Portland Fire & Rescue responded to reports of lithium-ion batteries "exploding" and catching fire on the fourth floor of the engineering building at Portland State University. Crews arrived on the ...

Multiple lithium-ion batteries exploded in Portland State University’s Engineering Building Tuesday morning, forcing more than 100 students and staff to evacuate the building for about two hours. The ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A lithium laptop battery exploded and sparked a massive blaze that ravaged a Southside Estates home, leaving a disabled veteran and his family displaced. The fire broke out on ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Several fires across northern Utah sparked by lithium ion battery-powered equipment have kept fire crews busy. Now, they're reminding Utahns how to safely store, use, charge and ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — There was a crucial lesson and demonstration on Wednesday for firefighters from around Western New York as they could see the dangers of dealing with combustible lithium-ion battery ...

An exploding lithium-ion battery in an illegal e-bike repair shop in the basement of a home in Queens sparked a huge fire that tore through the single-family house, FDNY officials said Tuesday.

Garbage truck fires are never ideal, but they are usually not catastrophic. When a fire broke out on December 6 in the back of a garbage truck making its Friday rounds through the Chicago suburb of ...

Lithium-ion batteries power nearly everything we use today—smartphones, laptops, tablets, toothbrushes, and even electric cars. These rechargeable tools have revolutionized modern life, but they often ...

Eighty-two percent of the members who voted approved of the new deal, according to the Portland Community College Federation of Classified Employees. Veteran outdoors journalist Grant McOmie dies at ...

My parents live two or three blocks from where this happened, and heard the explosion. They didn't know what it was at the time, until it was covered in the local newspaper the next day. The article ...