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Family and friends are in mourning after an apartment building fire claimed the lives of a mother and her teenage son in Pointe-Claire, Que. More...

Two people are dead after a fire broke out in a large apartment building on St-Jean Boulevard in Pointe Claire, on Montreal's West Island. More...

An electrical fire on Sunday at a data center of the New York Stock Exchange in Mahwah, New Jersey, affected communications connectivity to 58 trading firms, but the exchange expects "completely normal operations" for Monday's market open. More...

Kindle Fire Announced Just yesterday Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced the release of their newest tablet, the Kindle Fire. This new tablet has some pretty competitive features: a low $199 price tag, a super fast browser called Amazon Silk access to tons of movies, music, apps, and books. It has...

With the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet, another Android device enters the mass market and will inevitably make its way to the enterprise. More...

A fire tore through three stories of a partially vacant apartment building in the 300 block of Winnipeg's Carlton Street overnight. Streets in the area, near Portage Avenue, were closed for several hours after emergency services received a call at about 1:45 a.m. Saturday. Yasir Abshir, who...

Two separate fires destroyed two businesses and a provincial housing office in Happy Valley-Goose Bay in central Labrador over the weekend. Firefighters were called to the Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corporation office on Royal Street at about 1a.m., Monday. Nobody was inside at the...

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday declared a state of emergency for a county in the southeastern part of her state where firefighters were battling two wind-whipped blazes simultaneously, She made the pronouncement after taking an airplane tour of the Monument Fire and the Horseshoe Two...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A man in Puerto Rico will be tried on charges that he set several of his relatives on fire on New Year's Day. Justino Sanchez Diaz is scheduled to appear in court on Friday as jury selection begins. A government psychiatrist has determined that he is fit to stand trial...

Forest fire crews held the line on Sunday against a monster blaze in eastern Arizona despite another day of high winds and low humidity, allowing thousands of evacuees to return home and securing a New Mexico border town. The so-called Wallow Fire displaced as many as 10,000 people at its peak...

(CNN) -- After a day of progress against a huge wildfire, crews in Arizona were bracing for Saturday's predicted higher winds and low humidity -- conditions that will make underbrush a tinderbox. "The weather conditions will be going back to less favorable conditions," said John Helmich...

(CNN) -- As a giant wildfire raged in Arizona Thursday, fire officials and power companies said they were planning for the possibility that the blaze would reach crucial transmission lines that supply power to thousands. "There's some power lines out there. There's also some fiber-optic lines...

(CNN) -- Relentless winds that have driven an Arizona wildfire into the record books are expected to slow down Thursday, possibly giving firefighters a chance to start reversing a defensive battle against the 10-day blaze. Relief could not come soon enough. Late Wednesday, fire officials...

More than 400 firefighters continued Wednesday to battle a massive wildfire burning out of control for three weeks in the Richardson Backcountry about 60 kilometers north of Fort McMurray. "The length of this fire is about the same size as it is from Edmonton to Red Deer," said Sustainable...

(CNN) -- A fast-moving wildfire that has sent thousands fleeing in eastern Arizona is the second-largest blaze in the history of the state, records show. The so-called Wallow Fire sweeping through Apache National Forest has burned approximately 389,000 acres, Incident commander Joe Reinarz told...

(CNN) -- Crews battling one of the worst wildfires in Arizona history prepared Monday to hold a 30-mile line against the advancing blaze even as accelerating winds threatened to undo their efforts, officials said. The "Wallow Fire," as the blaze is known, has scorched 192,746 acres and has...

(CNN) -- Hundreds of people in a northeast Arizona resort town and its neighboring communities were told to pack their belongings and be ready to leave Sunday as a wildfire that has forced some 2,200 out of their homes marched toward them. The pre-evacuation order for Greer was issued by...

The historic Fairview Inn on Queen Street in Bridgewater, N.S., was destroyed by a fire Saturday afternoon. "There are flames coming out the front of the building," Mabel Jane Naugler, who lives two doors down from the building, told CBC News on Saturday. "It looks full engulfed to me, and...

Investigators are looking into what may have been a firebombing in the northwest neighbourhood of Royal Oak. Calgary fire crews arrived at a house on the 100 block of Royal Ridge Terrace at about 9:25 pm on Wednesday night to find smoke and flames pouring from the lower level of the home. "The...

Military transport planes and helicopters have been dispatched to northern Saskatchewan to help evacuate the remote communities of Wollaston Lake and Hatchet Lake First Nation, which are under threat from a massive forest fire. Two Hercules aircraft and three Griffon helicopters arrived...