TRENTON – Preliminary reports on last night's two-alarm house fire that left two firefighters with minor injuries after a backdraft ripped through a burning house indicate that firefighters followed ...

Tomorra Watts is grateful she walked over to her brother’s house for a cigarette Saturday afternoon in their Roseland neighborhood. After chatting with him, she stepped outside and spotted a fire ...

PITTSFIELD - A Pittsfield woman was burned Thursday afternoon in what fire officials are calling a "backdraft explosion" during a fire in the basement of her home at 94 Ridge Avenue. The woman was ...

A backdraft involves deflagration or rapid combustion of hot pyrolysis products and flammable products of combustion upon mixing with air. Several conditions are necessary in order for a backdraft to ...

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 ...