Greg Gorbett spends unmeasured hours building scale-model rooms, complete with furniture and fixtures. He then judiciously stacks wood cribbing inside and burns his creations. More often than not, he ...

Four firefighters were burned in a backdraft that erupted during a blaze Sunday afternoon at a West Side residential building. The fire, in the 4900 block of West Potomac Avenue in the city’s Austin ...

On June 14, 2006 at 04:57 hours the Beaver Falls Fire Department was dispatched to a reported dwelling fire at 2430 Eighth Avenue. Engine 11 Tower 11 and Rescue 11 responded. Upon arrival, Chief 11-10 ...

Four firefighters suffered facial burns this afternoon while battling backdraft flames at a South Side coach house in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. Chicago Fire Department personnel survey ...

As depicted in a 1991 Hollywood thriller, a backdraft is a serious matter if a fire ever breaks out inside a building. Fire needs oxygen to burn and actually sucks air toward it, creating a windstorm ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters think a backdraft may have been the explosive sound heard when a fire broke out a Regina home Thursday. A phenomenon ...

A woman has been taken to hospital after she opened her door into her stairwell which was on fire and the backdraft blew into her Edinburgh flat. The woman was treated for smoke inhalation and an ...

A phenomenon known as a backdraft may have produced the explosive noise reported at a Regina home where a fire Thursday sent several people to hospital. The fire broke out late Thursday afternoon. A ...

The fire in Captain's Drive is being treated as suspicious A woman has been taken to hospital after she opened her door into her stairwell which was on fire and the backdraft blew into her Edinburgh ...