240,000 Minivan Radios May Be Succeptible To Fires
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DETROIT -- Chrysler is recalling 240,000 minivans because their radios may short-circuit and cause a fire. Affected are Dodge Caravan and Chrysler Town and Country minivans from the 2001 and 2002 model years.
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General Motors is recalling more than 717,000 minivans because of problems with the power sliding door. The company and federal government officials say passengers can hurt wrists or arms by holding the interior
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An effort to create a nationwide wireless network for firefighters, police and other emergency responders has hit a stumbling block as the Federal Communications Commission's auction for airwaves dedicated for public-safety use has attracted paltry interest from bidders.
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Doctors today warned that using a portable music player such as an iPod outdoors when lightning threatens can be dangerous.
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The reason for the fire was not immediately known but Film City sources say it could be due to a short circuit.
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General Motors Corp., the world&#39;s largest automaker, will recall 717,302 minivans in the US because a power sliding door may injure passengers.
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Ford Motor Co. said on Thursday it was  recalling about 792,000 pickup trucks and sport utility  vehicles because of a fire risk.
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The Unitary Products Group of the York International Corp. of York, Pa., recalled about 226,000 gas furnaces Monday because of a potential fire hazard.
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The grants would help state and local public safety agencies buy sophisticated radios and technology for communications during disasters.
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City ladder trucks should never roll without at least four firefighters onboard and protective gear should be updated, a panel recommended Wednesday in response to a furniture store inferno that killed nine firefighters.
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Certain adapters may pose a risk of fire or electrical shock.
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Firefighters, volunteers and aircraft tackle forest blazes that have caused widespread death and destruction.
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Auto-industry inventory numbers do not look terrible, but what if there is a storm coming?
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By Anna M. Tinsley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 8--Safety signs. Fire extinguishers. Better inventories of hazardous chemicals.
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It could best be described as compact, but how many other potential homes are impervious to machine gun fire?
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By Erika Ray, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Dec. 10--When flames erupted from a barn stocked with bales of straw and hay east of Findlay in October, the Vanlue Volunteer Fire Department was notified of the emergency.   Six firefighters responded out of the 24 on its roster.
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By STEVE HARTSOE  RALEIGH, N.C. - Oxygen generators similar to those blamed for the 1996 ValuJet crash likely caused the rapid spread of a chemical fire that forced the evacuation of thousands last year, a federal agency said Wednesday.  The U.S.