All news on the topic: House fires

A man in his 60s, who was known to the woman, has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a blaze broke out on the ground floor of a house in Christchurch, Dorset

A large plume of dark smoke can be seen shooting high into the air above Archer Daniels Midlands plant in Decatur, Illinois, after the explosion on Sunday evening

Homeless Scott McKay went on the rampage in June, setting two properties and several bins and skips on fire, before dialing 999 and threatening to kill himself

Police were called to a home in Seattle's Wallingford neighbourhood with reports of a shooting and arrived to find the home engulfed in flames with the bodies of two adults, an infant, a child and a dog all discovered

The property where the blaze happened was being used as a T-shirt printing warehouse and likely started in the middle of the building, which prevented most of those inside from escaping

A mum-of-two has issued an urgent warning to other parents after her daughter's toy started a fire in her house - and she shared she was grateful they were running late that day

Huge plumes of smoke were reportedly visible from the other side of Liverpool after a fire broke out on the top deck of a bus in the centre of the city on Lime Street near Liverpool Central Station

These dehumidifiers - manufactured by China-based Gree Electric Appliances - are separate from the ones previously recalled from the manufacturer that may have been responsible for the death of four people

WARNING, DISRESSING FOOTAGE: The New York City Fire Department confirmed four people were initially injured, with three having serious injuries, and the fourth was able to walk away unscathed

Bar owners in the devastated town of Lāhainā in Hawaii claim looters have been pillaging the village in the night without the oversight of authorities, stealing people's possessions and robbing them at gunpoint

Five were killed in the house explosion in Plum, western Pennsylvania, with three properties destroyed and at least a dozen others damaged on Saturday around 10.30am local time

The combination of a northern pressure system, a hurricane to the south and dry air is leading to stronger flames that are being spread by the resulting wind patterns, says a meteorologist

Desperate Samantha Stephenson couldn't save her partner Wayne Godinet and five young children as a devastating fire ripped through their family home in Queensland, Australia, overnight

Firefighters found the dad on the ground floor of the property in Kentish Town, north London, but were unable to save him as a fundraising drive is launched to help the bereaved family

Witnesses claim they saw the young mother trying to run back inside the burning building before her husband held her back and returned to the inferno himself, trying to save their five young boys

The video capturing the incredible rescue in Almaty, Kazakhstan, showed the young child being dangled by a woman out the window as black plumes of smoke billow out of their flat

Tara Salisbury has relived the horrific moment she lost five-year-old daughter Alysia in a fire that gutted their Pembrokeshire home, saying it was like "something out of a horror movie"

A woman, 50, was killed in a horrific house fire in Moston, Manchester, on Thursday, despite the heroic efforts of firefighters who pulled her from an upstairs window

David Bird was looking forward to his wedding later in the year as he took his three sons on a 'rare weekend away' but just one day into his trip his pal Dan, who was house sitting, called him in tears to tell him his house was on fire

George Redmond, 76, died after his house on Dorien Road in Old Swan, Merseyside, was set alight in the early hours of September 1 last year as a court heard the culprits got the wrong address

Bobby Lee, 78, was killed in a horrifying house fire in London believed to have been started by an exploding e-scooter, as the rest of his family managed to escape the flames

PC Justin Robbie has been nominated for a bravery award after he raced into a blazing fire at a tower block in Bristol and helped rescue two men who were hanging from a ledge on the 16th floor

Six people have been killed with scores injured, two of them in critical condition, after an inferno tore through a retirement home in Milan, Italy

Gemma Germeney, 31, died at the scene of the fire that ripped through their Cambridge home in on Friday morning - her children, four and eight, later died in hospital

Gemma Germeney, 31, died at the scene while two children, aged four and eight, later died in hospital following a fire in a flat that more than 30 firefighters were called to