Watch a number of videos from a fire that broke out earlier today in the Hollywood Hills near Griffith Park and the famed Hollywood sign. picked by indierockcafe 2 years ago

I guess when you're a firefighter in a small town you have to start your own fires. picked by civicracer18c1 2 years ago

Archaeologists excavating a sprawling prehistoric fortress in southern Greece have discovered a secret underground passage thought to have supplied the site with water in times of danger. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Archaeologists recently excavated residential sites of human settlement in early New Stone Age (9,000 to 8,000 years ago) in the Peiligang Cultural layer of Tang Period at 13 kilometers south Xinzheng City picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A fire truck responding to a house fire on Olive Street in Elyria early this morning lost its rear axle and gas tank on Broad Street near East Bridge .
The Firefighters on the truck were all able to escape without injury. picked by TraumaMamma 1 year ago

According to court documents, the woman told police that Hart held her against her will, threatened her with a knife, choked her, threw lighter fluid on her and lit her on fire. He then lit the couple’s bed on fire, destroying some of her personal belongings. picked by muppet 5 months ago

Fire officials in Clearwater, Fla., say a heroic cat that helped its owner escape a fire did not make it out of the burning mobile home alive. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Wasabi, or Japanese Horseradish, has a particularly pungent taste and scent. Now researchers in Japan are using Wasabi's overpowering odor in a new type of smoke detector / fire alarm that wakes the deaf through scent instead of sound. picked by Mitzuzake 7 months ago

Archeologists have succeeded in discovering a prehistoric site most probably dating back to Copper and Stone Ages in the vicinity of Galabar reservoir in Zanjan province. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A man can be expert in nothing, but he must be practiced in many things. Skills. You don't have to master them all at once. You simply have to collect and develop a certain number of skills as the years tick by.

meh, 1 out of 75 ain't all bad. picked by doggylives 5 months ago

According to reports from the Southern Area Coordination Center, the Sweat Farm Road Fire in southern Georgia exploded from 1,000 acres to more than 20,000 acres in less than 24 hours between April 16 and 17, 2007. Strong winds whipped the blaze into 100-foot flames, while individual trees went up like torches. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Most of a downtown block in Toronto was gutted by fire last week. Early rumors suggested it might've been an explosion in a meth-lab. The Fire Chief extinguished that theory, but other reasons for the disaster may be weeks or months away. picked by jago 7 months ago

It seems that Neanderthals were just as fond of whooping it up on rollercoasters as us 21st centurions. At least, that's the message in THQ Wireless' upcoming game, Prehistoric Fun Park. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

The discovery of an extraordinary dinosaur "mummy" has dramatically increased our understanding of the creatures. The fossil is so well preserved that scientists have been able to reconstruct its powerful muscles, work out how fast it could run and, for the first time, form an idea of what dinosaurs actually looked like. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

Some experts hope that the perfect condition in which the body of the mammoth was found could allow extricate intact DNA from his cells, and, as a result, clone the animal in future. picked by JDRucker 6 months ago

A teenage couple having sex for the first time were interrupted when candles set fire to the girl's attic bedroom and forced them to flee naked from her parents' house. That'll kill the mood, for sure. picked by misswinkle 1 year ago

The first vegetables preserved with either the acetic vinegar or salted brine were probably cucumbers, brought to Mesopotamia from India in 2500 B.C. picked by suebe 1 year ago

A sicko set a cat on fire in East Boston, and then used the burning, screeching animal as a live Molotov cocktail, chucking it at the window of a house, a crime that investigators believe could be connected to gang violence. picked by suebe 1 year ago

Would would happen if everything that was fire was made from water? OK, it's slightly scientifically impossible - but that doesn't stop amazing photoshops, does it? picked by TheStep 1 year ago

Ouch!!! picked by suebe 1 year ago