JOLIET (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Fire officials in Joliet are advising people not to use fire to thaw frozen pipes, following a small fire that broke out in Joliet Wednesday. Fire crews were on the scene of ...

FRESNO, Calif. -- Disclaimer: Don't do this at home. Fire officials in Fresno, California say a man who was house-sitting for his parents set the home on fire after he used a blowtorch to kill black ...

SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – Firefighters are battling flames at Advent United Methodist Church that the pastor says may have started from a blowtorch. According to the pastor, construction crews had a ...

Police officers detained a man with a blowtorch on Thursday accused of trying to start fires in a Los Angeles community. Citizens initially apprehended the suspect in the area before the LAPD took him ...

The $10 million complaint, filed by McLaughlin & Stern and Parlatore Law Group, alleges A&E Real Estate Holdings is grossly negligent for the Dec. 2023 blaze. Queens tenants left homeless after a ...

Police detained a person allegedly seen using a blowtorch Monday to set multiple vegetation fires along the Interstate Highway 880 corridor in Oakland, authorities said. The Oakland Fire Department ...

(KRON) — The Oakland Fire Department responded to “multiple” vegetation fires shortly after noon on Monday near Interstate 880, fire officials said. A traffic advisory was in effect near the ...

The man with a blowtorch who was arrested by citizens last week after allegedly trying to start fires in a Los Angeles neighborhood is an illegal immigrant, according to a report Sunday night. Fox ...

Would-be cleaners take note: A blowtorch is not a good substitute for a broom. Coweta County authorities say Galen Winchell set fire to his west Georgia home Wednesday as he cleaned cobwebs from ...