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An art instructor is suing Hamline University for not renewing her contract after she showed a medieval depiction of Islam’s prophet Muhammad in class. Incredibly, the university’s response to student complaints was that “respect for the observant Muslim students in that classroom should have superseded academic freedom.”

A fire at a Wisconsin Dairy Plant resulted in melted butter entering a storm sewer system and ultimately spilling into an adjacent canal.

A suspect is in custody for allegedly setting a 117-Year-Old Portland church on fire Tuesday. 

A Secret Santa in Idaho had a big surprise for a family who lost everything during a recent fire.

The Stroitrakt shopping mall in Balashikha, a suburb of Moscow, caught fire on Monday morning. More than 100,000 square feet of the mall was damaged in the blaze, and at least one person was injured, according to the Russian Emergencies Ministry.

A Chicago homeless man, known as the ‘Walking Man,’ has died nearly seven months after he was set on fire while sleeping on the street.

A retired Chicago teacher who spent time in prison for setting a fire outside a bar a few years ago has reportedly not learned his lesson.

A New York City apartment fire left 38 people injured, including two critically, and five seriously. The blaze was caused by a lithium-ion battery linked to a micro-mobility device, according to the New York Fire Department (FDNY).

Members of the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) successfully resuscitated a cat found inside a burning apartment.

Arkansas State Police (ASP) troopers deployed a stun gun on a suspect following a recent motorcycle pursuit and the result was not what they expected.

President Joe Biden again exaggerated the story of his 2004 house fire on Tuesday, explaining to firefighters at an event the devastation to his home caused by a lightning strike.

The College Republicans student group at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) claim their event featuring New Hampshire congressional candidate Karoline Leavitt (R) was restricted due to the speaker being deemed “controversial.”

Fans of the University of Kentucky Wildcats football team went wild in Lexington on Saturday after a big win.

Fire officials say they are seeing progress in battling the Mosquito Creek wildfire in Northern California, but thousands of homes still remain threatened. 

A 14-year-old girl has been arrested in connection with a fire that occurred at a Walmart in Peachtree City, Georgia, on August 24.

An outing turned dangerous for several people whose vessel went up in flames Saturday on the Hudson River.

A Maryland couple is lucky to be alive after their dog’s barking awoke them from a life-threatening situation.

A store in Mayabeque, Cuba, boasted of rewarding first responders for helping extinguish the largest fire in the history of the nation with a meager supply of chicken, deodorant, soda, and cooking oil this week – basic goods that have for decades been considered luxuries for many suffering under communism.

An electrical fire broke out at a Coptic Christian church outside of Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday, killing at least 41 congregants, including “mostly children” gathered inside the house of worship for Mass, Reuters reported Monday.

A brush fire ignited near a major roadway in Gorman, California, on Wednesday, spreading to over 100 acres as more than 200 firefighters responded.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping contacted his communist counterpart, figurehead Cuban “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel, on Monday to lend support in the face of a massive oil tank fire at a facility in northern Matanzas that has been raging since Friday.

Cuban authorities evacuated more than 4,000 residents over the weekend after a lightning strike allegedly sparked a fire at Cuba’s largest state oil depot in Matanzas city on Friday night, causing three oil tankers to burn and collapse as of Monday, the news website Cubanet reported.

A section of Beirut’s grain silos collapsed on Thursday, the same day that Lebanon marked the second anniversary of a deadly explosion at the Port of Beirut that devastated the city and damaged the very same grain silos, the National, a U.A.E.-based newspaper, reported.

A teenager in western Pennsylvania helped save multiple residents from an apartment fire by moving a trampoline to ease the landing for victims jumping out the side of the building.

Sections of Beirut’s grain silos collapsed on Sunday after weakening during a weeks-long fire caused by recent high temperatures that fermented the silos’ grain stores, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported, noting that the silos were infamous for shielding much of western Beirut from an August 2020 port explosion and sustaining partial damage from the blast themselves.

A wind farm lost one of its turbines after a lightning strike on Friday reportedly caused it to catch fire in Crowell, Texas, according to Fox Weather.

Video footage from tourists captured the moments after a transformer exploded at the Hoover Dam, causing a fire on Tuesday.

A professor is suing the University of Washington (UW) after administrators punished him for refusing to echo the school’s woke leftist claim that the campus sits on “occupied land” that once belonged to indians, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights (FIRE). According to professor Stuart Reges, “Land acknowledgments are performative acts of conformity that should be resisted, even if it lands you in court.”

Heart-stopping body camera footage shows three police officers rescue a man from a burning vehicle in Bergen County, New Jersey.

A faith-based center for pregnant women in Colorado was vandalized and burned Saturday, and authorities are looking for those responsible.

Police are investigating a woman set on fire June 16 in Philadelphia’s Kensington area, and a report identified her as 36-year-old Alyssa Morales.

Firefighters in Sacramento County, California, say a Tesla fire required some 4,500 gallons of water to extinguish because the batteries kept reigniting.

A fire devastated a church in Texas on Friday but there was one thing the blaze failed to destroy.

Three people and two dogs jumped overboard Saturday from a yacht that went up in flames near New Castle, New Hampshire, and were rescued by a citizen.

A Philadelphia firefighter died Saturday after a building collapsed, while several others were sent to a hospital after being extracted from the debris.

Firefighters in Greece on Sunday were battling a wildfire for a second day in two suburbs of the capital of Athens.