Arson

Electrical problems were to blame for a fire that reportedly killed 13 children at a mosque and religious school in Myanmar, authorities said Tuesday, even as the blaze stirred up suspicions of an attack on Muslims. Yangon regional fire chief Kyi Win...

An early-morning fire on Saturday destroyed a maintenance building on the property of St. Joseph Church in Fullerton, according to church and county fire officials. But church officials said the parish's celebration of Easter services on Sunday would...

NEW HAVEN — Fire Chief Michael Grant listened from the gallery of U.S. District Court on Thursday as a state police investigator testified about a March 2011 fire that killed three people, including an 8-year-old boy. Grant's one ear was turned...

A man was arrested early Thursday on suspicion of setting a homeless woman on fire as she sat at a bus stop in Van Nuys. The suspect allegedly poured an accelerant on the woman as she slept on a bench......

The children of a victim of the 2003 Old Fire in San Bernardino County told the judge who sentenced the convicted arsonist to death Monday that the defendant's actions had destroyed their lives. “It’s still very hard for me to......

A man who along with his wife was seriously injured in a fire early Friday that heavily damaged a home at 19 Beaver Dam Trail has been arrested on several charges, police said. Glenn Alburtus, 60, is charged with second-degree threatening, first-...

Debris from a fireplace likely sparked a Newport Beach roof fire, officials said Monday. The blaze, which was reported at a two-story single family home in the 1800 block of Port Carlow Place about 9:19 p.m. Sunday, caused about $100,000 in damage,...

NILES — Arson is suspected in a pair of house fires this morning that heavily damaged the vacant properties in the 400 block of North Fourth Street in Niles. Niles Fire Chief Larry Lamb labeled the blazes that broke out shortly after 9:30 a.m....

EL CENTRO - Large columns of smoke were seen as county firefighters battled a house fire near South La Brucherie and Jasper roads Tuesday. No injuries were reported during the afternoon fire, but most of the structure affected was consumed by around 2...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Every year, the number of emergency calls fire departments throughout Greene County respond to continues to rise. "Just Battlefield Fire District alone from 2011 to 2012, we saw a 60 percent increase in our call volume, and that's not...

A federal magistrate has recommended the release of a prison inmate serving life without parole for a triple murder arson, ruling the man received a “fundamentally unfair” trial because of his lawyer’s “unprofessional”...

The control box for an air compressor may be to blame for the fire that destroyed the offices at Rod Hatfield’s used car lot Wednesday morning. Winchester Fire-EMS Maj. Greg Beam said it appeared the fire started in a garage bay used for...