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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.

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.

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.

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.

A wildfire consumed an entire village in the Canadian province of British Columbia on Thursday after the small town recorded Canada’s highest-ever temperature of 121.2º Fahrenheit earlier this week, the Vancouver Sun reported on Friday.

Dozens of firefighters tackled a blaze at a London station Monday, which seems to have taken hold in tunnels next to a major redevelopment.

Elizabeth and Jake Landuyt said their wedding day was like something out of a dream, that is until the unthinkable happened.

The student government at Rutgers Law School has backed down on its requirement for student groups to promote Critical Race Theory in order to receive funding, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

The student government at Rutgers Law School is telling student groups they must promote Critical Race Theory or lose funding, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

A cat jumped from a window during an apartment fire recently in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago and survived the landing.

A driver suffered burns and his car was destroyed following an accident involving a cigarette and hand sanitizer in Maryland on Thursday.

The University of San Diego (USD) has ended its investigation into a professor who criticized the Chinese government in a blog post. Campus free speech organization FIRE commented: “Although USD’s investigation into Smith should never have begun, FIRE applauds USD for ending the investigation and coming to the correct conclusion: Faculty cannot be punished for protected expression just because some may be offended.”

Protests broke out across Iraq on Sunday to denounce the Iraqi government’s alleged “mismanagement and corruption,” which many Iraqis say they blame for a hospital fire on Saturday in Baghdad that killed at least 82 people and injured an additional 112.

A wildfire that began on the slopes of Table Mountain reached the mountainside campus of the University of Cape Town on Sunday, damaging several buildings on campus, including a library that housed rare and irreplaceable African books.

The Maricopa County Community College District is paying a $155,000 settlement to Scottsdale Community College (SCC) professor Nicholas Damask, whose quiz questions about terrorism offended Muslims.

An equine rescue in South Carolina caught fire this weekend, completely destroying its barn and seriously injuring a horse. Now, the community is helping the rescue rebuild from the ground up.

Jared Lloyd’s body was recovered the day after a deadly blaze gutted a New York assisted living facility.

One resident is dead and a firefighter missing after a fire broke out at an assisted living facility in Rockland County, New York, on Tuesday.