MINNEAPOLIS — Fire officials said Monday they could not determine the exact cause of a high-rise apartment fire that killed five people last week in Minneapolis and that a handful of factors may have contributed to igniting the blaze. The …
A construction crane, apparently toppled by high winds, collapsed onto an apartment house in Dallas on Sunday and sliced through five floors of the building, killing at least one person and injuring six others, a city fire and rescue spokesman …
A civil lawsuit has been filed against the owner and landlord of a Philadelphia apartment building where a fire escape balcony collapsed, killing one man and seriously injuring two women. The suit was filed Monday by the families of 22-year-old …
A little over a year after a fast-moving fire burned most of a huge apartment complex in the St. Louis, Mo., Central West End, the complex is about to reopen. The massive fire on July 17, 2012, damaged more than …
The company that manages a southwest Missouri apartment building where five people died in a Thanksgiving Day fire had disabled the manual fire alarms in the building about 10 years ago. Rick Schroeder, president of Bell Management, of Joplin, which …
More than 50 people were injured early Sunday when the floor collapsed during a party at a northwest Florida apartment building, authorities said. No one died when the floor collapsed just after 1:20 a.m. in the clubhouse at the Seminole …
A 19-year-old Pennsylvania State University student is hospitalized in critical condition after falling 39 feet out of a window of an apartment building. Authorities said the young woman fell from the window of a fifth-floor apartment overnight Saturday at the …
An early morning fire in a Chicago high-rise has killed a woman who got stuck in an elevator and injured nine others, including two firefighters. Firefighters were called to the 21-story building about 2 a.m. Sunday. Fire Department Chief Joe …
Waterbury fire officials say a gas leak that forced the evacuation of an apartment building was caused by scrap metal thieves who accidentally cut through a live gas line. The Republican-American of Waterbury reports the pipe was cut inside a …
About 50 firefighters battled a blaze at an apartment building in downtown Madison, Wisconsin Thursday. The fire at the Capitol Hill Apartments still burned more than five hours after it began at 5 a.m. Plumes of black smoke and flames …