NEW DELHI — The Serum Institute of India, the world’s biggest vaccine maker, said on Thursday that production of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine would not be affected by a deadly fire at its headquarters in Maharashtra state. Videos and pictures …
A wealthy stock trader’s negligence led to a deadly fire that killed a young man who was helping him build a network of tunnels for a bunker beneath a suburban Washington, D.C., home, a lawsuit alleges. The parents of 21-year-old …
The wealthy stock trader took elaborate steps to conceal the network of tunnels beneath his house in this Washington, D.C., suburb. Even the young man helping him dig them didn’t know where they were. A year ago, a deadly fire …
The owner of an apartment building where six people died in a fire faces legal action by Portland officials for safety code violations at another building he owns. Gregory Nisbet failed to bring his Dartmouth Street property up to code …
An Omaha city councilman says a boardinghouse fire that killed two people has exposed flaws in the Nebraska city’s codes. City building inspection and fire officials have been meeting to discuss possible changes in light of the Dec. 23 blaze. …
A mother who died with her 3-year-old son in a fire in in their San Francisco, Calif., public housing unit apparently had requested that her smoke detectors be fixed two weeks earlier. The San Francisco Examiner reported on Tuesday that …
A Springfield, Mo., woman is suing her former landlord over a fire that killed her three children. The Springfield News-Leader reports that Violet Watson is asking in excess of $25,000 in damages in the suit filed this month in Green …
A fire broke out at an illegal six-story plastics market in the Indian city of Kolkata early Wednesday, killing at least 19 people, police said. The blaze, which started before 4 a.m., was likely caused by a short circuit, said …
Firefighters plan to hand out free smoke detectors in the neighborhood where four children were killed in a fire at their duplex in Conyers, Ga. Rockdale County spokeswoman Tonya Parker tells The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that firefighters will go door-to-door Thursday …
Wrongful death lawsuits have been settled over a New Ulm, Minn., bed and breakfast fire that killed six people last year. A Brown County judge approved a request Monday to keep the settlement amounts and allocations confidential. The fire at …