Articles Tagged with ''Fire''

Senior PM Nick Pemberton of MATT Construction, with neighbors and colleagues, used borrowed and donated equipment to quickly move pool water to where it was critically needed as the Eaton blaze spread to his Altadena, Calif., neighborhood.

Driving to his office in Avon, Mass., around 7 a.m. on Feb. 7, 2023, John Ballas received a call from his firm’s site supervisor overseeing two projects at Brockton Hospital in Brockton, Mass.

The tower, commissioned in 1979, has been out of use since a new one was commissioned in 2022. 

No one was injured when a small fire broke out during welding of tube steel.

The utility company said two years ago it would bury 10,000 line miles to prevent wildfires, but regulators now balk at proposed rate increases to pay for the work.

Some unrealistic thinking is creeping into the public perception of last month’s devastating Maui, Hawaii, fire.

The 2021 wildfire caused damage estimated at more than $2 billion.

Arson caused a two-alarm fire that destroyed the wooden-framed 56-unit, $5.5-million apartment complex in the early stages of construction, the Fort Worth Fire Dept. ruled.

Massive fire destroyed the residential complex being built in the city's SouthPark neighborhood, leading to multiple rescues and two deaths.

A spokesperson for the Fort Worth Fire Dept. said the structure was in the early stages of construction. No injuries were reported.