LAS VEGAS — The owner of a downtown Las Vegas apartment building where six people died in the deadliest residential fire in city history has been hit with another lawsuit seeking damages. This time, several fire alarm manufacturers, sellers and …
The father of a 16-year-old Ohio boy who died despite calling 911 while trapped in a minivan asked authorities Monday why responding officers didn’t get out of their cruiser to search, and whether exact GPS coordinates existed for his son’s …
Fire officials say a residential construction worker was killed after being crushed and trapped under a patio roof that suddenly collapsed. Salt Lake City Fire Department spokesman Scott Freitag says the accident happened Wednesday morning at a Salt Lake City, …
Firefighters have pulled three workers out of the rubble of a New York City construction collapse. The Fire Department of New York says five people were injured in the collapse at the five-story building in Brooklyn. One person is in …
A young boy was critically injured Wednesday at the Louisiana State Fair after he wound up trapped under a ride in the fair’s children’s section. The accident happened shortly before noon at a ride where cars go in a circle. …
An ultra-light plane has crashed into a Ferris wheel at a rural festival in Australia, trapping four people in the tangled wreckage for hours. There were no serious injuries. New South Wales Rural Fire Service spokesman Ben Shepherd says the …
Thousands of public pools in cities and towns nationwide will be taking a fresh look at their safety systems after federal regulators changed course Wednesday on measures required to keep swimmers, especially children, from getting trapped in pool drains. The …
Crews have rescued a construction worker whose excavator tipped over and pinned him inside the machine at a New Hampshire construction site. Wolfeboro Fire Chief Butch Morrill says the man was trapped inside the cab and the excavator was on …
Howard County authorities rescued a woman trapped in her car after it landed in her pool. Relatives called authorities Saturday to check on the woman in her 70s after they didn’t hear from her Friday night. Rescuers found the woman …
A buildup of volatile gas hampered rescue efforts in one Chinese coal mine and water continued to pour into another as emergency crews raced to reach 42 miners and others trapped Sunday for a second day, officials and state media …