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LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Theresa May is facing demands that she appoint commissioners to run the local government blamed for mishandling the response to a high-rise apartment fire that killed at least 80 people.

LONDON (AP) — The number of people killed or presumed dead in the London high-rise fire has inched up to 80, but the final death toll may not be known for months, British police said at a grim briefing Wednesday.

BERLIN (AP) — A western German city decided Tuesday to evacuate an 11-story apartment block because of concerns over exterior insulation similar to that of London’s Grenfell Tower.

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May said Tuesday there must be a “major national investigation” into the use of potentially flammable cladding fitted to high-rise towers across the country, as police formally identified a 5-year-old boy as one of youngest victims of London’s Grenfell Tower fire tragedy.

LONDON (AP) — Police are considering filing manslaughter charges related to the fire at a west London apartment tower that killed at least 79 people.

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May’s office says combustible cladding has so far been found on seven high-rise blocks in England after tests ordered by the government. The British leader said earlier Thursday that tests were being carried

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Emergency services in Portugal said Tuesday they were making good progress in controlling a major wildfire that killed 64 people in the central area of the country, while officials said reports that a water-dropping plane had

LONDON (AP) — The new exterior cladding used in a renovation on London’s Grenfell Tower may have been banned under U.K. building regulations, two British ministers said Sunday as police continued their criminal investigation into the inferno that killed at least 58 people.

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — More than 1,500 firefighters in Portugal are still battling to control major wildfires in the central region of the country, where one blaze killed 62 people.

Angry locals have stormed the buildings of Kensington and Chelsea council, demanding “answers” and “justice” after the Grenfell Tower fire.

(AFP) — At least 30 people have been confirmed killed and dozens more are feared dead in the London tower block fire, police said on Friday, as firefighters continued searching for bodies amid outrage over the use of cladding blamed

LONDON (AP) — London firefighters combed through a burned-out public housing tower Thursday in a grim search for missing people as police and the prime minister launched investigations into the deadly inferno, with pressure building on officials to explain the disaster and assure that similar buildings around the country are safe.

‘Green’ and ‘eco’ concerns may have been put before fire safety worries during the refurbishment of the West London tower that was engulfed in flames this week.

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered a full public inquiry into the high-rise fire in West London.

LONDON (AP) — With smoke still swirling around the charred remains of Grenfell Tower in west London, residents and community leaders demanded to know Wednesday how a ferocious fire could have swept through the high-rise apartment block with such speed

Thieves attempting to steal money from an ATM machine in Washington state botched their planned burglary when they accidentally set the cash they intended to steal on fire, police said.

In what was described as a “freak accident,” the body of an extremely overweight person started a fire in a Cincinnati, funeral home during the cremation process.

A man ignited two large fires on the 17th floor of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, using toasters and towels to set the flames.

A police officer has been injured after an explosion and fire tore through a house in Finsbury Park, North London, following an ‘altercation’.

A homeless man accused of starting a fire that caused part of a bridge on Interstate 85 in Atlanta to collapse was allegedly smoking crack right before the fire started, according to his arrest warrant obtained by the New York Daily News.

A college math professor went high-tech when he decided to play an April Fool’s Day prank on his students.

Three people were arrested Friday in connection with a massive fire under a bridge on Interstate 85 in Atlanta that caused part of the bridge to collapse.

Less than four months after the devastating “Ghost Ship” blaze, another Oakland building fire has claimed the lives of four people.

A Santa Monica firefighter who spent 20 minutes performing CPR on a dog that was rescued from a burning apartment Tuesday afternoon has been lauded as a hero for saving his life.

HELSINKI (AP) – Swedish police say at least 15 people have been injured when a fire broke out overnight at one of the country’s largest migrant centres outside of Vanersborg in southwestern Sweden. Police spokesman Tommy Nyman says two people

A report from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has revealed that over 230 American universities are encouraging students to report their peers for offensive speech.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released a statement condemning the actions of the protesters at the MILO event at UC Berkeley Wednesday night.

An imam with the Victoria Islamic Center is defending President Donald Trump’s executive order to halt refugee resettlement, saying it is about “security for the country.”

President Donald Trump made a call to Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings from Maryland and expressed his condolences for a staffer that lost six children in a house fire.

A teenager allegedly set a Brooklyn man’s arm on fire on a New York City subway in Queens and boasted about it to his friends not long after.

A dog heroically saved a family from a house fire Wednesday morning.

A man was injured Tuesday night while attempting to start a fire outside the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is investigating the cancellation of Breitbart Senior Editor MILO’s event at UC Davis last Friday.

The German press, together with establishment politicians, Germany’s police, and left-wing international news agencies have railed against Breitbart London’s reporting of an 1,000-strong crowd, many of whom were chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’, and firing fireworks at one of the oldest churches

An explosion at a fireworks market 25 miles north of Mexico City killed “at least two dozen” people on Tuesday, December 20.

According to a WFLA report, a Hillsborough County, FL home was set on fire in what appears to be related to the results of the 2016 election. Hillsborough County Fire-Rescue crews reportedly got a call about a fire around 1:20 a.m.