Amy Graff SFGate, San Francisco (TNS) May 9—Five people were injured early Tuesday morning when flames engulfed a portion of a high-rise in San Francisco's Sunset District near Mount Sutro, the SF Fire Department said. The blaze was caused by a lithium-ion battery for...
Casino Fire Injures Several at Site of Deadliest Fire in Las Vegas (NV) History
Mark Davis – Las Vegas Review-Journal Several people were injured after a fire broke out at a Strip casino Friday night. The fire was reported at 8:50 p.m. at the Horseshoe Casino at 3645 S. Las Vegas Blvd., the Clark County Fire Department said. The second-alarm fire...
Emails Depict ‘Dire Situation’ of Danger at St. Louis (MO) Railway Exchange Building
Steph Kukuljan - St. Louis Post-Dispatch Mar. 28—ST. LOUIS — Copper thieves cruised downtown St. Louis' underground tunnels to gain access into the Railway Exchange Building. Others lived in the ceilings between floors of the property's 21 stories. Security officers...
Hong Kong 42-Story Skyscraper Engulfed In Flames
Hong Kong, China: The fire broke out after midnight in Tsim Sha Tsui at the site of an under-construction skyscraper in one of the city's shopping districts. Embers and burning debris rained down on the streets below as firefighters attempted to control the fire. The...
London Fire Brigade Tackles Seventh Floor Apartment Fire
Eighty London Fire Brigade firefighters and 12 apparatus tackled an apartment fire on Barking Road in Canning Town Friday morning. Three apartments in the residential block were damaged by the residential fire, which started on the seventh floor at about 9...
Chicago High-Rise Fire Kills One, Injures Eight
Deanese Williams-Harris, Adriana Pérez - Chicago Tribune One person is dead and several victims were injured Wednesday in an extra-alarm fire at a high-rise building in the Kenwood neighborhood that burned through several floors of the building and sent debris...
Fire at Aiea (HI) High-Rise Kills 77-Year-Old Resident; No Sprinklers in Pre-1975 Condo Tower
Rosemarie Bernardo - The Honolulu Star-Advertiser Jan. 21—A 77-year-old man and two dogs were killed in a fire that broke out Friday morning at a residential high-rise in Aiea. A 77-year-old man and two dogs were killed in a fire that broke out Friday morning at a...
Grenfell Firefighters Facing Elevated Cancer Rates
Firefighters who battled the Grenfell high-rise fire in 2017 are being diagnosed with cancer at an alarming rate. Britain's Daily Mirror reports that roughly a dozen firefighters, some as young as 40, have been diagnosed with cancers such as leukemia and colon...
Glenside (PA) Fire Department Gives a Look Inside its High-Rise Apartment Pack
Glenside Lieutenant Kevin Graham and crew give an overview of the apartment pack it uses at high-rise fires. It includes the appliances in the 'bag of tricks,' how to hook up to the interior standpipe connection, how to pack the lines, and how a 4-person engine...
More Than 50 Firefighters Respond to Large Fire in Downtown Syracuse (NY) High-Rise
Rylee Kirk- syracuse.com Syracuse, N.Y. — A large fire Saturday night forced the evacuation of Icon Tower, a high-rise of apartments, offices and retail space in downtown Syracuse. At 7:14 p.m. someone called 911 to report smoke in the building at 344 S. Warren St.,...
One Killed, Three Hurt in Pittsburgh (PA) High-Rise Apartment Building Fire
Brian C. Rittmeyer The Tribune-Review, Greensburg Dec. 12—One person was killed, another was critically injured and two emergency responders were hurt in a fire in a Downtown Pittsburgh apartment building Sunday night. According to Pittsburgh Public Safety, police,...
Fire Safety Research Institute Releases ‘Plan Your Escape: High-Rise Apartment Fire’ Video
The Fire Safety Research Institute released a new video as part of our Fire Prevention Week: Fire Moves Fast. Plan Ahead to Save Lives series. The “Plan Your Escape: High-Rise Apartment Fire” video combines our real research footage with 3D modeling to show fire...