Storm Takes Another Life: Candle Suspected in Fatal Spanaway Fire
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By Adam Lynn, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Dec. 17--A Spanaway man whose home was without power died Saturday when a candle he was using for light apparently ignited a fire, authorities said.
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An investigation is due to begin to discover the cause of a house fire which critically injured four teenage girls
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The toll of the devastating midweek fire in the Bronx continued rising into the weekend as a 6-year-old girl died late Friday from the smoke she had inhaled, the New York City medical examinerâs office said yesterday.
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1st Ld-Writethru: Beijing choked by smoke from burning stalks    BEIJING, June 13 (Xinhua) -- A southerly wind carrying smoke from burning stalks cast a pale over the capital on Tuesday and Wednesday, the environment watchdog said.
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OREM, Utah - An unlikely source is to blame for about $12,000 in fire damage to a home. Police speculate Landon Nielsen's pet boa constrictor wrapped itself around a heat lamp inside the cage and pulled the lamp down, which set the cage ablaze.
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A candle in an apartment without electricity was believed to have caused one of the city's deadliest and most heartbreaking fires in years, a blaze Sunday that killed six children ages 3 to 14, some of whom screamed "we're burning" as neighbors watched helplessly.
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A fire investigation continues into the flat blaze in which two young boys died in a village on Anglesey.
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By John Nickerson, The Stamford Advocate, Conn.  Jun. 26--NORWALK -- The Friday evening blaze on Chimon Island that destroyed an abandoned house and a shed possibly used by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees was set, a fire official said yesterday.
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By Papasian, Melanie H  A new tree-ring study links rising sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean to the last five centuries of episodic fire outbreaks in the western United States.
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A pre-dawn fire burned a home where windows were covered with plywood storm shutters, turning the house into a "convection oven" and killing four children and an adult Thursday, officials said.
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By Paul James  A fire that ravaged an historic school building has been confirmed by detectives as an arson attack.
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In the wake of a Charleston, S.C., blaze that claimed nine lives, a community struggles to make sense of its loss.
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By The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Sep. 15--It is tempting to hurl rhetorical firebombs at a political system that fails to protect homeowners from fireworks damage just because they live in unincorporated areas. And to scorch the S.C.
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Investigators found a gasoline can at the scene of an apartment building fire that killed four people &#151; including two children &#151; and critically injured two others.
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A fire gutted a house in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, early Sunday, killing at least seven people. Some of the victims are believed to be college students, Mayor Debbie Smith said.
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A fire at a flat in which a woman, 33, died in Downpatrick is being treated as suspicious.
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A fire killed six people, including four children, in a single-family home early Wednesday, officials said, and authorities arrested an 18-year-old man in the blaze hours later.