Fire Engineering

A view of the fire damaged orphanage in Mohammedia, near Algiers, Algeria, Thursday, July 16, 2026. (AP Photo) ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A fire at an orphanage near the Algerian capital on Thursday killed 11 children and injured 19 others, authorities said. Algeria’s Civil Protection agency said the fire broke out around 3:30 a.m. at the two-story childcare institution in Mohammedia, in the eastern suburbs of Algiers.

A San Francisco Fire Department vessel passes the city skyline while searching for missing victims after a boat accident near Alcatraz Island off San Francisco, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. Coast Guard crews suspended their search late Wednesday for three people missing a day after a boat capsized in the cold, choppy waters of San Francisco Bay while carrying 20 family members and friends who went out to scatter the ashes of a loved one.

Emergency personnel respond to a hazardous material call on Phillips Avenue in Toledo, Ohio, on Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (Alex Bracken/The Blade via AP) By JOHN RABY Associated Press The presence of carbon monoxide was confirmed in a parked vehicle in Toledo, Ohio, where five people were found unresponsive and three of them died Wednesday in what an official described as an accident.

Members of the Boerne Fire Dept. prepare to perform a water rescue on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, in Boerne, Texas. (AP Photo/Darren Abate) By JESSE BEDAYN and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Widening evacuation warnings and high-water rescues in Texas mounted Wednesday under relentlessly heavy storms that turned roads into rivers, washed away vehicles and spun up a tornado across a busy interstate in San Antonio.

Kevin Cole – Omaha World-Herald, Neb. A fire Tuesday night in the vacant clubhouse of the former Sunset Valley Country Club left the building in southwest Omaha a complete loss. “The front of the building actually doesn’t look too bad,” Battalion Chief Kurt Theiler of the Omaha Fire Department said Wednesday. “When you look at the back of building, you will see it is totally collapsed.

Joshua Lynch – The Virginian-Pilot NORFOLK — A fire aboard a barge in Norfolk’s Lambert’s Point area was extinguished Wednesday evening after a multiagency response involving Norfolk Fire-Rescue, Hampton Fire Rescue and the U.S. Coast Guard. Norfolk Fire-Rescue said crews were dispatched around 5:43 p.m. after receiving reports of a barge on fire along the downtown waterfront. Due to the vessel not being accessible from land, firefighters battled the blaze from the water.

Kai Uyehara – The Seattle Times A warehouse was destroyed in a large fire south of Sodo on Wednesday morning, the Seattle Fire Department said. Fifteen fire engines, seven ladder trucks and 115 personnel were among those responding to the fire. Just before 1 a.m., 911 callers reported a fire at a commercial warehouse in the 4500 block of Seventh Avenue South, the department said.

Posted: Jul 15, 2026 Slug: PG-Longtime-Pittsburgh-fire-Chief-Darryl-Jones-to-ret Megan Guza Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (TNS) Pittsburgh leaders said Wednesday that fire Chief Darryl Jones — who has been on leave amid an internal investigation for more than a month — will retire effective Sept. 16. The press release came from Mayor Corey O’Connor’s office and did not include a statement from the now-outgoing fire chief.

Photos of damaged scooters after a 2025 fire in the Bronx that fire marshals linked to a lithium-ion battery. Photo courtesy the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) PIO. On October 2, 2023, an electric skateboard burst into flames outside a classroom at the University of Notre Dame. The cause of the fire was confirmed by investigators to be thermal runaway. Thermal runaway is the process in which the electrolyte barrier in the battery leaks, vaporizes, or is otherwise compromised.

Olivia Stevens – Daily Southtown (Tinley Park, Ill.) A 10-year-old girl has died after a two-story apartment fire Monday night on the 2900 Block of Bernice Road in Lansing, fire officials said. The child, identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as 10-year-old Braelyn Stewart of Dolton, was taken to Munster Community Hospital before being transferred to Comer Children’s Hospital in Chicago, where she was pronounced dead at 4:18 p.m. Tuesday.