Swiss investigators have also said that sparkling flares atop Champagne bottles ignited the fatal fire when they came too close to a crowded bar’s ceiling.

A look at bar and nightclub fires in the United States with significant death tolls and similar risks that led to the tragedies.

Videos and photos have begun to emerge showing the moments before the blaze tore through the Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana during a New Year's party.

VIENNA, Mo. (KMIZ) - Authorities have ruled a fire that burned down a Missouri nursing home over the summer was accidental. But it’s still shocking what caused it: a cigarette smoked by the local police chief. On the morning of Aug. 7, firefighters arrived at the Vienna Point Residential Care Center to find the building engulfed in flames.

NEW footage has emerged showing revellers filming a deadly blaze as it broke out at a packed bar in Switzerland before killing 40 people. Unaware of the extent of horror that was about to unfold,

"Nightclubs are not fire-safety friendly places," said Milad Haghani, associate professor of urban resilience and mobility at the University of Melbourne. He noted the danger of flammable soundproofing insulation, commonly found in such disasters.

A Missouri police chief’s lit cigarette was the cause of a fire that destroyed a local nursing home over the summer, an official report has found.

Dramatic footage shows firefighters crawling across ice to save a dog that fell through a frozen Rhode Island pond on New Year's Day.

Video from a gas station security camera shows what a new filing in a lawsuit alleges is the start of this month’s deadly Eaton Fire in the Los Angeles area – electrical sparking at a utility transmission tower in the hilly Eaton Canyon area near the ...