When an older house fails an energy inspection, the report usually blames drafty windows or a tired furnace. The real culprit is more often a web of hidden flaws inside walls, attics, and electrical ...

Electrician in Decatur Releases Safety Advisory as Heating Season Strains Aging Electrical Systems DECATUR, GA, UNITED ...

Old houses sell on charm, but the breaker panel in the basement is not charming at all, it is life-safety hardware that ...

A Tuesday fire at Marathon Petroleum's 665,000 b/d Galveston Bay, Texas, refinery's alkylation unit has been extinguished, the company told the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Marathon said ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — One person is dead and another was hospitalized after a fire at multiple duplex homes early Sunday, according to Newport News Fire officials. We're told fire crews recieved a call ...

A fire at Green Mountain Elementary School Wednesday morning cancelled school for the day. Central Kitsap Fire & Rescue announced in a statement Jan. 7 they received a call for a commercial structure ...

Firefighters responded early Tuesday to a fire in an apartment unit on the 100 block of North Kellogg Avenue in Goleta. A resident and a dog were displaced by the blaze. Credit: Santa Barbara County ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — A suspect was arrested Tuesday in alleged connection a fatal fire that left a 32-year-old woman dead. Makayla Rembert was killed in a fire in the 1200 block of 16th Street ...

DALLAS — Firefighters instructed an apartment tenant to put out his balcony fire pit less than two weeks before a fire that began on the same balcony destroyed a 30-unit apartment building, Dallas ...

MOSCOW, Idaho -- A rooftop HVAC unit caused a fire at a business on South Main Street in Moscow Sunday morning. The fire was reported just after 8:30 a.m. When firefighters arrived, they were able to ...

The Oct. 26 fire in a self-storage unit that killed a 24-year-old woman in Reading’s 18th Ward was determined to be accidental, city Fire Marshal Jeremy Searfoss said Thursday. The fire marshal’s ...

CAMPBELL, Mo. (WSIL) -- A Campbell man is facing an arson charge in connection to a church which caught fire recently. Online court records show Derrick Rice faces a 2nd degree Arson charge and was ...