In 2012, a wildfire ripped through 42 square kilometers of alpine moorland in Africa's Rwenzori Mountains, a range of ...

Johannesburg — At least 74 people died when a fire ripped through a five-story building in Johannesburg that had been overtaken by homeless people, officials said Thursday. At least 12 of those killed ...

Emergency services teams have left the scene of one of South Africa's deadliest fires at a derelict Johannesburg apartment block and pathologists on Friday faced the grisly task of identifying dozens ...

Imagine arriving at your next emergency call with little to no equipment and less than basic training. Could you arrive with no PPE and fight the fire anyway? Though it’s unimaginable in most ...

Some survivors have been detained by the police, while politicians have lashed out at the newcomers as scapegoats for intractable problems like crime, joblessness and a housing shortage. By John ...

In 2012, Fire Chief Dave Moore went on a mission to Nairobi, Kenya, with the intent of providing basic fire safety training to teachers and social workers at Missions of Hope International in the ...

JOHANNESBURG - A nighttime fire ripped through a rundown apartment building mainly occupied by homeless people and squatters in Johannesburg, forcing some to throw babies out of third-story windows in ...

An experienced firefighter, Mike Kull of Bellefonte is sharing his skills abroad and gearing up for his next trip with the nonprofit Africa Fire Mission. Kull, a volunteer firefighter with the Logan ...

FLINT, MI - Flint’s first African American Fire Chief Samuel Dixon Jr. has died at the age of 95. Flags at Flint City Hall will be lowered to half-staff in his honor after the holiday weekend, ...

In the early morning hours of Aug. 31, 77 people, including 12 children, died in a burning building in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa. Terrible images on television showed the gutted and ...

JOHANNESBURG — Search teams finished checking a derelict Johannesburg apartment building a day after one of South Africa's deadliest fires broke out there as pathologists faced the grisly task Friday ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Fire investigators are still working to figure out what caused Oakland's oldest black church to catch fire Sunday night, although Pastor Rodney Smith says he does not believe ...