A Michigan man was fired last month after he left his position greeting customers at the entrance to a store and rushed with a fire extinguisher to put out a car fire in the parking lot.

30 people had to be rescued from a Duck Tour boat in the river Thames on Sunday after the “amphibious bus” caught fire right outside the Houses of Parliament in London. Many of the 28 passengers had to jump into the water to escape the flames.

Inadequate radio communication was to blame for the deaths of 19 Arizona firefighters in June, according to an Arizona State Forestry Division investigation.

The daring rescue of a man trapped inside a burning apartment in Washington Heights was caught on camera by nearby residents who marveled at the superheroism of their fearless neighbor.

When firefighters arrived at an apartment fire in McMinnville, Oregon on Monday night, they found two pit bulls trapped on a second-floor balcony. The first dog managed to climb up onto the railings and balance itself before finally realizing it needed to jump. The second dog was also able to jump off the deck once a firefighter removed some railings.

This massive plume of gray-white smoke from the wildfires raging through Southern California's transverse mountain ranges is being pushed over the Pacific Ocean by the notorious Santa Ana winds. A weather satellite operated by NOAA captured this image late Thursday—you can see five of the narrow Channel Islands between Santa Barbara and San Diego County beneath the thick smoke.

Norwegian public broadcasters will be rebooting the venerable entertainment property "staring at a fire" in a 12-hour prime-time television broadcast of a burning fireplace, featuring "Norway's biggest firewood celebrity" and other experts providing advice, color commentary, and, one hopes, some play-by-play action.

Brazilian authorities have arrested three people with ties to the nightclub fire that killed at least 233 people yesterday. They are one of the club's co-owners, the chief of security and a member of the band Gurizada Fandangueira, which was performing when the fire broke out. Police are also apparently searching for Kiss nightclub's other owner as well.

One of the reasons this morning's fire at the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria was so deadly is because the front door was locked at the time the fire broke out, according to Brazilian newspaper Journal O Globo

More than 200 people, most of them college-aged, are dead following a fire at a nightclub called Kiss in Brazil.

Officials say at least 232 people died in a nightclub fire overnight in Brazil, and that number is expected to climb.

Nordic countries are known for eating some weird shit — so is it any surprise that one of the region's delicacies managed to shut down an entire tunnel for weeks after burning for days and releasing toxic fumes?

Skrillex (né Sonny Moore) was the guest of honor at a private birthday party in Hollywood Tuesday night, when a close encounter with some birthday candles nearly left the dubstepper bereft of his signature tatty coiffure.

If there's one thing Georgetown Prep school grad and current University of South Carolina pre-med bro Alexander Maroshek has learned it's how to distinguish between things that are frat and things that are not frat.

Retailers have just been instructed to pull 23 varieties of Banana Boat UltraMist sunscreen (SPFs 30 and 50) off their shelves over concerns that, in addition to providing ultra waterproof non-greasy protection from the sun, these products could also turn consumers into human torches, igniting on their skin if users touch a flame or spark before the spray has completely dried.

The 52-foot "Big Tex" statue that has welcomed visitors to the State Fair of Texas with a booming, "Howdy, folks!" for the past 60 years was completely destroyed in a terrifying burst of flames today.

Officials from the fire department in Holland Township, Michigan, say a fire that left 32 apartments uninhabitable was caused by a resident burning fur off a dead squirrel using a propane torch.

A three-alarm fire broke out at South Street Seaport on Pier 17 this afternoon.

No matter how terrible the Colorado fires sound, a firsthand account is even more harrowing.

Could this be the revenge of spurned Cedric the houseboy?