Items Tagged with 'Fire'

A commentary arguing for passage of the Pro Codes Act, which 'needs the support of everyone who wants a fire-safe world.'

Did a Travelers builders’ risk policy cover damage from invisible combustion byproducts? Behind the costly, prolonged legal aftermath of an Alabama arson.

Officials search for cause of blaze that raced up several high-rise apartment buildings, where about 200 residents remain unaccounted for, with investigators looking closely at builders use of construction and scaffold materials and fire-safety practices.

Four people have been sentenced in connection with a deliberately set fire that caused $10 million in damage to the Daniel Beard Bridge connecting Ohio and Kentucky.

Senior PM Nick Pemberton of MATT Construction, with neighbors and colleagues, used borrowed and donated equipment to quickly move pool water to where it was critically needed as the Eaton blaze spread to his Altadena, Calif., neighborhood.

Driving to his office in Avon, Mass., around 7 a.m. on Feb. 7, 2023, John Ballas received a call from his firm’s site supervisor overseeing two projects at Brockton Hospital in Brockton, Mass.

The tower, commissioned in 1979, has been out of use since a new one was commissioned in 2022. 

No one was injured when a small fire broke out during welding of tube steel.

The utility company said two years ago it would bury 10,000 line miles to prevent wildfires, but regulators now balk at proposed rate increases to pay for the work.

Some unrealistic thinking is creeping into the public perception of last month’s devastating Maui, Hawaii, fire.