Oslo, Norway: Norwegian State Broadcaster NRK, has finally broadcast the ultimate programme, that Wood burners all round the world have been anxiously waiting years for. Some ask, why they took so long making the programme, it was long over due.
A massive fire on the Channel island of Jersey last night has torn through the island's wasp breeding nest fields owned by the Queen destroying them all.
The loss of what would have been an estimated 100 million fully fledged wasps ready for Her M...
WICHITA, Kansas - Two of the Midwest's most popular and experienced tornado chasers, Sterling Vittybird, 27, and Tranquillo Razzle, 24, recently got caught up in their work.
The two were on Interstate 35, chasing a category 6 tornado that had form...
DALLAS - Big Tex, the legendary 52-foot tall statue at The State Fair of Texas for 60 years, caught fire and completely burned.
The Lone Star State icon with the 75-gallon hat first appeared at the State Fair Park back in 1952.
Big Tex was purc...
A Gateshead man is recovering in hospital after setting himself on fire in a desperate plea for help and attention.
For several years Albert Dullboddy (55), an unemployed traffic warden, had complained of being ignored at home. He had recently tak...
Lessons in swimming for children up to the age of eleven have been cancelled in Dorking after a local fire safety marshal deemed the Dorking Leisure Centre swimming baths unsafe, and a fire hazard.
"It is impossible to get thirty children out of t...
St. Louis (SAPP) - The 2012 Olympics in London will be getting no help from the U.S.A. this year. Drought, heatwave, and burn bans have crippled the effort to send the Olympic Flame through the Midwest this year. But this may soon change.
"This to...
An American institution is gone. Metro DC police and fire units responded to the 3 AM blaze Friday morning, only to find the entire structure fully engulfed in inflammatory language and falling apart under its own massive weight.
Originally constr...
A large fire yesterday at Donkeystones Mill in Dobcross, Oldham, has destroyed one of the area's oldest engineering companies.
Ezra Postlethwaite & Sons, who have operated at the mill since 1895, were the only factory left in Britain still pr...
Scouts from the 3.17th Fylde Troop near Blackpool were given the honour of passing the torch through Lytham St Annes, a stretch of thirty miles that took it through the historic Halfbaked Woods.
Each of the thirty strong team of scouts carried the...
A clan of destructive "fairytale" dwarfs are causing carnage throughout Europe.
Their first sightings were said to be in Germany on February 25th where a American tourist was burnt to a crisp by one of the dwarfs. They have later been spotted in F...
Foppish pig fiddler Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall was today at the centre of an arson inquiry, after the landmark river cottage was burnt down.
Curly haired Hugh a celebrity chef known for his trademark lack of food hygiene and eating pigs testicles...
Axminster, Devon - For once you can't blame his classic organic placenta pot au feu for catching fire and burning to the ground Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Riverside Cottage cookery school.
Firemen who fought the former threshing barn blaze last...
General Motors CEO, Daniel Akerson remains in Washington to deflect criticism around reported fires with the batteries in the new Chevrolet Volt, a non fossil fuel burning, fully electric vehicle.
"That was so last year", said Melvin Stickles on J...
30,000 Minis have been recalled by the manufacturers because of a fault that it is feared could cause a fire.
The international recall follows the investigation of one case in Britain but there have been been no injuries connected with the fault,...
A pig (the animal, not the human, variety) in upstate NY has been accused of knocking off the top of a hot water heater and starting a fire in a barn. Uh-oh.
Experts opined that the perp in this case was curious about the water heater; hence he s...
London fire fighters were sent a memo yesterday stating that every fire officer must consume two litres of water before going on duty. They will also be required to drink a further three litres of water when on duty at their stations. The memo said t...
Wincanton, Somerset - Highly combustible bovine methane is suspected of being behind a Devon blaze where firefighters are tackling the county's biggest blaze for a decade.
Acrid fumes reminiscent of charred Welsh Rarebit have engulfed the area as...