fire rescue

A fire ripped through a home in Brighton, leaving one person dead. Witnesses said he had helped his girlfriend be rescued.

Cellphone footage captured the moment an Alabama man jumped from a burning 25-foot lift into a safety net below.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue has released drone footage of crews working at the site of the condo collapse in Surfside, Fla., The footage is of efforts earlier in the week before crews paused their search and rescue response due to concerns about the structural integrity of the site.

A sheriff’s deputy and maintenance worker are being hailed as heroes after they risked their lives to rescue dozens of people from a fire Friday at an apartment complex in Northern Virginia.

A police sergeant and his fellow officers helped rescue eight residents from a burning apartment building early Tuesday morning in Manchester, New Hampshire.

A New Hampshire police sergeant is being credited with saving the residents of a burning building in Manchester after he spotted the fire early Tuesday morning. Manchester police Sgt. Michael Lavallee was on routine patrol at about 1:15 a.m. when he noticed the heavy fire at a 3-story building on Auburn Street, the department said. Lavallee called the fire in…

A Norwell police officer rescued a Massachusetts family of five from their burning home shortly after midnight Thursday. Officer Joe Esposito helped two adults, three children and a dog evacuate their River Street home prior to the smoke detectors even going off, the fire department said. The fire had been burning in the attic directly over the bedroom where two…

Officer Joe Esposito helped two adults, three children and a dog evacuate their River Street home prior to the smoke detectors even going off, the fire department said.

A Massachusetts mother and her 3-year-old daughter were rescued from the second floor of their Medford home early Monday morning when a 2-alarm fire broke out.

A Massachusetts mother and her 3-year-old daughter were rescued early Monday morning after fire trapped them inside their Medford home. A call was received at about 2 a.m. for the blaze on Brookings Street, Medford fire said. When crews arrived, fire officials said a woman and her child were trapped on the second floor of the home. Megan Lantanowich told…