BOWLING GREEN, Ky.—A fire has caused heavy damage Friday morning to a building that houses the Bowling Green office of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) as well as a local law firm. Fire crews were called to the building on State Street around 2 a.m. Friday and found a heavy blaze that required additional units,…

A fire broke out at Dow’s Plaquemine chemical facility in Louisiana, the U.S. chemical maker said in a statement late on Friday. Everyone at the facility was accounted for and the fire was being managed by the company’s Emergency Operations Center, Dow Louisiana said in a statement posted on Facebook, adding that they were in…

LAHORE, Pakistan—A fire swept through a house in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore before dawn Wednesday, killing six children and four adults mostly of the same family, police and rescue officials said. Two women, two men, and six children between 6 and 16 years old lost their lives, deputy inspector-general of police in Lahore, Ali…

NEWARK, N.J.—Crews extinguished the intensely burning fire aboard a cargo ship docked in New Jersey after nearly a week and are now beginning their investigation into the blaze that killed two firefighters, officials said Tuesday. “We can officially declare the fire is out,” Coast Guard Capt. Zeita Merchant, the captain of the Port of New…

NEWARK, N.J.—A cargo ship docked at the East Coast’s biggest port smoldered for a third day and will likely burn for several more after the fire claimed the lives of two New Jersey firefighters, officials said Friday, acknowledging that they’ll be discussing how first responders are trained. What caused the fire aboard the Grande Costa…

MILAN—An overnight fire in a retirement home in Milan killed six people and injured around 80, including three who are in a critical condition, Italian authorities said on Friday. The fire started in a first-floor room of the facility. It was put out quickly and did not spread to the rest of the building, yet…

NEWARK, N.J.—Two firefighters were killed battling a blaze that began when cars caught fire deep inside a cargo ship carrying 5,000 cars at a New Jersey port, Newark’s fire chief said Thursday. Responding firefighters found five to seven vehicles already on fire when they reached the 10th floor of the cargo ship at Port Newark…

Fire brigade chiefs are warning people of the danger posed by lithium ion batteries after a fire—which has been blamed on an e-bike—killed a woman and two young children. Gemma Germeney, 31, died in the fire in Cambridge in the early hours of Friday and her children, Lilly Peden, 8, and Oliver Peden, 4, were…

Another church has burned in northern Alberta. St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Lac La Biche was gutted by fire early in the morning of July 1. The call came in around 6:30 a.m. on Canada Day. Lac La Biche RCMP said in a news release that “the church sustained significant damage inside and out.” While…

NEW YORK—An electrical fire in a transformer that serves the Tiffany & Co. store on New York’s Fifth Avenue spewed thick gray smoke from under the iconic building on Thursday and caused two minor injuries, officials said. The fire did not spread to the store itself, but firefighters evacuated about 100 people from the building…