Corey Smedley tells why his department adopted the use of floor-below nozzles and smoke curtains for battling fires in unsprinklered high-rise residential buildings.

HONG KONG — Uncomfortable questions are being raised over who is to blame for Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in decades. As the territory mourns over the high-rise apartment fire that killed at least 156 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Temperatures settled in the single digits overnight as D.C. firefighters battled a fire at an apartment ...

Three of the Wilkes-Barre Housing Authority’s high-rise apartment buildings now have functioning fire-suppressant sprinkler systems, and work on a fourth is underway. Sprinkler system installation at ...

Hong Kong firefighters found dozens more bodies Friday in an intensive apartment-by-apartment search of a high-rise complex where a massive fire engulfed seven buildings, and authorities arrested ...

A devastating fire tore through a Hong Kong high-rise residential complex, killing dozens of people with hundreds still missing. The inferno -- the financial hub's worst in decades -- sent shock waves ...

Fire officials reported early Friday that more than 100 people were killed in the Hong Kong high-rise blaze. Crews have found more bodies in the deadly fire, but dozens are still missing. Authorities ...

SAN ANTONIO – A fire at a high-rise apartment building near downtown is believed to have been caused by a cigarette on a coffee table, according to the San Antonio Fire Department. The fire was ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — When the 19-story Legacy high-rise opened behind the Michigan Theater last August, it welcomed hundreds of University of Michigan students. It also increased the workload of the Ann ...

Firefighters battled a fire on the top two floors of a high-rise apartment in the Bronx, New York, on Saturday morning. According to an X post early Saturday morning, the New York City Fire Department ...