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The "very disturbing" fire is causing plumes of smoke to blow across Preston city centre.

The wildfire started in Kingsville near King Ranch Thursday afternoon.

Across North America, wildfire crews are gearing up for a particularly difficult season.

Firefighters in the Cy-Fair area are warning residents of a controlled fire caused by a burning lithium generator.

Strong winds expected to stoke the fire, which has already torn through an area larger than Chicago.

Two children died at the hospital after a fire broke out inside a two-story home in Galveston early Saturday, firefighters said.

A woman is recovering after a mobile home fire in east Harris County Monday, officials with the Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office said.

If you see smoke near Sylvan Rodriquez Park Monday, don’t be alarmed.

Several units were damaged Sunday in a two-alarm fire at southwest Houston apartment complex.

Brownsville Fire Chief Jarrett Sheldon told The Brownsville Herald that about 8-10 units at Lakeside Apartments were “heavily damaged by the fire.”

At least three people were injured after a fire broke out at Prairie View A&M dorm building, according to the university housing.

Firefighters with the Houston Fire Department are working to put out a blaze at an apartment complex in Clear Lake Tuesday, officials said.

Houston firefighters battled a two-alarm fire at a shopping center in southwest Houston Monday, officials said.

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Fire officials in northwest Harris County are investigating the cause of a house fire that left a family without a home on Sunday.

Greek authorities say a man who was seriously injured in a fire that broke out in the COVID-19 ward of a hospital in northern Greece has died of his injuries.

Two men and an elderly woman were injured in a house fire that happened in Seabrook Monday, firefighters said.

Big changes are happening for the American Legion Post 490 on Galveston Road near Ellington Airport, in Southeast Houston. The post caught on fire last year and since then the Commander and people in the community have been working on a new plan.

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Waleed Alrashid spent Monday thinking about the horses that couldn’t be saved from the fire that ruined one of his barns.

Nearly 20,000 people who were forced to flee a wildfire in northern Colorado are back home after firefighters were able to stop the spread of the fire at 190 acres.

Fire crews in Central Texas are struggling to contain massive, windswept wildfires that have burned homes, destroyed a church and left a local sheriff’s deputy dead.

One person is dead after firefighters with Houston Fire Department said a townhome caught on fire Thursday afternoon.

A resident is in the hospital and several units are damaged after a fire at an apartment complex in southeast Houston Wednesday, officials said.

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Large flames and smoke can be seen billowing out of the 17th floor of the high-rise building.

A large fire in Brooks County on Friday has stretched more than 300 acres wide and is prompting residents and motorists in the area to take caution, according to authorities. The Falfurrias Police Department said via Facebook that the fire was spotted near the Ranchito Road area. The Texas A&M Forest Service is among several agencies who have responded to the call and is assisting officials in Brooks County with the blaze. The forest service said via Twitter that 50% of the fire had been contained as of 6:20 p.m., with the help of a ground crew and aircraft. According to Edinburg Fire Chief Shawn Snider, his department and other Hidalgo County agencies, such as the Weslaco and McAllen fire departments in addition to all Precinct 4 agencies, are responding to help extinguish the fire.

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A firefighter has been released from the hospital after he was injured while working to put out a multi-structure, two-alarm fire that affected multiple homes in greater Third Ward Wednesday, officials said.

Nine workers who were trapped on a burning rig in Sabine Pass were rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

An extra-alarm fire is burning Wednesday afternoon on the Northwest Side.

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The extra-alarm blaze in the 4300 block of North Richmond Street in Albany Park required about 150 firefighters and 50 vehicles and it still wasn't under control around 8 a.m., officials said.

Several firefighters worked to put out a blaze at a popular bar and historic tourist attraction in Old Town Spring Sunday, officials said.

Several families were displaced Thursday after a three-alarm fire swept through an apartment complex in west Houston, authorities said.

Firefighters are battling a blaze Thursday at the famed Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township.

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Officials with the Houston Fire Department are investigating after a man died in a house fire on Houston’s south side Tuesday.

Firefighters responded to a large fire at townhomes in north Harris County Monday afternoon, according to the Spring Fire Department.

Firefighters battled a blaze that destroyed a tent company in Galveston Sunday morning.

Firefighters battled an apparent fire at a church building in the downtown Houston area Monday morning.

The Chicago Fire’s search for a new, 30-acre training facility in the city has taken the soccer club to the Near West Side after previous plans to build in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood fell through.

A man has been arrested and charged after deputies say he started a house fire in order to cover up his mother-in-law’s murder.

A massive fire forced residents out of their homes at a north Houston apartment complex Sunday.

Firefighters responded to a house fire Friday afternoon in a southwest Houston neighborhood.

A man died after fires crews pulled him from a burning home in north Houston Monday afternoon, authorities said.

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Arlington Heights Police and Fire departments responded to the fire about 12:20 a.m. Jan. 7 in the 400 block of West Rand Road. Police arrested the man after he made comments about the fire, the police department said in a news release.

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Officials said they are investigating a massive fire at a plastics plant in Wharton County Sunday.

The president and first lady toured a damaged neighborhood and met with families who suffered losses in the Marshall fire.

Investigators said they are working to find out what caused a massive fire that destroyed more than a dozen boats near Lake Conroe.

Firefighters are investigating what caused a two-alarm fire at a vacant building on the North Freeway Monday morning.

Large flames and a huge column of smoke could be seen coming out of the building on Sunday morning.

Three people were hospitalized early Friday after their Harris County home caught fire.

People living near the Exxon Mobil Baytown Olefins Plant saw the fire and smoke. They also said they felt what they thought was an explosion at around 1 a.m.

ExxonMobil’s Baytown Complex extinguished the fire that injured four people Thursday morning.

A 2-year-old boy died Tuesday after the house he was in caught fire in the West Pullman neighborhood, a Chicago Fire Department spokesman said.

Just days before Christmas, several families have been displaced after a major fire at an apartment complex in east Houston, firefighters say.

A man was seen with a bag leaking liquid that ignited, charring the 4th floor clinic in a building that may only have had one escape route, leaving many people trapped.

Police are looking into the possibility that the blaze was deliberately started, say local media.

Japan’s NHK says a fire broke out in a building in Osaka in western Japan and 27 people are feared dead

Dozens of people are trapped on the rooftop of a Hong Kong skyscraper after a major fire broke out, as firefighters rush to rescue them and put out the blaze

The fire — categorized as a level three incident on a scale of one to five — was "largely put out" at 4.30pm local time, the government said on Wednesday

Firefighters with Houston Fire Department responded to a house fire near the Memorial Park area.

A driver is dead after a fiery 18-wheeler crash on Hardy Toll Road inbound at Aldine Bender, deputies said.

A storage unit caught fire in west Laredo, according to first responders.

An early morning fire left several families in southwest Houston homeless on Thanksgiving Day.

Oak Park firefighters had been on the scene of an extra-alarm commercial fire on Lake Street since about 9:40 a.m. Tuesday.

A fire that broke out at the Texas Renaissance Festival grounds in Grimes County Monday night will not impact this weekend’s final events, a spokesperson said.

The Houston Fire Department is working to put out a large fire at a furniture warehouse in northwest Houston.

Houston firefighters are working to put out a two-alarm fire at a southwest Houston apartment complex Friday.

Residents are warned to keep their windows closed due to smoke spreading over the area.

McAllen firefighters are trying to put out a “large” fire that has caused roadway closures along Business 83, according to a news release the city sent shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday. City officials asked motorists to avoid the area of 26th Street and Business 83 until further notice as McAllen fire crews work to extinguish the large fire. “Currently, Business 83 is shut down to traffic from 23rd Street to 29th Street,” city officials said. “McAllen fire and McAllen police are on the scene and have the situation under control.”City officials did not provide further information about the cause of the fire or if it is threatening any structures. Check back later for more information on this developing story.

Houston firefighters are investigating a two-alarm fire that broke out at an apartment complex in southwest Houston Sunday morning.

Firefighters with the Pasadena Fire Department and Houston Fire Department worked to put out a blaze at an apartment complex located in Pasadena, officials said Tuesday.

Police in western India say 11 patients have died after a fire broke out in a hospital’s COVID-19 ward.

On the Greek island of Evia last summer an intense conflagration took almost two weeks to control.

Firefighters are battling a fire at a funeral home in Bay City, near Matagorda Bay.

At least one person died after jumping from the 19th floor to escape a fire that engulfed a 61-story luxury apartment building in Mumbai in western India on Friday, a fire official said. Television images showed heavy black smoke billowing into the sky from the 19th floor apartment on Curry Road in south Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital. Kailash Aggarwal, the building owner, said there are 400 apartments in the building and all residents were accounted for.

A family in Fort Bend County is trying to rebuild their lives after a fire destroyed their home.

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Experts say there is a lot to learn from the state's second-largest fire, including how it spread — and how firefighters stopped it.

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A vehicle caught on fire in central Laredo, first responders said.

Authorities in North Macedonia say forensic experts have identified the 14 victims of a fire in a COVID-19 field hospital as 12 patients and two visiting relatives

Experts warn that the fire could destroy thousands of structures and put lives at risk in the next few days.

More than 17,000 structures remain under threat from the blaze, which is 5% contained.

Oregon’s Bootleg fire has offered new evidence that Indigenous techniques can change how megafires behave Smoke from the Bootleg fire billows near Sycan Marsh in Oregon. Photograph: US Forest Service/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock The Bootleg fire stampeded through southern Oregon so fiercely that it spit up thunderclouds. But when the flames approached the Sycan Marsh Preserve, a 30,000-acre wetland thick with ponderosa pines, something incredible happened. The flames weakened and the fire sl

Pillars of billowing smoke and ash are blocking out the sun above Greece’s second-largest island as a days-old wildfire devours pristine forests and triggers more evacuation alerts

A fire inspection report cited the Tesla Model S’s thermal management system and a fault in the electrical system as two possible causes in the fire.

A wildfire that broke out Saturday in western Greece forced the evacuation of four villages and people on a beach by the Fire Service, the Coast Guard and private boats, authorities said. The fire was in a mountain forest 30 kilometers (19 miles) east of Patras, Greece's third-largest city, Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis said late Saturday. Aided by strong winds, the fire raced down the slopes and threatened seaside villages.

Navy officials say they do not believe the sailor intended to destroy the ship, but the blaze he set was whipped by high winds into a towering inferno.

The kind of weather needed to fully contain the Bootleg Fire is not expected in this part of Oregon until the late fall.

At least five people were shot in Gresham Wednesday afternoon, about 12 hours after another shooting that left five people wounded in West Garfield Park.

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The effort began when the manager of a nearby resort walked by the burning building and spotted a crowd outside in wedding attire.

A 40-year-old woman died Saturday morning after a house fire broke out in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.

The fire could last for several days.

An evacuation order was in place Monday in a northern Illinois near Rockford because of a chemical fire large enough to be picked up by weather radar, officials said.