While multiple fire departments conducted station-specific accountability checks following the explosion, the formal tag system was not used.

An employee at an asphalt company is hospitalized with second-degree burns after an explosion at the top of a silo.

Fighting May's Searsmont lumber mill fire with water likely led to the deadly explosion, a report found.

Morrill firefighter Andrew Cross, 27, died at the scene of the fire. Searsmont’s assistant fire Chief, Wayne Woodbury, succumbed to his injuries on June 14. The blaze, one of the worst industrial ...

An explosion atop a Fresno asphalt silo burned one worker Tuesday morning while two others escaped by climbing down on their ...

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health released a 22-page line-of-duty death report revealing that fire suppression tactics unknowingly contributed to the catastrophic May 15, 2026, ...

A worker suffered second-degree burns after an explosion Tuesday morning at the Martin Marietta Fresno Asphalt facility.

This photo provided by the Maine Department of Public Safety shows Firefighters try to extinguish flames from a large fire at Robbins Lumber in Searsmont, Maine on Friday, May 15, 2026 (Maine ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Firefighters who responded to a fire at a Maine lumber mill used tactics that inadvertently contributed to a massive explosion that killed three people, according to a report ...

When NIOSH investigators started their probe of an explosion at a Searsmont lumberyard that claimed the lives of two firefighters, a common mistake quickly emerged. "Over the past 40 years, NIOSH ...