Videos of the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar and Thailand on Friday morning have surfaced. Some residents were able to capture the moments high-rise building collapsed leaving many dead ...

Firefighters arrived to find smoke and flames visible from the 16th floor.

One person has died and more than a dozen others, including a firefighter, were hospitalized after a massive fire, prompted ...

When a fire breaks out in a high-rise building, conventional wisdom is that stairwells are the only way out. Lifts are verboten in such scenarios, while sheer height typically prevents any other ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Part of a high-rise apartment building in New York City collapsed Wednesday morning, leaving a corner of the building a pile of rubble. The city’s fire department said it had no ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades burned through the night, leaving at least 44 people dead and 279 reported missing with rescuers still pulling residents from blazing high-rise ...

Can you ride out a Category 5 hurricane on the 50th floor? Would you want to? You might not make it through the storm alive, experts say. Even if you do, your building won’t likely be the same when ...