Tomorra Watts is grateful she walked over to her brother’s house for a cigarette Saturday afternoon in their Roseland neighborhood. After chatting with him, she stepped outside and spotted a fire ...

TRENTON – Preliminary reports on last night's two-alarm house fire that left two firefighters with minor injuries after a backdraft ripped through a burning house indicate that firefighters followed ...

As depicted in a 1991 Hollywood thriller, a backdraft is a serious matter if a fire ever breaks out inside a building. Fire needs oxygen to burn and actually sucks air toward it, creating a windstorm ...

On June 14, 2006 at 04:57 hours the Beaver Falls Fire Department was dispatched to a reported dwelling fire at 2430 Eighth Avenue. Engine 11 Tower 11 and Rescue 11 responded. Upon arrival, Chief 11-10 ...

Two firefighters were taken to a hospital after a small explosion while they were battling a fire on Wednesday morning in Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Fire Department was called to the 1800 block of ...

A phenomenon known as a backdraft may have produced the explosive noise reported at a Regina home where a fire Thursday sent several people to hospital. The fire broke out late Thursday afternoon. A ...

A burning house in Arkansas exploded as firefighters fought the blaze, but no one was injured in the blast that thrust insulation into the air like confetti.