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A gas leak at a chemical factory owned by a South Korean company in southern India has left at least 11 people dead and about 1,000 struggling to breathe

Philadelphia firefighters identified the source of a mysterious odor smelled by residents throughout the city on Thursday.

The major gas leak that caused evacuations in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Friday was started when city contractors checking water valves “inadvertently closed a gas valve” officials said Friday evening. The leak caused hundreds of people to be evacuated from their homes and two schools early in the morning, just over one year after the area was rocked by gas explosions...

A gas explosion was responsible for the likely destruction of a Howard County office building on Sunday morning, fire and EMS officials say.

A brown substance could be seen spewing into the air from an underground gas main leak in South Jersey Tuesday.

Paris’ deadliest fire in over a decade claimed 10 lives, sending fleeing residents to the roof to escape the flames that engulfed their apartment building before dawn Tuesday. A 40-year-old female resident, said to have a history of psychiatric problems, was detained near the eight-story building in the quiet neighborhood as police opened an investigation into voluntary arson resulting in...

The death toll in a massive fire at an illegally tapped pipeline in Mexico has risen to 109 after 10 more injured people died at hospitals. Mexico’s Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer said Friday that the latest victims who were severely burned died between Wednesday and early Friday. He said hospitals continue to treat about 40 injured victims. The victims were...

A fireball erupted at the site of a fuel pipeline leak after it appeared to be ruptured by thieves.

French interior minister says 2 firefighters were killed and at least 30 injured in a blast at a bakery in Paris that was reportedly caused by a gas leak. Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said “at this stage we can say it seems from an accidental origin, this would be a gas leak.” He said that Paris firefighters were already at...

The death toll from the collapse of a Russian apartment building has risen to 37 after more bodies were discovered by crews searching the huge pile of concrete rubble. State news agency Tass cited an emergencies ministry official on Thursday as saying four people who lived in the collapsed section of the building in Magnitogorsk remain unaccounted for. The collapse...

Search crews in Russia pulled more bodies Wednesday from a huge pile of rubble where part of an apartment building collapsed, bringing the known death toll to 33 and the number of missing residents down to eight as the grim recovery work continued for a third night. A 3-year-old girl was among the latest victims of the collapse in the...

A preliminary investigation has found that a gasket failure caused a chemical gas leak that forced the temporary closure of a heavily used bridge connecting Delaware and New Jersey on one of the busiest travel days of the year.

A leak of a flammable chemical from a plant next to the Delaware Memorial Bridge forced a shut down of the dual-span suspension bridge on Sunday creating a traffic nightmare during the travel rush home from the Thanksgiving holiday.

Investigators on the scene of the house explosion from Sunday night believe that the Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, blast was caused by a gas leak. The homeowners were on the property at the time, but no one was injured during the explosion.

A house in Gladwyne, Montgomery County, exploded Sunday night while it was undergoing renovations. People from around the area claim to have heard and felt the impact of the explosion.

Thirteen people are dead following a powerful overnight storm that swept through Santa Barbara County and unleashed flooding and mudslides that carried boulders and debris through neighborhoods.

Saber Grills has recalled certain models of gas grills and regulators that have burned users after fire shot out from the burner knobs.

A gas leak caused the evacuation of a Main Line Whole Foods Market Sunday.

Two people, including a school staff member and janitor, were found dead following a natural gas explosion Wednesday at a college prep school in Minneapolis, authorities said.