Toddler dropped from burning building caught safely by firefighters

Pulled From The Smoke: Firefighters Rescue Man Trapped Inside Burning Wimauma Home

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – A house fire on 12th Street in Wimauma drew a heavy emergency response Sunday evening after multiple callers warned that someone was trapped inside the burning building. The Hillsborough County Fire Rescue Emergency Dispatch Communications Center began receiving a flood of 911 calls at approximately 7:56 PM. The first fire crew [] Pulled From The Smoke: Firefighters Rescue Man Trapped Inside Burning Wimauma Home

Fire in Örebro apartment building - all residents evacuated, no injuries

Fire in Örebro apartment building - all residents evacuated, no injuries

Antwerp fire: At least five dead as blaze rips though apartment block

The blaze broke out on the eighth floor of the building in the city's Linkeroever neighborhood

Firefighters turn a plastic bucket into a baby's rescue pod

At the disaster relief site in Hengzhou, Guangxi, firefighters came up with an unexpected but effective way to evacuate a baby safely. Placed inside a plastic bucket to stay secure and dry, the little one was carefully carried through the flooded streets by rescue workers. #EverydayHero

6 dead in Belgium apartment fire as firefighters continue search

A serious fire broke out on Wednesday morning in a ten-storey apartment building in Antwerp, Belgium. Antwerp police confirmed on Wednesday afternoon that at least six people had died in the fire, according to Belgian media, reported Xinhua. Everyone in the affected building has now been evacuated. A total of 60 residents of an adjacent building have also been evacuated and are being sheltered at the residential care center across the street. The blaze has not yet been fully extinguished, and the fire service said firefighting remained complex and difficult, though the fire could no longer spread. Firefighters are still searching inside the building for possible victims. The police confirmed that the fire started on the ground floor. It remains unclear how it started.