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

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.

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 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.

A suspect faces charges for allegedly setting a homeless person, who is well known in Chicago as the “Walking Man,” on fire Wednesday.

Police in Chicago are looking for a suspect who set fire to a 75-year-old homeless man, widely known as “Walking Dude,” early Wednesday.

A nine-year-old is recovering thanks to the deputies who saved his life in Seffner, Florida, on Friday, and citizens are praising his rescuers.

A Tibet Airlines jet caught fire moments before it was scheduled to lift off on Thursday at an airport in China’s Chongqing city, causing injury to more than 40 passengers as they evacuated the aircraft, Xinhua News Agency reported.

A pit bull puppy named Loki that was rescued from a Sacramento debris fire earlier this month has found its forever home with a firefighter.

A deputy in Florida scaled an apartment building to save a one-year-old girl from a fire on Saturday, and citizens are praising his bravery.

A Colorado man who set himself on fire outside of the Supreme Court on Earth Day has died from his injuries, police said. 

An alleged serial criminal has been charged with arson for a fire at a California Home Depot that caused $17 million in damages, prosecutors say.

Haitians protesting against a recent spike in crime in the Haitian city of Les Cayes on Tuesday stormed a local airport and burned a small jet owned by a U.S.-based Christian missionary group, Reuters reported.

Students at Triad Math and Science Academy in Greensboro, North Carolina, were told Thursday that among them was a hero who helped prevent a tragedy.

A five-year-old New Hampshire boy alerted his parents to a fire on their property, allowing the family to evacuate and save their animals.

A father dropped his child into the arms of first responders when a fire broke out at an apartment building in New Jersey and citizens are praising the crews’ efforts.

Police officers saved an individual trapped by a fire in Dunwoody, Georgia, on Sunday, and citizens are praising their efforts.

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

A suspect in Memphis, Tennessee, was taken into custody after he allegedly tried to set a local hospital and police officers on fire over the weekend.

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.