Approximately 10,000 deaths per year in the United States are caused by burning or by other lethal attributes of conflagrations. In almost a quarter of these the victim is found dead at the scene ...

On the east side of Ninth-street, below Ellsworth, was the extensive rag warehouse of Henry Hey, which, being filled with rags, added largely to the conflagration, and beside the total destruction ...

Despite the rapid response of the Chelsea Fire Department and mutual aid from 69 communities, the fire escalated into a massive conflagration, consuming 20% of the city and creating a firestorm ...

Police and fire fighters worked around the clock, not only trying to stifle the growing conflagration but keeping watch for potential looters. I spotted one man with a hammer and a flashlight look ...

Now that the inevitable chicken has come home to roost, state policy continues to fail the firefighters charged with putting out the conflagration. California has not constructed a new major ...

Rising winds threaten to spread the conflagration to suburban neighborhoods. Residents nearby were ordered to evacuate or warned to be ready to leave quickly ahead of the fire. The blaze ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. By that evening, the Palisades fire had consumed more than 1,260 acres and ...

I am still processing what just happened in Los Angeles. Not a wildfire. More of a conflagration. Humidity under 10% — winds gusting to 80 mph — 0.16 inches of rain in the last eight months ...

What is happening in LA and has happened in every major conflagration in the U.S. in the last 200 years is really a wildland fire that transitions into an urban conflagration. When a wildland ...