As depicted in a 1991 Hollywood thriller, a backdraft is a serious matter if a fire ever breaks out inside a building. Fire needs oxygen to burn and actually sucks air toward it, creating a windstorm that helps it spread. This phenomenon is also familiar to firefighters combatting wildfires.

Parts of the rebuild will restore tightly packed businesses made mostly of wood, but architects are building in modern fire prevention techniques to address safety concerns.

New York City officials cited an equipment failure as the inciting incident in a chain of events that sent a tower crane's boom crashing to a city street in July 2023.

Over 140 people are dead and thousands displaced after a blaze ripped through a Hong Kong apartment complex on Wednesday.

A massive fire in Hong Kong's Tai Po district has claimed 14 lives and injured many more. Discover the latest updates.

Homeowners at the complex destroyed in one of Hong Kong's deadliest fires were incorrectly told the contractor that authorities blame for the blaze had a clean safety record, documents viewed by Reuters show.

The current station on Water Street was built 72 years ago and isn't keeping up with safety standards, Fire Chief Jeffrey Dias said.

The 161-year-old landmark in Escanaba burned for hours on December 5, displacing residents and employees with no injuries reported.

The nightclub fire that killed 25 people in North Goa has exposed serious violations of fire and construction safety norms. The Chief Minister confirmed congested exits, lack of ventilation, and failure to follow fire safety regulations,