An explosion struck a Shell gas station in the Mission District on Monday afternoon, rocking nearby homes and sending a thick, black plume of smoke across the neighborhood. Several dozen firefighters ...

Swiss authorities have said that a deadly fire at a ski resort bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, rapidly developed into a “flashover” – a dangerous phenomenon in which everything in a room ignites ...

About 40 people were killed and around 119 others injured in a fire at a New Year’s party in a Swiss ski resort bar, according to police.

The Swiss authorities said the explosion, which happened at the basement of the Le Constellation Bar and Lounge in the ski resort town of Crans-Montana, was being considered a fire and not a terror ...