Nflammable Materials News Today

“Safety tip: please make sure you leave three feet of space between heating units and any furniture, curtains, and clothing,” said SFD.

California hires guards to monitor other sites under the 10 Freeway after the arson fire in L.A. that closed the vital roadway for a week in November.

Over 180 London tower blocks now require costly fire patrols after failing safety inspections.

Efforts were underway overnight to make a portion of the 10 Freeway through downtown Los Angeles safer. Caltrans crews worked into the early morning hours Thursday to remove flammable materials from an area under the freeway on 17th Street between Naomi Avenue and Hooper Avenue. Video showed crews using a loader to fill up a […]

After a fire prompted the closure of the 10 Freeway in downtown, crews continued to remove flammable materials from underneath the interstate.

Wood pallets under Interstate 10 concerned Caltrans for years at the site of the fire, which forced the freeway closure and put a spotlight on the state's lease program.

In light of the rise in residential garage fires across the city, the Burlington Fire Department is offering safety tips to help protect homeowners.

The U.S. has been hit with 23 separate billion-dollar disasters so far this year, the largest number of billion-dollar disasters since records have been kept, according to the National Oceanic and...

A comptroller’s audit, released Wednesday morning, found Orange County Utilities carelessly mishandled hazardous materials in its workplaces, posing potentially unsafe conditions for employees. “They had [hazardous] materials in containers with no labels or with labels that were illegible, a problem because if stuff starts leaking out you don’t know what it is,” Comptroller Phil Diamond said, ...

Six months before Sitakunda's BM Container Depot fire, a team of Bangladesh Investment Development Authority found fire hazards like combustible materials there.