The scope of Britain’s fire-safety crisis broadened Saturday as London officials scrambled to evacuate four public housing towers due to concerns about fire doors and insulation around gas pipes. Hundreds of residents hastily packed their bags, with many angry and …
The owner of a Portland, Maine, apartment building where six people died in a fire has one week to clean up fire safety issues at another building he owns in the same neighborhood. City officials inspected Gregory Nisbet’s Dartmouth Street …
Scientists with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are using a computer model to re-create the conditions of an apartment fire that killed six people in Portland, Maine, in November. The Portland Press Herald reports that the …
A Massachusetts apartment building fire that killed seven people was an accident caused by an electrical failure that began in a concealed space between two floors, authorities said Tuesday. State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said the pre-dawn fire started and …