The fires raging around Los Angeles bring to mind another devastating U.S. fire that killed more than a thousand people on ...

The flames did not stop until they reached Fullerton Avenue. It of course became known as the Great Chicago Fire. Firsthand accounts of the fire were colorful and horrific. This paragraph is from ...

In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like ...

The Great Michigan Fire, also with an unconfirmed death toll, is believed to have claimed more than 500 lives, according to ...

These six American fires led to change: political, legislative and geographic. Those tragedies helped shape the evolving ...

Over time, her alleged role in the Great Fire passes into legend. In 1997 the Chicago City Council will pass a resolution that finally absolves Mrs. O'Leary of any wrongdoing. More About the ...

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the ...

According to folklore, this hapless bovine kicked the lantern and became the culprit that started the Great Chicago Fire of ...

When it's winter in Chicago, even the river needs a plow. The city entrusts the experts at the Chicago Fire Department to ...

After taking an unexpected week off, Chicago Fire returned with answers to what happened to Cruz. Meanwhile, Kidd had to deal ...

All the modern architecture and “smart homes” wired for the digital age were wiped out by a lack of water – something the ancient Romans mastered with a mortarless aqueduct system 2000 years ago.

The area damaged by one major fire in Southern California is over two times larger than the size of the Town of Normal. The ...