Fighting fire usually involves water or foam, but they can be messy and environmentally destructive. Engineers at Ohio State ...

Cancel any time. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Sudan's largest oil refinery in flames after being attacked in country's civil war, satellite images analyzed by AP show.

By 4.30 pm they were escorted downhill by police. “There were just flames everywhere,” Martha recalls. Sunset Boulevard was an apocalyptic black, with embers flying across the famous road.

As of Wednesday afternoon, there are no active flames Pacific Palisades, but crews are still keeping the area locked down. Just over a week since the Palisades Fire sparked, the area still cannot ...

The pages of books, some almost entirely blackened and illegible, others serrated and singed by flame from which fragments of text emerged, had been ripped, I imagine, out of peoples’ burning ...

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Warning: This story contains major spoilers for "Fourth Wing" and "Iron Flame," the first two books in Rebecca Yarros' "Empyrean" series. The following text has been faithfully transcribed from ...

"Here I stay ... as a human being or ashes," said 85-year-old Susan Salser. Susan Salser, 85, looked outside though her kitchen window on Jan. 7 and saw the fast-moving flames and clouds of smoke ...

ST. LOUIS — Sure, the St. Louis Blues wouldn’t have been eliminated from NHL playoff contention if they had fallen to the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night. But even with 39 games left in the ...

The Calgary Flames are riding a three-game winning streak that has seen them jump back into a playoff spot. They’ll attempt to make it four tonight against a St. Louis Blues squad nipping at ...

The Cessna 525 Citation jet initially appeared set for a normal landing Thursday when it then hit the ground across the road from the airport and burst into flames, videos of the crash show.

Aircraft battling fires raging through the Los Angeles area are dropping more than water: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of hot-pink fire suppressant ahead of the flames in a desperate effort to ...