Arson suspect targeted groomsmen who didn’t support failed marriage
UPDATE: Walnut Creek suspect denies arsons against groomsmen in jailhouse interview https://t.co/9zsbtvHhjl @mgafni pic.twitter.com/1bUzPpa5Ig — Contra Costa Times (@CCTimes) January 6, 2016 MARTINEZ,...
View Article'People were dropping children and jumping': Dozens hurt, 7 missing after...
"It was one big boom, like nothing I'd ever heard." - Resident Willie Morales SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Dozens of people, including three firefighters, were injured after an explosion and large fire at...
View ArticleFire rips through Dubai’s Marina Torch residential tower
DUBAI // A fire broke out in the early hours of Saturday in Dubai’s Marina Torch, one of the tallest residential buildings in the world, sending bright yellow flames several stories high, but there...
View ArticleHigh-rise tower in Dubai's Marina district catches fire, no reports of anyone...
Published February 21, 2015Associated Press Facebook0 Twitter0 Email Print Fire damage is seen on high floors of the Torch Tower after it was extinguished at Dubai's Marina district Saturday, Feb. 21,...
View ArticleHash oil burns are a growing problem for Calif. hospitals
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Explosions and fires from the illegal manufacture of butane hash oil - cheap and easy to make but extremely volatile - have sharply increased in California in recent years....
View ArticleSuspect arrested in Walnut Creek arson
Police arrested a man on suspicion of arson after a building was torched in Walnut Creek, authorities said Monday. At 9:20 p.m....
View ArticleFire official: Dozens hurt in Maryland apartment blaze
SILVER SPRING, Md. — Dozens of people, including three firefighters, were injured after a large fire at an apartment complex in a Maryland suburb of Washington and searchers are looking for up to seven...
View ArticleAt least 9 killed in warehouse fire, dozens still missing
At least nine people died in a blaze that broke out during a party in a converted warehouse late Friday night in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to fire officials. Oakland Fire Chief Teresa...
View ArticleSheriff: Vail man burned in hash oil explosion faces felony charges
( | ) Authorities in Eagle County say a 24-year-old man faces felony charges after sustaining second-degree burns on 25 percent of his body in an...
View ArticleMan burned in blast making hash oil sues butane businesses
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) An Oregon medical marijuana patient who was badly burned in an explosion while he was legally using butane as a solvent to make hash oil is suing the makers and sellers of the...
View ArticleWoman Mauled By Pet Pit Bull In San Francisco Bay Area Home
PINOLE, Calif. (AP) — A 40-year-old woman in the San Francisco Bay Area was severely mauled by her family pit bull. Pinole Battalion Chief Steve Akre tells the Contra Costa Times newspaper...
View ArticleDozens hurt, several missing after DC-area apartment blast
SILVER SPRING, Md. — Dozens of people, including three firefighters, were injured after an explosion and large fire at an apartment complex in a Maryland suburb of Washington and searchers are looking...
View ArticleDiscarded cigarette suspected in blaze at Walnut Creek apartments
A two-alarm fire that may have been caused by an unattended smoldering cigarette heavily damaged or destroyed six...
View ArticlePit bull badly mauls woman at San Francisco Bay Area home
PINOLE, Calif. (AP) — A 40-year-old woman in the San Francisco Bay Area was severely mauled by her family pit bull. Pinole...
View ArticlePrice of pot: Hash oil brewing explosions on the rise
Law-enforcement authorities and substance abuse experts agree that hash oil has been...
View ArticleDubai skyscraper catches fire, though no one killed in blaze
Add comment Reprints + - This photo provided by Jose Vicente shows flames coming from a high rise tower in Dubai's marina district Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015. The fire broke out early Saturday in the...
View ArticleWalnut Creek Explosion Injures Three, Destroys Four Apartments
Authorities said the blast occurred at approximately 10:20 a.m. on Saturday morning. Contra Costa Fire District Battalion Chief Jim Howard confirmed the explosion caused damage in a 200-foot radius...
View ArticleStrong California quake shakes famed wine country
NAPA, Calif. (AP) -- The strongest earthquake in 25 years struck the heart of California's wine country early Sunday, igniting gas-fed fires, damaging some of the region's famed wineries and historic...
View ArticleMan injured when suspected hash-oil lab blows up in Santa Rosa
A man was injured after a suspected butane hash-oil lab exploded in a shed in Santa Rosa, prompting the evacuation of nearby homes and an apartment complex, officials said Friday. Officers arrived on...
View ArticleApartment blaze sends 3 firefighters to hospital
It took the Houston Fire Department about two hours to extinguish a blaze that gutted at least 60 units at a northwest-side apartment complex and sent three firefighters to the hospital. The blaze...
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