One person was found dead after a house fire in the city's Mayfair section early Wednesday morning. Two children were also critically injured, according to fire officials.

Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service and Birmingham police responded at 7:50 p.m. Tuesday to a fire at a home in the 800 block of Sixth Street West.

A fire that killed several pets in a Washington Township home Tuesday started after a dog accidentally turned on the kitchen burner.

The cause of a deadly fire​ at the Gabriel House assisted living home in Fall River, Massachusetts has been narrowed to two possibilities.

Three firefighters were injured battling a two-alarm house fire in Far Rockaway early Wednesday morning.

A second man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering an elderly couple who died following a fire at their home. Grandparents Peter Greener, 77, who is known as Eric, and his partner Sheila Jackson, 83, died in hospital after the blaze at their home on South John Street, St Helens, on 15 July, Merseyside Police said.

A father who died along with another adult and two children in a house fire in West Jordan on Friday was responsible for causing the fire, police announced Tuesday.