Corey Smedley tells why his department adopted the use of floor-below nozzles and smoke curtains for battling fires in unsprinklered high-rise residential buildings. Research that was conducted by the ...

Days after a deadly blaze in Hong Kong killed at least 151 people, China has ordered a nationwide fire safety inspection of its more than one million residential and public use high-rise buildings.

WITH more Malaysians living in high-rise homes than ever before, concerns are mounting over whether ageing infrastructure, uneven enforcement and human behaviour are leaving cities vulnerable when ...

The flames lit up the night sky. Thick, dark smoke poured out of windows and in the end, a charred and brittle structure remained, almost unrecognizable. The burning of a West London high-rise ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades burned through the night, leaving at least 44 people dead and 279 reported missing with rescuers still pulling residents from blazing high-rise ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Honolulu Fire Department extinguished a fire in a Waikīkī high-rise building overnight into March 26. HFD officials first received word of the Kuhio Avenue blaze shortly after ...

JERUSALEM – Fire teams on Monday rescued a teenager who was stuck dangling for seven hours from a crane hanging 36 stories above Jerusalem. The 15-year-old boy told rescue teams that he had climbed up ...

Dozens of people were forced to scramble to safety Friday afternoon after a fire broke out in a downtown Calgary high rise, ...

An elderly woman who was inside the flat at the time of the incident was safely evacuated by residents before the flames spread further. No loss of life was reported ...