The Jersey City Fire Department is expanding, adding a new company specifically set up to respond to high-rise fires. The high-rise unit will respond to all high-rise fires. It will respond to all other working fires as a rapid intervention crew. The new...
David Zahniser - Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles City Council cleared the way on Wednesday for a cluster of new high-rises that would bring more than 700 homes to the edge of Echo Park and Chinatown, setting the stage for the first skyscraper to go up in that part...
Alvin Buyinza - masslive.com On Friday, a five-alarm fire broke out on the 20th floor of a 43-story high rise under construction at One Congress Street, according to Boston Fire Department spokesperson Sharon Galloway. The fire started on the 20th floor and went up...
Charlie McKenna and Anthony Cammalleri Jun. 22—REVERE — Firefighters knocked down a blaze at 370 Ocean Ave. in Revere Tuesday that prompted the evacuation of several floors of a high-rise apartment building in the city. State Police troopers from the Revere barracks...
London — Residents were evacuated from a high-rise block in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, after firefighters battled a blaze on Tuesday morning. London Fire Brigade said eight fire engines and around 60 firefighters attended the scene in Queensdale Crescent. London...
Josh Cain - The Press-Enterprise A three-alarm fire engulfed the fourth floor of the San Bernardino County Code Enforcement building on 3rd Street in San Bernardino on Sunday morning. Firefighters were summoned by an alarm triggered at 172 W. 3rd Street at about 9:30...
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The names of the 72 people who died in a London high-rise tower blaze were read out Tuesday at a memorial service to mark five years since the tragedy, the worst domestic fire on British soil since World War II. Former...
Sam Whiting - San Francisco Chronicle Several hundred residents of a San Francisco luxury apartment tower spent the weekend in two downtown hotels — and it wasn't a group staycation. Instead, the tenants of 33 Tehama St. were evacuated Friday when a water pipe broke...
Garrett Cabeza - The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. May 19—For the second time in two months, Spokane firefighters extinguished a fire on the ninth floor of the Park Tower apartments in downtown Spokane. Two people were treated in the lobby of the 20-story tower...
By Chief Gordon Routley, Chief Gary English, and Captain Mike Gagliano The expanding need for public transportation in large- and medium-sized cities is driving the development of mass transit systems that typically include underground tunnels. Emergencies in...
Firefighters were called to a fire that broke out Monday in an apartment building in Glasgow. The fire at Fernbank Street in Springburn broke out just after 11 a.m. on Monday. Pictures taken of the building show thick smoke billowing out from the top of the building....
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