Report: At least 10 die in Austria fire
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At least 10 people died Friday in a fire at a home for the elderly in western Austria, according to a news agency report.
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A fire at a mental health hospital in Siberia killed eight people a day after a fire at a Moscow drug treatment facility killed 45 women. Moscow fire officials said the staff at the rehabilitation facility did not call the fire department fast enough and did not do enough to evacuate patients. The officials said windows and a fire exit were blocked by metal grills, and another exit was hidden by smoke.
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A fire that hit a historic German library earlier this month destroyed twice as many books as previously thought, with some 50,000 works suffering irreparable fire damage, officials said Tuesday.
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AT LEAST 20 people had died in a fire which engulfed a hostel in a remote Siberian town, news agencies reported today. Rescuers have found 20 bodies in the charred remains of the hostel in Kyzyl, ITAR-TASS reported.
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Gretzenbach, Switzerland - Seven Swiss firefighters were killed in the collapse of a parking garage ceiling in a fire in northern Switzerland, officials said on Sunday.
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Investigators expect to rule out arson as the cause of a fire that killed 10 people at a group home for the elderly and mentally ill, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
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A fire at a hotel in the southern Chilean town of Punta Arenas kills 10 foreign tourists, officials say.
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Nine US firefighters die in a blaze in a furniture warehouse in Charleston, South Carolina, officials say.
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Ten people were killed and at least 19 were injured today in a fire at an assisted living facility for senior citizens and the disabled in Missouri, state officials said.
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CHARLESTON, South Carolina  - Nine firefighters died battling a blaze that raced through a furniture store and warehouse in Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday night, triggering a rolling ball of smoke and flames that destroyed the roof and pelted onlookers with hot ash.
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Buenos Aires: At least 153 people died and hundreds were injured in a fire at a Buenos Aires discotheque, Argentine Interior Minister Anibal Fernandez said today.
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Forest fires ravaged swathes of southern Europe Friday with a multitude of blazes killing at least 15 people in Greece, while an 80-year-old man died in Sicily and hundreds were evacuated from their homes.
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A German tourist was killed and dozens of people were hospitalized with breathing problems and burns Tuesday as a fire raged in northern Greece, forcing an overnight evacuation of hotels and holiday homes, authorities said.
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A fire at a historical library in Germany destroyed many more rare books than previously thought.
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An explosion in an apartment building in eastern France killed at least 10 people and injured 14 more, French TFl television reported Monday.
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At least 10 people were killed in a fire early Monday at a state-run group home for the mentally disabled in southwest Missouri, the state fire marshal said.
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A house fire killed several people early Saturday in southwestern Pennsylvania, police reported.