There were no sprinklers inside the apartment building at 27th and Highland, where a fire on Sunday, May 11, killed five people. The building was built before sprinkler systems were required by state ...

Five days before a fatal blaze ripped through Gabriel House, a fire safety contractor alerted the building owner his sprinkler system had not undergone the state-mandated five-year inspection, ...

Fire Systems Inc. says it told Gabriel House owners that the building's sprinkler system had defective parts, but that the owner never fixed it. The company says it was hired to inspect the system, ...

In a makeshift demonstration kitchen in Concord, California, cooking oil splatters in and around a frying pan, which catches fire on an unattended gas stove. Within moments, a smoke detector wails.