of the injured were hospitalized Wednesday night, authorities said at a news conference. Two of them were treated and released, but the...

A swinging and spinning amusement park ride called the Fire Ball broke apart on the opening day of the Ohio State Fair on Wednesday, hurling people through the air, killing at least one and injuring seven others. Three of the injured were hospitalized Wednesday night, authorities said at a news conference. Two of them were treated and released, but the...

Records show an Oakland fire captain recommended in January that a building that burned and killed four people this week should be shuttered immediately due to life-threatening hazards.

Records show an Oakland fire captain recommended in January that a building that burned and killed four people this week should be shuttered immediately due to life-threatening hazards.

Thirty-three people were confirmed dead Sunday after a horrific Oakland warehouse blaze that has since been deemed one of the country’s deadliest structure fires, sheriff’s officials said.

At least nine people were killed and 25 others unaccounted for after a massive blaze ripped through a warehouse party in Oakland late Friday, but officials are preparing for the death toll to rise.

Sergey Tsipenyuk peered at the graying, frail man lying on a stretcher in front of him, bleeding from his face. “What month are we in?” Tsipenyuk asked, his hands deftly working to prepare an IV in the man’s arm as Tsipenyuk’s partner, Chris Santillo, hooked him up to a heart monitor.

Drones forced the landing of planes deployed to fight the so-called North Fire that burned cars and homes along the 15 Freeway Friday, delaying response to the frightening blaze, officials said.

Two Philly fire department employees allegedly connected to a sex scandal waived a department hearing on the accusations against them and instead chose to face their punishment.

A Philadelphia firefighter was heading to a fire early Saturday morning when his car collided with another vehicle only a few blocks from the blaze.

An emergency official says fumes sickened more than a dozen people aboard a bus transporting a cheerleading squad through Virginia.