Couple escapes flat blaze
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A couple have narrowly escaped injury after a fire in a block of flats in north Belfast, the Fire Service says.
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Emergency exits at a nightclub packed with teenagers were padlocked or wired shut when a flare ignited the foam ceiling, sparking a blaze that killed 175 people and injured more than 700 in one of Argentina's worst disasters, survivors and officials said Friday.
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Pam Morret and her husband, Lynn, missed the big eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. They sure were not going to miss this one. So they donned their leather jackets
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Firefighters are to spend a second day at the scene of a blaze at a stately home almost destroyed by fire.
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From baggy briefs to the ultimate hotpants: A British woman's underwear saved the day by doubling as an emergency fire blanket when her kitchen caught fire. John Marsey and his cousin Darren Lines were frying bread in Jenny Marsey's kitchen in Hartlepool, northeast England, on Sunday when their meal caught fire.
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An investigation is under way after a man and a woman die in a fire at a semi-detached property in Lincolnshire.
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Five people died and four more were missing Sunday in a suspected arson fire that engulfed an apartment complex and sent residents jumping from third-story windows to escape, firefighters said.
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Eight people, including six police officers, have been treated in hospital after a suspicious fire at a blcok of flats.
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Firefighters tackle a blaze at a sheltered housing development in Edinburgh and at least 20 residents will be rehoused.
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Five people escape through an upstairs window after petrol is poured through a letterbox and set alight.
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About 25 families spend the night away from their homes after two gas cylinders catch fire in Coleraine.
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Two brothers who died in a fire in an Anglesey village at the weekend were "full of life and fun", say their family.
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A couple died after the temperature in their apartment climbed to 111 degrees. Their landlord and a utility company disagreed over whether a faulty furnace was to blame.
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A number of people escape injury during a possible racist attack on a house in Belfast.
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A House office building was evacuated Tuesday after witnesses saw signs of smoke.
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A blaze at a home for the elderly in the Russian village of Yekaterinovka left 10 people dead and four hospitalized early Thursday.  The fire started in the top floor of a three-story building of the seniors boarding house, Itar-Rass reported.
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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.Comment