Fires

Authorities in North Carolina say a children’s book, likely with a lithium battery, is to blame for a fire inside a vehicle that occurred Sunday when no one was in the car.

Nearly a dozen people were hurt and three times as many displaced by a raging fire that roared through a Brooklyn apartment building overnight, authorities say. At least six children were said to be among the more than 30 displaced when flames tore through a multi-unit building on Dean Street in Brownsville, between Mother Gaston Boulevard and Sackman Street, starting…

Nearly a dozen people were hurt and three times as many displaced by a four-alarm fire that roared through a Brooklyn apartment building early Tuesday, authorities say. Tracie Strahan reports.

An explosion leveled a home in New Jersey overnight, rattling the entire neighborhood as dramatic flames shot from the structure but causing no injuries, authorities said. Firefighters responded to a home on Tudor Oval in Westfield after getting a report of the explosion around 10:30 p.m. Monday, according to officials. Footage from the scene showed angry orange flames leaping from…

An explosion levels a home in New Jersey, rattling the entire neighborhood overnight. Tracie Strahan reports.

It was a scary morning for many travelers at JFK Airport. This after an escalator caught fire. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports. 

Family members said that 77-year-old Maria Soledad Taveras and her 74-year-old husband Luciano Taveras lived in their Washington Heights apartment for decades, but they couldn’t get out when a fire broke out Tuesday morning. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

Two people died when a fire engulfed a six-story apartment building in Manhattan early Tuesday, authorities say. Firefighters responded to the building on 178th Street in Washington Heights after getting a call about a three-alarm fire shortly before 2 a.m. They found the fire on the sixth floor. It had also spread to the floor below. A 77-year-old woman, later...

Two people died when a fire engulfed a Washington Heights building early Tuesday. Romney Smith reports.

The heat made it tough for the more than 100 members of the FDNY battling huge flames in the Bronx on Thursday, as several businesses burned and four firefighters were hurt. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

Chopper 4 was over the scene.

Fires in the Bronx and Manhattan kept emergency personnel busy early Thursday, with more than 100 firefighters battling flames at a Dunkin’ Donuts that spread to nearby stores and others tackling a rooftop blaze at a luxury building in SoHo. The fires broke out within about an hour of one another. Nearly a half-dozen firefighters were hurt in the SoHo…

No injuries were reported.

Retired UFC fighter Mark Coleman was in an induced coma in intensive care after he rescued his parents from a house fire in Toledo, Ohio, early Tuesday.

Nearby boaters assisted with the rescue after passengers jumped into the water to escape the fire near Glen Canyon National Park.

Hanoi police said some entire families were killed in the blaze, which broke out just before midnight Tuesday and wasn’t put out until Wednesday morning in the nine-story building in Vietnam’s capital.

Firefighters in Canada captured video of a fire whirl over Gun Lake, Canada, on Aug. 17 in the Downton Lake fire.

The wildfires have damaged hundred of homes and burned at least 25,000 acres.

The fast-moving wildfires that raked Maui this week will take a heavy toll on the environment.

A person was almost struck by a piece of debris while riding on a scooter through a neighborhood in flames in Lahaina, Hawaii.