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Woman races to escape locked basement as man sets home on fire, Tennessee cops say
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA trapped woman raced to escape a locked basement after a man set fire to a Tennessee home,...
How Louisville's Whiskey Row went from 'left behind' to the tourism jewel of downtown
USA TODAY via AOL· 10 months agoTwenty years ago, the future of downtown Louisville, Kentucky's Whiskey Row was hard to see. The...
Abandoned Fort Worth school catches fire for the second time in 2 days, officials say
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFor the second time in less than 24 hours, firefighters battled a blaze at an abandoned school near...
Bar owner indicted on arson and fraud charges in 2017 fire that damaged his downtown Waukesha...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWAUKESHA - Twice burned and now gone, a two-floor commercial building in downtown Waukesha became...
A historic grain mill burned down in 1927 and 5,000 onlookers watched in the pouring rain
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAs many as 5,000 people stood in pouring rain the evening of April 8, 1927, watching as a historic...
'Condemned.' Topeka's city government plans to demolish buildings on these 12 properties.
The Topeka Capital-Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAfter being damaged by least three fires — one of them fatal to a young woman — a vacant, brick...
Vigil held on 80th anniversary of deadly Cocoanut Grove fire that killed 492 people
WFXT via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn 80th anniversary vigil was held on Monday afternoon to honor the victims of the Cocoanut Grove...
Fires devastated Seattle, Ellensburg, Spokane in 1889
KIRO via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen Washington became a state in November 1889, that wasn’t the only big news story that year. In...
‘Bedridden’ woman dies when large fire rips through her home, Georgia officials say
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA woman died after she was unable to escape a fire that ripped through her Atlanta-area home,...
Block Island could have been 'the next Lahaina' during hotel fire. How downtown was saved.
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 9 months agoNEW SHOREHAM — There was a persistent beeping. Renee Reed assumed it was a cellphone. She and her...