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Two children were rescued from a fire at a Mesa, Arizona, apartment building on Friday thanks to a heroic citizen and police officer.

A grateful citizen in Tulsa, Oklahoma, recently shook hands with the man who saved him when his truck went up in flames in a Chick-Fil-A drive-thru.

Two sets of Chicago families who lost everything they owned in a fire are getting the care and love they need from their school friends.

An Iowa community is banding together to support a family who lost everything they owned in a house fire over the weekend.

Nearly six in ten Americans feel that democracy is threatened in the United States due to people being afraid to voice their opinions, and that 68 percent of Americans agree that people are overly sensitive and looking for ways to be offended, according to a new survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

Rival ethnic tribes in Indonesia’s West Papua province clashed in the early morning hours of Tuesday, sparking a nightclub fire that burned 17 people “alive,” BenarNews reported, adding that an 18th victim died from stab wounds sustained in the fighting.

A 41-year-old Detroit man accused of setting fire to his girlfriend, who is pregnant with twins, has bonded out of a Wayne County jail for just $5,000 after posting ten percent of his $50,000 bond, according to a report.

A mom trapped in a Bronx fire that killed 19 individuals and hurt dozens nearly lost hope she and her children would be rescued, NBC New York reported Monday.

Pope Francis sent a telegram Monday to extend condolences and offer prayers for the 19 victims of a lethal fire Sunday in a Bronx high-rise.

A huge fire that destroyed a large part of South Africa’s parliament has been brought under control, firefighters said on Monday.

Key West Police are searching for two suspects who burned a portion of the Southernmost Point Buoy in the early morning of New Year’s Day.

The Parliament of South Africa caught fire early Sunday morning in Cape Town and burned for several hours, damaging both houses of the national legislature, with no cause yet determined, according to local news reports.

The skies over Belfast, Ireland turned black on Tuesday afternoon as a large fire has engulfed an area near the city’s docks.

A massive fire in the QVC distribution center in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, drew a major emergency response early Saturday.

A 27-year-old woman has been arrested following a South London house fire that killed four children.

A fire broke out inside a 59-story Hong Kong commercial tower on Wednesday trapping hundreds of people on the building’s roof and balconies before firefighters successfully rescued all of the stranded fire victims and put out the blaze, Radio Television Hong Kong (HTHK) reported.

A man rescued a child whose mother dropped her from a second-floor window during a fire at an apartment complex located in north St. Louis.

Police in Queensland, Australia, charged a woman with arson on Sunday after she allegedly set fire to a hotel room in which she was quarantined according to state coronavirus protocol, Australia’s Seven News reported Monday.

A bus carrying North Macedonians home from a tourist trip to Istanbul crashed and caught fire in western Bulgaria early Tuesday.

Investigators are searching for the cause of a house fire in London that killed two women and two children.

Joe Biden has cited this story before, particularly while talking about the importance of firefighters.

A fire at a COVID-19 hospital killed two people Thursday. It was the fourth fatal fire at a Romanian COVID-19 hospital during the pandemic.

A South Carolina man has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for leaving his 19-month old toddler daughter to die in a burning car while fleeing police, authorities said.

California firefighters rescued a woman from a rolled-over vehicle in the nick of time as fire was rapidly engulfing the car.

A 29-year-old Upstate New York man was sent to the hospital in serious condition after allegedly being tased by police officers and bursting into flames last weekend, according to reports.  

Washington & Lee University (W&L) in Lexington, Virginia, told student members of the school’s College Republicans group to stop passing out flyers in favor of the state’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, Glenn Youngkin, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

A man is being hailed as a hero for rescuing a woman from her burning home in Springfield, Missouri, on October 20.

At least 46 people died in an apartment building fire in Taiwan’s Kaohsiung city on Thursday after firefighters struggled to extinguish the blaze due to the 40-year-old building’s “dilapidated” structure, Taiwan News reported.

A fire-damaged television mast came crashing down after it was determined the huge tower was beyond repair following a mystery blaze.

A fire broke out Friday morning at a hospital in Romania´s port city of Constanta, leaving at least nine people dead, authorities said.

Police in Houston, Texas, are looking for a 19-year-old woman who has been accused of setting a man on fire in Kingwood.

Rescue teams in Germany continued searching for missing workers at an industrial park where an explosion killed at least two people.

An explosion at an industrial park for chemical companies shook the German city of Leverkusen on Tuesday, sending a large black cloud rising into the air. At least 16 people were injured and five remain missing.

A fire ripped through the Chinese coronavirus ward of a hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq, on Monday, killing at least 92 people, Iraq’s state news agency reported Tuesday.

A state police officer received the Michigan State Police Bravery Award on Monday in light of his off-duty efforts to rescue an unconscious man from a burning semi-truck.

A police officer in Marietta, Oklahoma, rescued a sleeping man on Monday when a semi-truck he was parked close to went up in flames.