Flames

A runway crash between an airliner and a coast guard plane on a Tokyo runway led to a dramatic evacuation of 379 passengers before the plane burned up.

Canadian NHL teams face a squeeze on and off the ice.

A small plane plunged into a Florida mobile home park, churning up flames and a column of black smoke, and authorities said they rushed to check for an “unknown number of victims” in the chaotic aftermath

Two firefighters who saved two residents from a burning apartment complex in Kansas City were killed when a wall collapsed onto them after they had evacuated the building

Northern California wildfires destroy nearly 1,600 homes

A Sierra Nevada fire claimed an additional 250 homes, bringing the total to 503, California fire officials said Saturday after making new assessments

The death toll is now five from a pair of the most destructive wildfires in recent years in California

The caretaker of a woman found dead in the ruins of her home that was destroyed by a wildfire said Monday the woman had advanced multiple sclerosis and had no way to get out

Some 400 homes were among the hundreds of structures destroyed as fast-moving wildfires raged through communities in Northern California

Firefighters were holding their own against the largest wildfire on record in Washington state, even as rising temperatures and increased winds stoked the flames

Wildfires rampaged across the drought-choked West on Thursday as authorities scrambled for resources to beat back the flames

A runway crash between an airliner and a coast guard plane on a Tokyo runway led to a dramatic evacuation of 379 passengers before the plane burned up.

Canadian NHL teams face a squeeze on and off the ice.

A small plane plunged into a Florida mobile home park, churning up flames and a column of black smoke, and authorities said they rushed to check for an “unknown number of victims” in the chaotic aftermath

Two firefighters who saved two residents from a burning apartment complex in Kansas City were killed when a wall collapsed onto them after they had evacuated the building

Northern California wildfires destroy nearly 1,600 homes

A Sierra Nevada fire claimed an additional 250 homes, bringing the total to 503, California fire officials said Saturday after making new assessments

The death toll is now five from a pair of the most destructive wildfires in recent years in California

The caretaker of a woman found dead in the ruins of her home that was destroyed by a wildfire said Monday the woman had advanced multiple sclerosis and had no way to get out

Some 400 homes were among the hundreds of structures destroyed as fast-moving wildfires raged through communities in Northern California

Firefighters were holding their own against the largest wildfire on record in Washington state, even as rising temperatures and increased winds stoked the flames

Wildfires rampaged across the drought-choked West on Thursday as authorities scrambled for resources to beat back the flames