Cold temperatures made things difficult for crews battling a house fire Friday morning in Sherborn, Massachusetts.

A fire in the switching gears of a railroad crossing in Whitman, Massachusetts has shut down Commuter Rail service in the immediate area. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said the fire was reported sometime before 7 a.m. Friday in the area of 969 Franklin Street. Kingston Train 036 is running up to 15 minutes behind schedule as crews respond to…

Specialist firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, officials said Thursday.

Maine State Police say a body has been found in a home that was destroyed by fire in Fort Fairfield. Spokesman Steve McCausland says investigators found the body in the basement Monday night and believe it’s the 90-year-old homeowner, Dawn Findlen, who lived in the home alone. Fire investigators say the cause of the blaze is undetermined due to...

After a longtime business in central Vermont’s stoneworking industry was destroyed by fire, its next-door neighbor is now profusely thanking firefighters for their hard work that saved a second property from damage. The La Cross Memorials building on Boynton Street in Barre burned down Saturday, dealing a blow to the city that calls itself “the granite center of the...

Officials say a woman is unaccounted for after a fire swept through a three-story apartment house in northern Maine. The fire, reported at 4 a.m. Monday, flattened the building in Fort Fairfield, and workers were searching in the rubble for the missing woman. Maine Public Safety Department spokesman Steve McCausland said the cold temperatures were hampering the search. It was…

Firefighters responded to a blaze at a mill building in Fall River, Massachusetts.

An early morning fire reportedly ripped through a mill building Monday in Fall River, Massachusetts, threatening to jump to another structure before crews were able to contain the flames. WJAR reports the blaze was reported at about 12:30 a.m. at the Stafford Mills complex on County Street. There, crews saw flames extending to the fifth floor in a portion of…

Weeks after an Alaska man’s remote cabin burned down, he was rescued by Alaska State Troopers who found him by a makeshift shelter with an SOS signal stamped in the snow.

Owners of a kangaroo rescue in Australia were forced to flee when fire ripped through the area. They returned not knowing what happened to the kangaroos.

Australia’s government on Monday said it was willing to pay “whatever it takes” to help communities recover from deadly wildfires that have ravaged the country.

A family in Vermont’s Addison County is starting out 2020 grateful for their lives after a fire tore through their home in the early hours of Thursday morning. “I’m thankful that my kids are out,” Tonya Counter told NECN roughly ten hours after fleeing her burning home. Counter and her family lost most of what they owned when their...

One woman was rescued and more than 20 residents were displaced early Thursday morning after a fire burned through a multi-family home in Rockland, Massachusetts.

Firefighters in New South Wales continue to battle wildfires in the region. Video from Fire and Rescue NSW shows one of their units being overrun by flames from the fire.

Several tenants leapt to safety after Concord Hills Apartments on Sherbrooke Avenue in Hartford caught fire Tuesday morning around seven. Investigators searching for a cause focused on the second floor where the first firefighters on the scene said they found pieces of furniture on fire. The smoke was so thick that some tenants had to be rescued by a fire…

Authorities investigating the death of a man whose body was found after a garage fire in New Hampshire say the man did not die in the blaze. Crews arrived a little after 4 a.m. Saturday to 354 Shaker Rd. in Northfield, where they found the garage heavily engulfed in flames, the New Hampshire State Fire Marshal’s Office said. When the…

Three children were killed and a fourth was hospitalized along with two adults and a firefighter after crews battled a fire at a house in Miami Monday, officials said. Responding firefighters found heavy smoke coming from the rear of the home in the 3600 block of Northwest 18th Terrace, Miami Fire Rescue Capt. Ignatius Carroll said. “As firefighters made their…

It is unclear what the home owners plan to do with the property

A man was found dead in a fire at a detached garage in Northfield, New Hampshire, early Saturday morning. Officials arrived a little after 4 a.m. to 354 Shaker Rd. in Northfield, where they found the garage heavily engulfed in flames, the New Hampshire State Fire Marshal’s Office said. When the fire was put out, a male victim was found…

Fire crews remain at the scene of a massive fire that erupted on Friday in a historic, multi-million dollar home in Concord, Massachusetts. Firefighters spent much of the day Friday battling the 4-alarm blaze. It is still unclear what started the fire. The flames, which could be seen engulfing the building, brought down the roof of the mansion on Fairhaven…