Fire News

Cargill Inc.'s <CARG.UL> soybean processing plant in Sidney, Ohio, is up and running after a fire on Monday that took nearly four hours to extinguish, a company spokesman said on Tuesday.

Marseille - Fire raged through a Roma camp in Marseille on Sunday, just days after a blaze in a Paris area Roma camp killed an eight-year-old girl.No one was hurt in the fire on Sunday morning, but all 15 makeshift homes near the Marseille port were completely des...

Electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc <TSLA.O> said it has not yet determined how a Model S sedan parked in its owner's garage in Toronto caught fire earlier this month.

A blaze tore through the fifth floor of an apartment building at the Val d'Isère ski resort in the French Alps on Monday, forcing the evacuation of dozens of apartments. According to reports, some residents jumped from the windows to escape the flames.

Melbourne - More than 30 homes have been razed in the worst fire conditions Australia has seen since a 2009 inferno killed 173 people, with flames threatening the country's second-largest city, officials said Monday.

Dhaka - Owners of a Bangladesh garment factory were denied bail on Sunday after surrendering to a court which sought their arrest over the country's worst industrial fire that killed 111 workers.

Buenos Aires - At least nine firefighters and rescue workers were killed in Buenos Aires Wednesday when the wall of a warehouse engulfed by flames collapsed on top of them, officials said.

Dortmund - It seems everyone is a critic these days. Two men walked into a shop in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany demanding a bottle of Beck's Gold beer. When the shop owner couldn't oblige, they set the establishment on fire.

An out-of-control fire has swept across a peninsula in Flatanger, Norway, razing at least 140 buildings, in two villages, almost to the ground.

Barranquilla - A fire at a Colombian prison killed at least 10 inmates and injured more than three dozen, prison officials said on Tuesday.The blaze broke out late Monday at a prison in the northern city of Barranquilla, authorities said.