The blaze is contained but continues to burn along the railway line by Wainui South Road, Whakamarama.

Northwest Fire Chief Chester Borkowski Jr. investigates the cause of a house fire Wednesday in the Dorchester subdivision near Belleville. Firefighters believe the fire started on the rear deck ...

Survivors described chaos as they navigated smoke-filled corridors in darkness. Some said there were no alarms, sprinkler systems or visible fire escapes. Some were forced to leap from windows to ...

Desperate guests at a Turkish ski resort that exploded into flames tried to escape using bedsheets as ropes hanging from the windows, while others died after trying to jump to safety. The number ...

Survivors told Turkish news outlets that there were no fire or smoke alarms, nor fire escapes for people to exit the building — a claim disputed by the tourism minister who said there were two.

Some survivors said no fire alarms went off nor were there any fire escapes at the Grand Kartal Hotel in Kartalkaya which lies 170 kilometres (100 miles) northwest of Ankara. Interior Minister Ali ...

(WOOD) — Two children have been released from the hospital and four adults continue to receive care Wednesday evening after they escaped a house fire early ... of a daring escape when ...

and that there were no fire escapes. "No fire alarm went off... and there was no fire escape," Atakan Yelkovan told IHA news agency, saying it had taken "between an hour and an hour-and-a-half ...

Officials say at least two of them died after jumping from the building to escape the flames. More than 50 others were also injured in the fire at the Grand Kartal hotel in Kartalkaya ski resort ...

A tourist described scenes of chaos as panicked guests tried to escape a hotel after it caught fire on Tuesday. Guests clambered down from their rooms using sheets and blankets after the blaze ...

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The number of dead after a fire that engulfed a hotel at a ski resort in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday rose to 66, the interior minister said. Witnesses said desperate guests had tried to escape ...