HONG KONG (AP) — The death toll of Hong Kong’s high-rise apartment blaze rose to 159 on Wednesday, as authorities arrested six people on suspicion of deactivating some fire alarms during maintenance ...

Blackstone (BX), KKR (KKR) and Apollo Global Management (APO) have agreed to take part in a landmark Bank of England stress test aimed at gauging how the private credit market would withstand a major ...

Many windows were covered, preventing residents from seeing the fire and smoke, one survivor said. By Joy Dong Reporting from Hong Kong Lau Yu Hung said he and his wife had barely escaped in time.

A fire at an empty 10-story building brought firefighters to 300 San Mateo Boulevard around 12:30 p.m. Sunday after smoke was seen coming from the upper floors, an Albuquerque Fire Rescue news release ...

Firefighters have contained a four-alarm blaze at the Gold Bond Building Products facility in East Baltimore, city fire officials said Wednesday afternoon. Crews were called out to the 2300 block of ...

Baltimore firefighters battled a massive, 4-alarm fire in the city's Remington neighborhood Friday afternoon, prompting nearby residents to evacuate. Crews responded to the 400 block of W 23rd Street ...

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INCLUSIVE. THIS DEVICE IS CALLED A BED SHAKER, AND IT’S DESIGNED TO WAKE YOU UP IN CASE OF A FIRE BY DOING EXACTLY WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE. SHAKING YOUR BED. FIRE. WAKE UP. THIS ISN’T A GENTLE MASSAGER ...

EASTHAMPTON — Western Mass. fire officials gathered at the Easthampton Public Safety complex on Oct. 29 to draw attention to a wave of smoke alarms that are nearing the end of their 10-year useful ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WSIL) -- The Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal (OSFM) is urging residents to test, inspect, and replace smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms as daylight saving time ends ...

Most performances of Mozart’s Requiem are exactly what Headlam described: an act of imagination. They include portions of the work completed not by Mozart, who died before finishing it, but rather by ...

New plays in The Fire This Time Festival are humorous, moving, pointed, and political, and are written by an impressive group of emerging playwrights with credits and recognition spanning a Next Wave ...