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Arson may have sparked the fire that burned through 1,000 acres of brush and forced evacuations on Long Island last month, officials said Thursday.

A day after Lt. Rich Nappi was killed battling a three-alarm blaze in Brooklyn, the 47-year-old father of two was remembered by his fellow firefighters as a "tireless worker" and a "family man."

The FDNY says a 2-alarm fire in Central Park is under control. The fire began in a log and mulch pile in the park this afternoon.

A deadly fire ripped through a prison in Honduras this week. The incident has left families despondent and confused about the cause. Some blame it on a prison riot, others say an inmate set a mattress on fire. How the government responds and who takes responsibility is the next question. This report comes from out partner the BBC.

A devastating blaze in Fire Island Pines that took hundreds of firefighters nearly a day to bring under control destroyed most of the resort's summer businesses.

A two-alarm fire in the basement of the Montefiore Medical Center Thursday afternoon forced hospital workers to move 170 patients from two intensive care units and two emergency rooms to unaffected areas of the building, according to a hospital spokesperson.

Sewage from a Harlem waste water treatment plant damaged in a fire continued to seep into the Hudson River Thursday — causing officials to caution swimmers and boaters to stay out of the water through the weekend and raising the specter of beach closures.

This summer wildfires have raged in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, as well as throughout the country, and so far over 5,800,000 acres have burned this year alone. Ken Frederick and Tom Romanello, Bureau of Land Management fire specialists at the National Interagency Fire Center, explain how wild fires start and spread, how they behave, and how they’re contained and extinguished. We’ll also find out why there seem to be so many this year, and what happens to an area after a fire.

Call us at 646-829-3985 to ask a question about fires, or leave a comment!

Officials are investigating the cause of a four-alarm fire at a Manhattan synagogue that blanketed blocks of the Upper East Side in smoke last night.

A fire that broke out at Rikers Island on Sunday and injured four firefighters has forced 241 inmates to relocate to different parts of the facility, according to the city's Department of Corrections.

11,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where a wildfire has burned more than 110 square miles of land since Sunday. On Wednesday, crews began to burn a blaze to act as a barrier. The new fires are meant to protect the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where 10,000 drums—each containing 55 gallons of radioactive waste—are stored above ground.

Eastern Arizona has seen close to 3,000 of its residents displaced due to an out-of-control wild fire in the mountains along the New Mexico border, that has been ablaze for more than 10 days now. 

One hundred years ago this month, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire killed 146 people - mostly immigrant women and girls - and ushered in a new era of worker rights. A new film about the fire called “Triangle: Remembering the Fire,” debuts Monday on HBO. We talk with the film's director, Daphne Pinkerson.

A transformer fire broke out at a Con Edison substation in the East Village this afternoon.

A fatal five-alarm fire that tore through a Flatbush, Brooklyn, apartment building last Saturday was caused by candles used in a voodoo ceremony, according to a FDNY officials.

Self-immolation is the act of committing suicide by setting oneself on fire, and there has been a flurry of this suicidal act happening in the Arab world in the past couple of weeks. Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest in Tunisia last month, which led to a revolt in the country. And yesterday, an Egyptian protestor set himself on fire, according to Egyptian officials. This recent event follows a slew of other self-immolations in Egypt, Algeria, and Mauritania.