Illegal high-rises on Gandhi Road loom over the fragile hills of Darjeeling in India, despite court orders to halt construction. Credit: Akash Pradhan On a rainy morning in August, 47-year-old Dawa ...

Nov. 26 (UPI) --Forty-four people, including a firefighter, are dead and hundreds are missing in Hong Kong after a massive high-rise fire Wednesday that hit multiple buildings in the small Chinese ...

Radio signal dead zones can create a potentially dangerous situation for emergency responders, yet dozens of high-rises in Fort Lauderdale have them, city officials say. That means police and ...

At least 40 people are dead and hundreds missing, officials said. LONDON -- At least 40 people were killed and hundreds reported missing after a massive fire engulfed a residential apartment complex ...

NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (WOIO) - Multiple people were evaluated by medics on-the-scene, including three taken to the hospital after a fire on the fifth floor of a high-rise apartment building in North ...

The study of smoke movement and fire dynamics in high-rise buildings is critical for improving fire safety and resilience in modern urban environments. Recent investigations have focussed on the ...

The fire occurred in flat No. 68, A Wing, of a Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) housing society behind Chul Aangan Hotel on ...

Sometimes there’s a good reason Massachusetts has different rules than the rest of the nation. For example, we pioneered universal health insurance coverage and free public schools. But sometimes ...

Researchers in Canada have proposed using gravity-based energy storage in high-rise buildings, in combination with photovoltaic facades, small wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries. Their modeling ...