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 ...

CINCINNATI — One person has been displaced from their home after the Cincinnati Fire Department (CFD) said they accidentally set their house on fire Sunday night. Cincinnati fire crews responded to ...

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 ...

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 ...