A fire that started in the electrical system of a Bethesda high rise on Thursday did $800,000 worth of damage and left three floors of the building uninhabitable. About a 1,000 people and their pets were evacuated from the 400-unit Grosvenor House around 12:30 p.m.,...
Greg Moran - The San Diego Union-Tribune (MCT) On three separate occasions since May, tempered glass panels at the downtown state courthouse have shattered, forcing court officials to construct a canopy around the high-rise building to protect people on the sidewalks...
John Wayne Ferguson - Houston Chronicle Aug. 12—Residents of a Houston high-rise building won't be allowed back into apartments until inspectors confirm the building is structurally sound, city officials said on Friday. The Royalton at River Oaks, 3333 Allen Parkway,...
Boston firefighters responded to a fire in a high-rise under construction on 1 Congress Street Saturday. The four alarm fire started around noon in ductwork in the building. All construction workers escaped unharmed. A fire broke out on the 20th floor of the building...
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...
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