BUFFALO, N.Y. — Investigators are now looking into the situation that turned from controlled to chaos in a matter of seconds, with the Buffalo Fire commissioner pointing to a backdraft as the possible ...

Greg Gorbett spends unmeasured hours building scale-model rooms, complete with furniture and fixtures. He then judiciously stacks wood cribbing inside and burns his creations. More often than not, he ...

No one was hurt in the blaze that blew apart the house's attic. — -- A video has captured the terrifying moment when two firefighters were caught in a backdraft as they attempted to put out a ...

This is the terrifying moment that a violent jet of smoke and flames bursts out of a shipping container. The deadly phenomenon, known as a backdraft, is a firefighter's worst nightmare and occurs when ...

Four firefighters were burned in a backdraft that erupted during a blaze Sunday afternoon at a West Side residential building. The fire, in the 4900 block of West Potomac Avenue in the city’s Austin ...

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As temperatures plummet and the days get shorter, staying up late to take care of business is getting harder and harder on our hardest working men and women. Luckily, Fire Dept. Coffee is coming to ...

Boston fire officials say a vicious restaurant fire that claimed the lives of two Boston firefighters and injured 10 others Wednesday night may have been smoldering for at least an hour in a ...

Two firefighters were taken to a hospital after a small explosion while they were battling a fire on Wednesday morning in Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Fire Department was called to the 1800 block of ...

Backdraft” has spectacle, it has stars, it has love, death, pain and lots of fire. But what it needed most was a final draft. The movie, covering a heroic bunch of firefighters in Chicago, seems like ...