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Santa Claus worked with volunteer firefighters in Connecticut to put out a house chimney fire during a parade on Saturday.

A little boy in Plainfield, Illinois, got a huge surprise after only one of his classmates showed up for his birthday party Saturday.

A Nebraska firefighters union is making sure children stay out of the cold this holiday season by handing out hundreds of coats to children in need.

An off-duty firefighter with the Danbury, Connecticut, fire department went above and beyond his call of duty on Sunday to rescue a car crash victim.

MILAN (AP) – Three Italian firefighters were killed early Tuesday in a building explosion that appears to have been deliberate in the north-western region of Piedmont.

Northern California law enforcement is reportedly investigating reports of “fake firefighters” looking to loot homes and businesses in Sonoma County as wildfires continue to burn. 

It took 215 New York City Fire Department (FDNY) firefighters to quell a blaze in a Bronx apartment building on Friday evening.

Twenty-two people were injured when several decks on a three-story building collapsed during a firefighters’ event on Saturday in Wildwood, New Jersey. 

Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service has dropped the children’s animated character Fireman Sam as one of their mascots to stop people feeling “excluded”.

New Zealand firefighters took to the streets of Auckland on Wednesday to offer their own salute to first responders died trying to save others in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorists attacks in New York.

Firefighters in the French department of Vaucluse will now be escorted by police when responding to fires in “sensitive areas” following an attack over the weekend.

Firefighters in the French region of Loire-Atlantique claim they have been attacked by members of the public every day since the start of July.

A team of firefighters in Buffalo, New York, put aside their suits and helmets on Sunday to throw a birthday party for a six-year-old boy whose house burnt down just days before.

A fire caused by a portable battery pack forced a Virgin Atlantic flight to make an emergency landing Thursday after flames began emanating from a passenger seat. The flight, which was en route to London Heathrow from New York’s JFK

Four teenaged boys from Tulsa, Oklahoma, are being hailed as heroes for rushing into a burning home to save the life of their 90-year-old neighbor.

Two small fires were started in southern Israel by balloons carrying incendiary devices from the Gaza Strip on Monday, the local fire department said. The blazes were quickly extinguished by firefighters.

The London Fire Brigade has attacked Peppa Pig, the cartoon famous with little children the world over, for referring to one of the female characters as being dressed as a “fireman.”

Tennessee State Sen. Joey Hensley (R-Hohenwald) is pushing a bill to allow firefighters and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to carry guns while on the clock. 

Have you ever been to an air-consumption class and had a hockey game break out? No? Well it happened.

A UCLA professor argued in a recent article for the Harvard Business Review that too many Americans firefighters are white.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After having the toughest two weeks of his firefighting career, Ken Roberts spent his first night off at one of the NFL’s most anticipated games of the season.

CHICO, Calif. (AP) — With the confirmed death toll at 71 and the list of unaccounted for people more than 1,000, authorities in Northern California on Friday searched for those who perished ahead of a planned visit by President Trump.

(AP) — Authorities have reported seven more fatalities from a blaze in Northern California, bringing the total number of fatalities so far to 63, while the number of missing people jumped to 631.

(AP) — At least 59 people were killed and 300 were unaccounted for a week after the flames swept through parts of California.

(AP) — Authorities have reported eight more fatalities from a blaze in Northern California, bringing the total death toll so far to 56 in the deadliest wildfire in state history.

CHICO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities searching through the aftermath of the Camp Fire have released the names of about 80 people missing.

PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have reported six more fatalities from a blaze in Northern California, bringing the total number of fatalities so far to 48 in the deadliest wildfire in state history.

(AP) — Victims of California’s most destructive wildfire have filed a lawsuit accusing Pacific Gas & Electric Co. of causing the massive blaze.

A landowner near where the blaze began, Betsy Ann Cowley, said PG&E notified her the day before the blaze that crews needed to come onto her property because the utility’s wires were sparking. Investigators have since declared the area a crime scene.

PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have reported 13 more fatalities from a blaze in Northern California that destroyed a town, bringing the total death toll so far to 42 and making it the deadliest wildfire in recorded state history.

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian enlisted the help of private firefighters to battle the deadly Woolsey wildfire threatening their Hidden Hills neighborhood.

The death toll from the wildfire that incinerated Paradise and surrounding areas climbed to 31 — matching the mark for the deadliest single blaze in California history.

A brand new fire erupted along a Southern California highway near the Los Angeles and Ventura county line on Monday. 

Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby on Monday appeared to blame climate change for the deadly Woolsey fire in Southern California and pushed back against President Donald Trump’s criticism of state officials, who he claimed were responsible for the fast-spreading blaze.

Southern California Edison disclosed to officials that a circuit operated by the company malfunctioned minutes prior to the Woosley fire’s eruption. 

(AP) — With hearses standing by, crews stepped up the search for bodies in the ruins of Paradise, and relatives desperately looked for missing loved ones.