A major heatwave across Australia's southeast stoked bushfires, forced hundreds of residents in rural towns to evacuate and brought record-breaking temperatures, with Melbourne recording its hottest ...

In a bushfire-prone area in outer Melbourne, a group of students is taking part in a two-way learning exchange to improve bushfire safety.

A malfunction in a chemical reactor at the Polynt Composites plant triggered an emergency evacuation in Forest Park on Thursday morning. The fire, which broke out on the third floor of the facility at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DECATUR, Mich. (WOOD) — An evacuation order that displaced residents due to a grain fire in Decatur was lifted late Saturday ...

DECATUR, Mich. (WOOD) — An evacuation order that displaced residents due to a grain fire in Decatur was lifted late Saturday afternoon. According to the Van Buren County Sheriff’s Office, a call for ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Pre-evacuation orders have been issued for the area near the Deer Creek Fire, according to a post on X from Colorado Emergency Management. The orders are for a one-mile radius of the ...

MINDEN — An evacuation order triggered by a fire on a tractor trailer hauling compressed natural gas on the state Thruway near Mindenville on Tuesday morning was lifted when the danger was cleared ...

MIDDLETON — A transformer at the county jail exploded outside an inmate housing unit, causing a fire that forced the evacuation of 407 inmates around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The incident occurred outside ...

The cost of fires caused by lithium-ion batteries is running at nearly three times those of normal house fires, a top insurer ...

DENVER — Crews are still working to put out what remains from a five-alarm fire that sparked at a Denver apartment building construction site Friday night, prompting evacuations. The Denver Fire ...

ABINGDON, Ill. — Fifty-three residents evacuated from Blue Bell Towers after fire broke out in a second-floor apartment and sent heavy smoke throughout the six-story building. A Knox County Sheriff’s ...

MEDICAL LAKE, Wash. — A trailer was evacuated after a fire fully engulfed the structure Friday near West White Road in Medical Lake. Spokane County Fire Districts 3 and 10 responded to the blaze. The ...