The Texas fertilizer disaster turned a routine fire call into one of the deadliest industrial explosions in U.S. history. A massive blast at a local plant killed 15 people, including 12 first ...

In many ways, Edward Burkhardt is in the middle of a train company CEO's worst nightmare: one of his trains, carrying 72 cars of crude oil, went out of control and exploded in a small Quebec border ...

HERRIMAN — Herriman dodged a lot of disaster from a massive fire and explosion over the weekend, according to new details. An SUV slammed into a shopping center, triggering a gas leak, and the ...

An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country's history as others ...

On the evening of August 4, 2020, a massive explosion rocked the Port of Beirut in Lebanon. The explosion happened as hundreds of cameras were already pointed at a burning warehouse, in which more ...

A nursing home that caught fire in Bristol Township on Dec. 23 was declared a level 2 mass casualty incident by responders.

A set of explosions and a fire at a Chinese poultry factory killed at least 119 workers on Monday, amid reports that poor building conditions contributed to the high death toll. Local officials say ...

Countries rise and fall on the back of disasters and America is no different. Some of the disasters Americans faced have become household names but many more have been forgotten. But these silenced ...

Manmade or technological disasters are unpredictable, can spread across geographical boundaries, may be unpreventable, and may have limited physical damage but long-term effects. Some disasters in ...

An explosion at the “Plastmass” munitions factory in the town of Kopeisk, near Chelyabinsk, Russia, has taken the lives of at least 13 workers. The explosion occurred in the night of October 22-23. As ...