Fires

Wearing hard hats and protective suits, members of the choir of Notre Dame Cathedral sang inside the medieval Paris landmark for the first time since last year’s devastating fire for a special Christmas Eve concert.

The parents were former firefighters, so they leapt into action when they first noticed smoke and flames in their living room.

The Connecticut home where former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh was trapped in a fire reportedly belonged to his rumored girlfriend, a longtime employee of the shoe e-tailer and a prominent cellist.

Overnight temperatures in Australia’s biggest city were the hottest ever, with officials fearing that sweltering November heat could fuel dozens of existing wildfires.

A 64-year-old home nurse died trying to save her 71-year-old paraplegic patient from a fire when she succumbed to smoke from the blaze, Louisiana authorities said Tuesday. 

A retired British Airways 747 aircraft caught fire near its cockpit while being dismantled at a regional airfield in Spain on Monday, the company told Fox News.

Anton Nguyen was asleep when his house in Brisbane, Australia, caught fire on Wednesday morning. His pet parrot Eric alerted him to the fire even before his smoke detector went off.

A fire lit to warm food for tourists may have sparked a blaze on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, according to local reports.

Firefighters in Tanzania were working to contain a fire that broke out Sunday on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, officials said Monday.

Wildfires burning throughout Brazil have reached a historic high with the majority of them once again impacting the Amazon rain forest.