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With Fourth of July festivities fast approaching, some Bay Area cities and counties are completely banning fireworks over safety concerns.

A Southern California family is warning others about a popular science experiment that can quickly turn into a dangerous situation after a child suffered serious burns and injuries to his face.

“My initial reaction was damn, this is bad.” The morning after a fire and large blast at a historic South Philadelphia refinery, Mayor Jim Kenney had a strong reaction as he spoke on camera for the first time since the fiery incident.

Investigators were working at the scene of a fire at a strip mall in Sunnyvale Wednesday morning.

Fire tore through the sleeping quarters of an academy for one of Brazil’s most popular professional soccer clubs Friday, killing 10 people and injuring three, most likely teenage players, authorities said. Firefighters were called just after 5 a.m. local time to the sprawling Ninho de Urubu training grounds of the Flamengo soccer club in Rio de Janeiro’s western region. Overhead...

A 38-year-old man died Wednesday night during an apartment fire that may have started with a Christmas tree in the Oakland home, according to a fire department official.

A 38-year-old man died Wednesday night during an apartment fire that may have started with a Christmas tree in the Oakland home, according to a fire department official.

Residents inside an apartment complex in San Jose escaped injury after a blaze ignited at the property early Tuesday morning, according to a fire official.

An elderly man died and two others — an elderly woman and a firefighter — suffered injuries when a blaze broke out at a residence in San Francisco early Monday morning, according to the fire department.

A San Francisco firefighter died early Wednesday in a head-on collision near Santa Rosa, according to the SF Fire Department and Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office.

Two people were taken into custody Monday morning after a car slammed into a residential building in west San Jose, rupturing a gas line in the process and forcing the evacuation of more than one dozen residents, according to officials.

Two women were rescued and a man was taken to the hospital with “significant” injuries after a blaze ignited at an apartment building in San Jose Wednesday morning, according to a fire official.

A fire broke out a house in South San Francisco house early Tuesday, leaving eight people displaced, according to a fire official.

Police on Wednesday announced they have made an arrest in connection to a house fire earlier this week in San Jose.

Firefighters managed to control a suspicious fire that broke out at a residence in San Jose early Monday, but the home was left uninhabitable due to extensive damage, according to a fire official.

Alert and patient firefighters in South San Francisco rescued a small dog Friday after it jumped into a canal, according to a fire official.

A 14-year-old boy has become the tenth person to die in a tragic house fire on Chicago’s West Side that claimed the lives of three other teens and six young children.

For many Californians, wildfire season has turned into a series of upheavals that starts with terror of approaching flames. The experience soon gives way to an anxious scramble for shelter, followed by tedious but tense days of waiting.

A man died in a mobile home fire that also left a 4-year-old girl displaced late Thursday in San Jose, officials said.