Tomorra Watts is grateful she walked over to her brother’s house for a cigarette Saturday afternoon in their Roseland neighborhood. After chatting with him, she stepped outside and spotted a fire ...

As depicted in a 1991 Hollywood thriller, a backdraft is a serious matter if a fire ever breaks out inside a building. Fire needs oxygen to burn and actually sucks air toward it, creating a windstorm ...

TRENTON – Preliminary reports on last night's two-alarm house fire that left two firefighters with minor injuries after a backdraft ripped through a burning house indicate that firefighters followed ...

No one was hurt in the blaze that blew apart the house's attic. — -- A video has captured the terrifying moment when two firefighters were caught in a backdraft as they attempted to put out a ...

Upon arrival, Chief 11-10 reported smoke showing from the second floor of a two story wood frame dwelling. The crew of Engine 11 advanced a 1 ¾” handline to side A and entered the structure on the ...

A phenomenon known as a backdraft may have produced the explosive noise reported at a Regina home where a fire Thursday sent several people to hospital. The fire broke out late Thursday afternoon. A ...

A backdraft involves deflagration or rapid combustion of hot pyrolysis products and flammable products of combustion upon mixing with air. Several conditions are necessary in order for a backdraft to ...

Two firefighters were taken to a hospital after a small explosion while they were battling a fire on Wednesday morning in Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Fire Department was called to the 1800 block of ...

A Hinsdale mansion that has been owned by a railroad executive and a prominent publisher and, in the movie “Backdraft,” a corrupt Chicago Alderman, is for sale. Built in 1890, the home, seven bedrooms ...