After hours of confusion and misreporting as police waited for fire to dissipate and temperatures to cool, authorities confirmed that a charred body was found in the smoldering cabin where a suspect believed to be Christopher Jordan Dorner, the ex-LAPD officer who allegedly killed four people over a weeklong campaign…
Officials say at least 232 people died in a nightclub fire overnight in Brazil, and that number is expected to climb. More »
Here is a video of a massive palm tree just burning like hell, and raining fire down on all the innocent Angelenos unfortunate enough to be below it. This happened on Fairfax Avenue earlier this month, when some kids at rap group Odd Future's T-shirt store shot a bottle rocket into it, igniting it and causing it to…
Crazy homeless lady in training Courtney Love is about to be homeless for real because her landlord is evicting her from the $27,000 a month Village townhouse she's been living in since February. Apparently Courtney tried to burn the place down. Of course she did.
Starting at about 9:30pm yesterday, the main complex on the harbor in the Fire Island Pines, gay-list New York's summer getaway, caught on fire destroying the historic Pavilion nightclub, the bar Sip 'N' Twirl, the restaurant Pines Bistro, and the eateries and retail spaces below them. The whole complex will be…
It's been a horrible year for wildfires in Texas—six of the state's ten largest recorded wildfires have come in the last eight months, and nearly 3.5 million acres have burned so far. Right now, a large fire in Bastrop State Park—near Austin—rages completely out of control, and another in Montgomery County has forced…
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun on 85th St. is ablaze tonight, with 170 firefighters battling the four-alarm fire. The building was undergoing renovations. Despite sightings of fireballs and flames "spitting out of stained-glass windows," FDNY reports just four minor injuries to firefighters.
Brad Woodard from Houston's KHOU went to cover the fire at an oil storage tank, but the smoke seen billowing on camera wasn't just from the fire, it was coming from Woodard's mouth as well. When the camera cut to him, he was still smoking a cigarette.
Last weekend, Sen. John McCain made headlines when he inexplicably accused illegal immigrants of starting the wildfires currently ravaging Arizona. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart pointed out the absurdity of McCain's statements before conducting an interview with a McCain puppet—yes, a real puppet—about all of…
Here's a local news interview featuring Tommy, a Hazelton, Pennsylvania resident whose house had just burned down. That's sad! Tommy's insane—and I mean insane, child—level of drunkenness, however? Well, that's just plain hilarious. "I'm gonna get racial!"
Ashley Turton, a lobbyist and ex-Hill staffer whose husband, Dan Turton, is the White House's legislative liaison to the House of Representatives, was found dead in a burnt car inside a Capitol Hill garage this morning.
Do you have some kerosene, birthday candles and a water gun sitting around your house? Did you ever want to make your own flamethrower? Then watch this video to see how—with absolutely engulfing results! (Don't really do it.)
The scene: A luxe party at a Manhattan penthouse. Diddy hosts and livestreams video of his beautiful guests, like a model cavorting in a hot tub, surrounded by candles, one increasingly large flame—ohmigod! She's on fire! Everyone panic!
"The Block," the Baltimore neighborhood known for its "strip clubs with gaudy lights," was hit by a five-alarm fire around 4 p.m. It's under control now (just two alarms), and luckily no injuries were reported. But it looked gnarly!
Anderson Cooper's dangerous Greenwich Village converted firehouse home wasn't much help when his neighbor's apartment caught fire early today. The FDNY still managed to put out the blaze quickly. There are too many Anderson Cooper/firemen jokes to pick just one!
The Corvallis, Oregon mosque where Mohamed Osman Mohamud—the former rapper suspected of trying to blow up Portland's Christmas tree lighting ceremony—sometimes worshipped was set on fire on Sunday. Because, yes, mosque arson will definitely discourage anti-American terrorism.
A family forgot to pay a $75 fire protection fee to their small Tennessee town. Then their house caught on fire and firefighters stood by as it and all their possessions burned to the ground. Here's the sad news report.
A bitter 24-year-old former Domino's Pizza employee from the Bronx, Jamal Thomas, was arrested Friday for allegedly setting fire to two Domino's locations and inflicting $1 million in damages. Naturally, he used pizza boxes as fire starters.
A fire at the 1st Avenue L station has halted service to and from Williamsburg, so now's our chance to pull up Manhattan's anchors and sail away from it forever. Williamsburgians stuck on the island can be put to work.
NYU spent four years and $120 million to tear up Mercer Street and install its new, eco-friendly subterranean power plant. Too bad it's currently on fire.
