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As the state of California set a record this year with two million acres burned, San Francisco Fire Department’s Pablo Siguenza is speaking to the preparedness of the state fire departments and offers message of safety and awareness for residents in helping prevent future wildfires.

When fierce winds and storms bring down power lines, Chief Robert Campbell said that the top concern for the Putnam Fire Department is safety. “Power lines can kill anyone in a second and a lot of people are unaware of the danger,” said Campbell. His crews go to a scene to make sure no one approaches the downed line and…

The chief of the Putnam Volunteer Fire Department wants to work with Eversource to keep his firefighters from having to babysit live wires that come down.

An outbreak of wildfires outside Los Angeles on Wednesday threatened thousands of structures, narrowly bypassing the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, while Northern California also continues battling resource-straining blazes. With California tinder dry and fires burning in both the north and south, the state was at the mercy of gusty winds, on high alert for any new flames that could run...

Firefighters are battling the Easy Fire in Simi Valley, California. The blaze began early Wednesday morning.

Authorities in Seattle say gunfire at a light-rail station has killed one person and wounded two others, and that police are searching for suspects. The Seattle Times reports that the shooting happened on the northbound tunnel platform of the Westlake station at about 9:20 p.m. Friday. The newspaper quotes a witness as saying a shooter wearing a dark hoodie yelled,...

Fire officials are investigating after a boat fire on Candlewood Lake in Brookfield early Friday morning.

Emergency crews have recovered a mannequin torso from the Connecticut River in Suffield after a report of a body in the area Tuesday.

In the past month or so, there have been eight deadly fires in Connecticut, killing a total of 11 people.

People in the Killingly area are being warned to avoid the smoke downwind caused by a vacant mill fire after asbestos was identified in roofing materials, police said.

A woman has died after a house fire in Windham on Monday morning.

Hundreds of people lined the streets of Hartford on Saturday for the 49th Annual Greater Hartford St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The parade in Hartford is a decades-old tradition celebrating Irish culture.

A fire in Bangladesh that killed at least 67 people in the oldest part of the capital shows the lapses in public safety that still plague the South Asian country despite its rapid economic growth. While the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina touts the garment factories and gleaming office towers in Dhaka’s north side as signs of progress, illegal...

A devastating fire raced through buildings in an old part of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, and killed at dozens of people, officials and witnesses said Thursday.

Officials continue to investigate an odor of chlorine in New Haven Wednesday morning.

Crews responded to two structure fires within hours of each other in Hartford on Sunday afternoon.

Two people have been struck and killed by a scenic train in Wareham, Massachusetts, the Plymouth County district attorney says. The accident happened around 7:29 p.m. Saturday in the area of 72 Minot Avenue. The two victims, a man and a woman, were pronounced dead on scene. The train involved is a Polar Express themed train ride that begins and...

Dozens of Boston-area college students are without a home after a massive fire Saturday. Up to 70 students were displaced by the fire that ripped through a 5-story building in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood. Officials responded to 104 Hemenway Street, which is home to Northeastern University and Berklee College of Music students, just after 3:15 p.m. Saturday.

A man who was found unresponsive during a house fire in West Haven on Saturday afternoon has died.

A 14-year-old boy has become the tenth person to die in a tragic house fire on Chicago’s West Side that claimed the lives of three other teens and six young children.