JOLIET (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Fire officials in Joliet are advising people not to use fire to thaw frozen pipes, following a small fire that broke out in Joliet Wednesday. Fire crews were on the scene of ...

FRESNO, Calif. -- Disclaimer: Don't do this at home. Fire officials in Fresno, California say a man who was house-sitting for his parents set the home on fire after he used a blowtorch to kill black ...

SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – Firefighters are battling flames at Advent United Methodist Church that the pastor says may have started from a blowtorch. According to the pastor, construction crews had a ...

CINCINNATI — One person has been displaced from their home after the Cincinnati Fire Department (CFD) said they accidentally set their house on fire Sunday night. Cincinnati fire crews responded to ...

Police officers detained a man with a blowtorch on Thursday accused of trying to start fires in a Los Angeles community. Citizens initially apprehended the suspect in the area before the LAPD took him ...

Police detained a person allegedly seen using a blowtorch Monday to set multiple vegetation fires along the Interstate Highway 880 corridor in Oakland, authorities said. The Oakland Fire Department ...

Homeland Security confirmed Tuesday that a man who sparked interest after being spotted with a blowtorch near one of the California fires is an illegal immigrant with a criminal record. Juan Manuel ...

Would-be cleaners take note: A blowtorch is not a good substitute for a broom. Coweta County authorities say Galen Winchell set fire to his west Georgia home Wednesday as he cleaned cobwebs from ...

SEATTLE (AP) — A man who used a can of spray paint and a lighter as a makeshift blowtorch to kill a spider in his laundry room started a blaze that caused $60,000 worth of damage, Seattle fire ...

Sharie Gray suffered burns to 70 percent of her body following the December 2022 incident, per reports Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...