Because of business growth on Bedford Avenue in Lynchburg, city leaders are preparing to make major upgrades to the road.

Creosote creates a sour, sickly odor. Slow smoldering fires or the use of unseasoned wood can create “cool” smoke and a weak ...

The man set the fire in an attempt to kill his partner, who was in the house, prosecutors said. Instead, another woman died ...

Channel 9’s Damany Lewis joined CFD’s arson investigators as they train to find the first flames. Lewis and Charlotte Fire Department investigator Chad Schull circled a training area as he and others ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

Pyrite found at a 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England suggests that early humans were making fire long before experts ...

According to groundbreaking findings from England, Neanderthals were sparking their own fires 400,000 years ago — hundreds of thousands of years earlier than many anthropologists previously believed.