Police say a city councilmember in Virginia was set on fire by a man who entered a local magazine office.

A man poured a flammable liquid on J. Lee Vogler, a councilman in Danville, Va., and set him on fire on Wednesday, the police said.

Fire crews working across western Colorado made more progress containing and slowing the growth of several wildfires Thursday.

A large brush fire burning near Interstate 70 in Garfield County closed the highway for five hours Friday night, state and local officials said.

Fire crews in Lehigh Acres reported a rise in illegal burns, prompting fire officials to stress the high risk these pose.

The Fort Lee Fire Department is hosting a fundraising event to help its former chief, whose family lost everything in an apartment fire in Leonia.

Lee Petrie, a Marshwood Middle School teacher and local coach, learned he had leukemia days after a fire damaged burned his family's home.

A three-alarm fire ripped through two barns and a horse riding ring in Lee, N.H., Saturday night, fire officials and an owner of the farm said.

Over the weekend, fire crews battled two multi-alarm fires in Lee and Barrington, just a few miles away from each other. Authorities said no one was hurt in either fire.

Thursday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office and Pine Island and Matlacha fire departments returned to the home to find out what had caused this fatal fire.

STOCKBRIDGE — While Lee town officials study a plan to build a new headquarters for public-safety operations, they are also exploring an inter-municipal agreement to share fire and emergency-medical ...

The Lee Central Fire Station on Main Street was built in 1912, back when firefighters drove horse-drawn vehicles to fires. Now, the bays are too narrow and too short to fit contemporary fire trucks.