Dr. Jorge Llorente became irritated recently when the fire department kept rejecting his plans to landscape his hacienda-style home with jacarandas and avocado trees.

(I put this under technology, though it's not the kind we normally think of, more innovative thinking) picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

An Indiana woman is fighting for her life after setting herself on fire next to her 14-year-old daughter. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Fire investigators are blaming an unattended bong for a fire at the Sigma Chi fraternity at the University of Missouri-Columbia. picked by titojuante 9 months ago

A cat that fled a house fire is back home in Albuquerque, N.M., after turning up some 240 miles away. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Deluged by the kindness of strangers Tuesday, the victims of a fierce fire that destroyed a Burnsville apartment complex Monday will experience an equally blessed Christmas Eve today.

*hey, a good news story* picked by Bornbad 11 months ago

A a water main break near where trunk line ruptured this weekend and caused massive flooding in Studio City section of Los Angeles has caused a sinkhole to swallow a fire engine and water and mud to flow into the streets. picked by suebe 3 months ago

I'd use an IM to fire someone. It would go something like this: "you got pwnd n00b, get out! LOL!!!111 :D" picked by muppet 2 years ago

A woman was arrested and charged with arson and burglary after police say she set fire to the home of a neighbor she thought had stolen her keys. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

An Oregon City man just couldn't catch a break Friday. First he lost his job and then he went home to find his house on fire.
Irony: Fire Victim Worked As Emergency Counselor picked by psycmoe 7 months ago

Fire officials are blaming a hookah – a water pipe used to smoke tobacco – for causing the fire that killed two University of Victoria students picked by DemureArt 2 years ago

A fire brigade has been accused of wasting taxpayers' money after sending two engines and seven firemen to rescue a seagull. The brigade struggled for more than an hour to save the injured bird, which was trapped on a factory roof in Bridgwater, Somerset. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Police say she set the house on fire to cover up the theft of the family's credit card. picked by muppet 1 year ago

A man told police that he set his parents' home on fire Wednesday afternoon to chase away burglars he claimed were creeping around the attic. picked by deepcleanfun 2 years ago

Being a rock star is all about going that extra mile for the fans. Frequently it seems this involves massive pyrotechnic displays. Sometimes these displays don’t go as planned. Here are 10 artists who learned that “If you play with fire, you’re going to get burned,” is more than just a tired old cliché. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years 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 2 years ago

Ancient explorers set sail expecting to encounter dragons on the world's unknown oceans. NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are searching for dragons of a different sort as they enter the boundary of our solar system – cosmic "dragons" that breathe a strange fire of high-speed atomic fragments called cosmic rays. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A young mother jumped almost 15 feet out a window and despite having a broken foot, cuts and bruises, she broke another window and raced up a flight of stairs to rescue her two small children from the fire that destroyed her home Tuesday morning. picked by henkspaan 2 years ago

Three adults and three children have died after eight floors of a London tower block were engulfed in flames, the fire brigade has confirmed.
Dozens of people were trapped after the blaze broke out on the fourth floor of the flats in Camberwell, south London, shortly after 4.10pm. picked by Bingo 5 months 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 2 years ago

A large fire is burning at the world-famous Universal Studios in Los Angeles, California. picked by topofall 2 years ago