Two fatal fires in the state within a week — which left a total of five people dead, including two children — have brought the number of people who died in a fire in Connecticut so far this year to ...

Residents’ concerns about whether their affordable housing complex in Southeast Portland meets fire-safety codes led to a city investigation that found that the development was approved shortly before ...

Connecticut officials are considering a change to state building codes that would allow some residential buildings to have only one way to exit, rather than two. The proposal would allow new buildings ...

On January 1, history repeated itself when a fire erupted at the Le Constellation nightclub in Switzerland, claiming 40 lives — more than half of them under the age of 18 — and injuring over 100 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin City Council on Thursday approved several amendments to city code that would change building requirements in the city. Those changes included some ways to make Austin more ...

A church-run homeless shelter was cited for dozens of fire and building code violations last month and will need to install sprinklers, alarms, fire-safe doors among other upgrades or risk fines and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — First-time home ownership means the world to moms like Jasmine Stoner and Lacey Sutton. They’re in Cherry Blossom Townhomes, which was finished in 2023 by the Habitat for ...

Six former New York City fire safety officials and experts have issued a joint declaration affirming the safety of battery energy storage systems under New York state’s newly updated regulations, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Internal emails obtained by KOIN 6 News from the Portland Fire Bureau reveal a paper trail that appears to contradict what fire officials said about fire code violations at a ...

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