Emergency services were sent to Gerdau Steel in Monroe to deal with a scrap metal fire that started at the factory.

Investigators found the fire, which caused damage of about $280,000, started from grinding metal near flammable materials. Get a first alert to breaking news delivered to your inbox. Sign up for ...

A ship holding thousands of cars sank in the Pacific Ocean on Monday, weeks after a fire broke out on a deck that was holding electric vehicles – stoking industry concerns around transporting highly ...

Officials issued a burn ban across Multnomah County on Tuesday, from Portland to Troutdale and beyond, as anticipated hot and ...

A button battery inside a children's book caused a car seat to burst into flames, according to a North Carolina fire department.. The George Hildebran Fire & Rescue Department, located in Burke ...

Vale District is set to enforce additional fire restrictions starting Friday, July 4, in an effort to curb huma ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Crews are at the scene of a large four-alarm fire at a metal recycling facility that began early Wednesday afternoon, Portland Fire and Rescue announced. After hours of ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — St. Pete Fire Rescue crews said they have "successfully extinguished" the large scrap metal fire that broke out Thursday afternoon at a recycling center. The fire started ...

A Kernersville fire truck drives away from the scene of a fire at OmniSource, a scrap metal recycling facility, on Monday at 1426 W. Mountain St. in Kernersville. The fire broke out around 4 p.m ...

Investigators found the fire, which caused damage of about $280,000, started from grinding metal near flammable materials. Get a first alert to breaking news delivered to your inbox. Sign up for ...

Some button batteries contain lithium, a flammable metal, but in a statement to ABC News, Cottage Door Press, the publisher of "JJ's Potty Time," said their books are not made with lithium button ...