Spontaneous combustion is a sometimes mysterious and often misunderstood or misdiagnosed combustion of flammable materials. I am sure that many fires have been blamed on spontaneous combustion ...

A Framingham firefighter suffered heat exhaustion while battling a fire on Bishop Drive. The fire, caused by spontaneous ...

Last month, a barn near rural Jackson, Michigan, caught fire in a suspected spontaneous combustion. The culprit is wet hay, which is counterintuitive if you don’t know much about the underlying ...

These blazes are notoriously difficult to extinguish, and one coalmine fire that could have arisen from spontaneous combustion, the Centralia Mine Fire which ignited in 1962, still burns today.

The inconclusive circumstances of her demise led Rolli to an unusual diagnosis: spontaneous human combustion, the first such case in scientific literature. Many investigators have since examined ...

Based on security video and investigation, firefighters determined the fire was caused by spontaneous combustion of staining materials that were put into a garbage container before fully drying.

A fire, which probably had its orgin in the spontaneous combustion of oily rags or cotton waste, broke out late last night on the top floor of the five-story building at No. 15 Vandewater-street.

That mysterious action known as spontaneous combustion, which has been the cause of so many disastrous fires both on and and sea, was very clearly explained in lecture on fire risks, by Ernest Cook.