Chile probes deadly weekend fires
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Inquiries begin in Chile after a fire in a historic port kills at least three people and a hotel fire leaves 10 tourists dead.
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A fast-moving arson fire killed six people in a rowhouse before dawn Saturday, four of them children, police said. Authorities concluded that the fire was set deliberately after police dogs smelled an accelerant, and have ruled the deaths homicides.
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Many locals say arsonists started the deadly fires that have swept the country in the past week.
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Investigators try to find the cause of a hotel fire that forced the evacuation of hundreds of people.
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"In the vineyards, there are first signs of 'sunburn"  A heat wave sweeping central and southeastern Europe killed at least 13 people this week, with soaring temperatures sparking forest fires, damaging crops and prompting calls to ban horse-drawn tourist carriages.In Romania, where temperatures reached 104 degrees Friday, the Health Ministry said at least nine people had died since Monday due to heat.In Austria, where highs had hovered around 95 degrees for days, the Health Ministry said three deaths Thursday were likely heat-related. Austrian media said at least five people had died from the heat, including an elderly woman who collapsed on a Vienna street Friday. Read more
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Fast-moving wildfires in southern California destroyed several homes Sunday, killed one person in San Diego County and closed the Pacific Coast Highway at Malibu. Four firefighters and four civilians were also hurt in the southeastern part of San Diego county.
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An inquest into the deaths of six tourists - two from south Wales - killed in a fire at an Australian hostel is to start.
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CHICAGO -- Three children and a teenager were killed in a late-night fire at a pastor's home while the pastor and his wife attended a church service, fire officials said yesterday. The frame house was engulfed in flames and the blaze had jumped to a neighboring house when firefighters arrived Friday night, said Deputy District Fire Chief Patrick Keehoe. An ...
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Forest fires sweeping Greece  have killed 41 people in two days and more are feared dead with  some villages still trapped by flames on Saturday in what the  government has called a national tragedy.
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A blaze in a crowded nightclub in central Buenos Aires killed at least 149 people and injured 360, city officials said on Friday. The fire might have been
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WEST LINCOLN, ONT. - Investigators continue on Wednesday to search the burned-out ruins of a farmhouse in Ontario, trying to find the cause of a blaze that killed a mother and her seven children.
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The unauthorized use of an attic as accommodation most likely caused a fire that killed 25 people in a care home for the disabled in western Latvia, firefighters said Saturday.
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Federal agents joined the search for evidence Wednesday in brush-covered Orange County hills where an arsonist is believed to have ignited one of the wildfires devastating Southern California.
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suspect may have been the latest in a spate of arson attacks against religious targets. &quot;We are assuming it was arson,&quot; police spokeswoman Judith Verbaan said of Saturday&#39;s blaze at Helden.
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The deaths of three people in a fire at a hotel in Cornwall are being treated as murder by detectives.
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Australian police have launched a hunt for arsonists who lit a fatal wildfire in Victoria, as authorities said 32 homes had been razed in the inferno that has gripped the state for a fortnight.
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Investigators began searching through the ruins of an adult care home Tuesday after a late night fire killed one resident and left four others critically injured.