Fatal Incident
Prosecutors say Jonathan Rinderknecht lit a Jan. 1 fire that smoldered, reignited Jan. 7, and killed 12
An investigation into the Gabriel House fire details overdue tests, a sprinkler that didn’t activate, understaffed fire prevention units, no statewide tracking and uneven enforcement
The 1966 blaze was the deadliest fire in the history of the FDNY until the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001
232 of the 2,161 fatalities in 2023 were children
Gaven Puchinsky’s testimony supports allegations by the families of the fallen Newark FFs on the cause of the fire
The cause of the St. Paul fire remains under investigation but the home did have working smoke detectors
A Queens man ran back inside the burning house to try and rescue his mother but neither made it out
No smoke alarms were found in the debris of the Hardy County house fire
Suit claims victims’s rights were violated by unsafe conditions in public housing rowhome where 12 people died
The Wakefield neighborhood fire comes two days after a Staten Island fire claimed a 7-year-old girl
Officials said one of the seven people rescued during a house fire in St. Paul has died.
The victims in the Somers fire were ages 5, 6, 8 and 12
The driver, Michael Avery, purchased gasoline, fuel containers before crashing outside a Rochester venue, killing two pedestrians
The FDNY faced three fatal fires, two just blocks apart from each other, as the year came to a close
The explosion in Northfield Township was heard for miles and left only the basement visible
After two people died in an illegal attic apartment fire, records show the New Britain landlord had been uncooperative
Sharlene Rabang is the 100th victim of the deadly Lahaina wildfire
Westborough firefighters used air bags, cribbing to recover the worker from underneath the 53-foot-long trailer
One person died and another is expected to survive after being rescued by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel
First responders from 10 departments responded to multiple calls for a house fire in Melvile
Hermosa Beach neighborhood shocked after a domestic dispute turned deadly
New Britain firefighters faced a top-floor fire and an injured person who had jumped to escape the flames
The ATF has joined authorities in Bullhead City in the investigation of the fire that killed five children
The Bullhead fire victims’ ages range from 13 to 2
Firefighters in Orange were able to rescue a woman inside but she succumbed to her injuries
Firefighters believe a lighter was near the tree inside the Winston-Salem trailer
Birmingham Firefighter Jordan Melton was killed, and Firefighter Jamal Jones was wounded, inside Firehouse No.9
Atlanta firefighters faced three structure fires in the early morning hours
The hearings will focus, in part, on the initial actions by the ship’s crew and the response to the fire by Newark and other local land-based fire departments
The fire service must get ahead of the lithium-ion battery threat before more lives are lost due to lack of education and response training
The union for Wichita firefighters claims dispatchers did not relay information about where the victim was trapped
False reports of fires, acts of violence and hoarding plagued a home in Hebron
Three Maui County departments failed to meet deadlines for providing information from the Aug. 8 wildfires that killed 100, left 7, 500 homeless
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