The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

Sixty-four years ago this week, 92 children and three of their teachers died in the Our Lady of the Angels School fire on Chicago’s West Side. The anniversary takes me back to a fifth grade classroom in another Catholic school two miles to the south, the day after the fire.

There is no threat to people or property, the Fire and Rescue spokesperson said.

A truck loaded with car tyres caught fire in a tunnel in Prachin Buri late on Thursday night, and the north-bound road was still closed to traffic on Friday.

Highway 304 in Prachin Buri was reported to have reopened to traffic on Friday afternoon after being blocked on Thursday night by a burning container truck in the north-bound lane of Khao Yai-Thap Lan tunnel.

Scottish Fire and Rescue officers were called to the scene tonight after the fire broke out in a house in Grangemouth.

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and a number of officers had raced to the scene shortly after 10.05pm after reports of the blaze on Meadowpark Avenue.

It caused a fire and damage to the property

Three boys, all 13, have been charged after fire crews battled the blaze in Kirkcaldy, Fife, for nearly nine hours.

The increasing risk of wildfires in Colorado is driving insurance carriers to raise premiums on homeowners’ policies — if they decide to insure them at all — and now the state’s insurance chief is suggesting a publicly funded pool of money be established to provide property insurance for those who…