UPDATE (7:39 p.m.) - 52,952 acres now burned as of Thursday night according to CAL FIRE then downgraded back to 52,592 a short time later. UPDATE (6:22 p.m.) - The Madre Fire is now 10% contained, ...

A scrapyard fire near the OKC Fairgrounds produced a massive smoke plume visible in downtown Oklahoma City, officials report.

A blaze at a packed bar in the Swiss Alps during New Year's Eve celebrations killed about 40 people and injured 115 others, many of them seriously. Cellphone video captured harrowing images of the ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?