News on Fires

A former co-owner of a Rhode Island nightclub where a fire killed 100 people was released from prison Thursday after earning time off for good behavior. Michael Derderian, who was initially due out this fall, said that his time in prison was difficult but that others have suffered worse. He said in a statement that he plans to contribute to a nonprofit fund he started with his brother and fellow club-owner, Jeffrey, to raise money ...

Like the house across the street gone missing and the one at the corner stripped of its front door, the weathered brown bungalow at 1430 Jane Ave. bided its time, edging nearer to a meeting with a wrecking crew. But in a city with more than 1,000 abandoned homes slated for demolition, it would have to wait its turn. Until, at 8:15 a.m. Oct. 8, the little house jumped the line ...

Red-faced firefighters doused burning passions on Friday, stamping out an early morning blaze at a swingers' club on Montreal's northeast side, the fire department said. At 6:30 a.m. local time (1030 GMT), fire crews rescued 10 employees and patrons of Auberge 1082, who had been carousing and flirting inside the establishment before real sparks started flying. Five people escaped in bed sheets from a second floor of the burning building, down a fire truck ladder. Naked, or barely-clad in borrowed towels, they watched from the street for ...

A hearing-impaired man is crediting his service dog with saving his life from a fire. Darrin Weeks said his dog Roscoe jumped on the bed Sunday to wake him after a fire broke out in the building of his Orlando duplex. Weeks ran next door, awoke his neighbor and pulled him out of the fire. Weeks was not injured in the blaze, although emergency crews treated his neighbor for smoke inhalation. The fire is ...