A house fire Sunday afternoon killed a 5-year-old daughter of a firefighter and injured three.
Lansing police said they got the fire call at 4:36 p.m. at 1005 N. 8th Street and said their preliminary investigation show that the girl might have been playing with a candle in a bedroom. While the family was watching TV, they began to smell smoke.
A sheriff's dispatcher says fires have struck two more rural east Texas churches, just hours after investigators announced that a blaze last week marked the eighth arson against a house of worship in the state this year.
A Smith County sheriff's dispatcher says fire struck a Baptist church near Tyler Monday night. Another hit a church about 3 miles away.
New Orleans' responders are used to parties, but Sunday's was unlike any other.
NEW ORLEANS, La. -- EMS crews here are used to parties, but the one Sunday night following the Saints' Super Bowl victory will go down as one of the largest ever.
Anticipating a massive crowd, additional EMS crews were assigned to the area, said Jeb Tate, New Orleans EMS spokesman.
The AP says several suits contain inconsistencies or exaggerations.
NEW YORK --
As the first cases in a massive battle over illnesses linked to 9/11 near trial, an Associated Press investigation has found that several of the initial 30 suits contain inconsistent or exaggerated claims about how the workers got sick or how much time they spent at ground zero.
A hero mom herded her children out of a burning Bronx building yesterday, then darted back inside the inferno to warn neighbors and try to save her husband, witnesses said.
Rosa Nuñez, 34, was found unconscious by firefighters in her sec ond-floor apartment just feet from her hus band, who was also overcome by smoke.
SHARON, Pa. -- A family was left homeless and a firefighter was injured Sunday morning by a house fire in Sharon.
The exact cause of the fire at 127 Second Ave. wasn't clear, but firefighters said it started near a wood stove in the living room of the two-story house and spread to two upstairs bedrooms and the attic.
About 18 Fairfax County firefighters were asleep in their bunks when the roof of their firehouse partially collapsed under more than two feet of snow early this morning, according to WTTG-TV.
A portion of the roof of the Bailey's Crossroads station fell in around 3 a.m., waking the firefighters.
Department Spokesman Dan Schmidt told the station that everyone was able to get out safely, but the fire engine, fire truck and medic units inside were damaged.
When Huntington Manor firefighters rushed into the burning home at 1 Sandra Ct. in Huntington Station, they found a near-lifeless cat lying atop a central staircase.
Franklin, a black-and-white kitty with bright green eyes, had inhaled enough smoke from the Saturday night fire that he'd stopped breathing, Lt. John Damico said Sunday.
"The cat was pretty much unconscious," Damico said. "It wasn't looking good."
A firefighter was seriously injured after a fire appliance rolled onto him at the scene of a road accident.
Five people were reported to be trapped when a car overturned outside the Castell-y-bwch Inn, in Henllys, near Cwmbran, at 3.45am on Saturday. All five had safely got out of the vehicle when fire crews from Cwmbran and Malpas arrived.
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