HAVEN, Kan. (AP) — Authorities were allowing people to return to their homes Friday near a Reno County gas plant a day after an explosion rocked the plant and led to a fire there. Officials…

EDISON, Neb. (AP) — A wildfire in southern Nebraska fueled by dry conditions and strong winds forced the evacuation of the small village of Edison, destroyed several homes and factored into the death of a…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A person whose car became stuck in a field died in a grassfire, the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s department said Sunday. Sedgwick County firefighters responding to a call about a grass fire…

EUREKA, Kan. (AP) — One person has died after fire destroyed a home in the small southeastern Kansas town of Eureka. KSNW-TV reports that the fire was reported around 3:15 a.m. Saturday. The fire department…

COLONY — There were no injuries in a house fire in downtown Colony Monday afternoon. Volunteer firefighters from Colony, Garnett, Welda and elsewhere in Anderson County converged and were able to douse the fire in…

GAS — Fire crews are investigating the cause of a fire in Gas that sent one person to the hospital for evaluation Sunday evening. A neighbor saw flames through the window of a bedroom at…

GREELEY — Two adults and a child died in a house fire in Greeley on Wednesday morning. The cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department and the Kansas State…

NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors worked Monday to save the lives of several people gravely injured when smoke from a fire knocked them out or trapped them in their apartments in a New York City…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two sisters and several of their children were among the 12 people killed when a fire tore through a Philadelphia rowhome that apparently had no working smoke detectors, fire officials said.  Eight…

Talk about hitting the ground running. Corey Isbell, a 20-year veteran of the Iola Fire Department, has been named Iola Fire Chief, effective immediately. And today, his first day as chief, Isbell is in South…