Fire News

Rocky Mountain News and Camera Staff Originally published 08:02 a.m., September 2, 2008 Updated 08:30 a.m., September 2, 2008 An early-morning fire has destroyed three businesses in Louisville.

By David Wilkes , Liz Hull and Luke Salkeld Last updated at 4:46 PM on 02nd September 2008 The debt-ridden tycoon Christopher Foster killed his own wife and teenage daughter before setting his house on fire and ...

A firefighting air tanker making one last run to drop retardant on a blaze in the Sierra Nevada Monday evening crashed on takeoff from an airfield just north of Reno, killing all three crew members on board.

Firefighters were able to maintain containment lines Sunday despite erratic winds.

Evacuations in the Hope Valley area have been lifted due to the reduced threat to structures from the Burnside fire.

A fire in Lawrence sent five children to the hospital Sunday. Lawrence fire officials confirm the mother of the children has been arrested and is being held in the Marion County Jail.

Prince George's County authorities are investigating a fire that they say was intentionally set at an elementary school in Bowie.

A garage behind 1125 Washington Avenue suffered heavy fire damage. 1125 Washington Avenue A garage behind an abandoned home on Evansville's South Side suffered heavy fire damage after a blaze there this ...

Firefighters rescued a baby girl from her burning home in Lauderhill early Sunday.

Nevada's governor has criticized a U.S. Forest Service decision to let a wildfire burn unchecked for two weeks, allowing it to 'get out of control.'

A lightening-caused fire that ignited Aug. 21 in northeast Nevada has grown from about 13 square miles to 76 square miles, officials said. It also has moved to within 4 miles of the small town of Jarbidge.

The blaze was 30 percent contained Sunday. No homes were threatened, and no major injuries were reported.

'The forest fire that we have today was allowed to get out of control, knowing the dangers of the fuel loading and the weather conditions _ dry, hot, windy,' Gov. Jim Gibbons told the Elko Daily Free Press.

Fire crews are battling a fast-moving wildfire that broke out Sunday afternoon south of Lake Tahoe and that has forced the evacuation of campgrounds, resorts and homes in the area.

Mother Nature lent a hand to firefighters this weekend as steady rain today put a damper on a 971-acre wildfire about seven miles northwest of Meeker in northwest Colorado.

Firefighters are trying to slow a blaze that broke out in a thickly forested region of the Sierra foothills northeast of Sacramento.

An 834-acre wildfire burning near Meeker is about 15 percent contained. The blaze seven miles northwest of Meeker is one of several started by lightning in northwest Colorado this week.

A Malaysian welder had to have a nut removed from around his penis after an attempt to lengthen it before he gets engaged next week went embarrassingly wrong.

Police are continuing to search the burnt-out home of millionaire businessman Christopher Foster following the grim discovery of two charred bodies.

Oregon State Police is investigating a fire that broke out at the Capitol. The fire was reported about 12:30 a.m. At least one resident reported the fire, Oregon State Police Capt.

The craggy gullies where Idaho cowboy Paul Nettleton runs 1,200 head of cattle are often precious minutes from reliable cell phone coverage.

That could spell disaster in this region where sudden summertime storms howl in from eastern Oregon, bringing dry lightning that can ignite fast-moving wildfires on sage- and juniper-covered hillsides. Unchecked, the flames could quickly turn this old mining town's historic wooden buildings to ashes.

This spring, Nettleton and six other Owyhee County ranchers who make their livelihoods in some of America's most remote backcountry began carrying satellite telephones provided by the federal Bureau of Land Management and the Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security.

Crews struggled Friday to contain a sprawling central Montana wildfire that has burned more than 126 square miles and repeatedly jumped fire lines intended to halt its advance.

After Georgian soldiers stormed South Ossetia and killed Vitaly Guzitayev's friend, he hid in the woods.