Carter Evans has served as a Los Angeles-based correspondent for CBS News since February 2013, reporting across all of the network's platforms. He joined CBS News with nearly 20 years of journalism ...

Small bench-top fires are common in labs, but large fires are rare. Labs using solvents pose risks of flash fires, explosions, and toxic smoke. Prevent fires by planning experiments carefully, ...

The Athens Prescribed Fire Science Lab is equipped with large fans that allow the team to simulate winds of up to 90 miles per hour, reproducing conditions of prescribed fire in the field. Prescribed ...

Tucked beneath snow-capped mountains in Montana, the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory is unlike any other lab in the country. It's where scientists are starting fires to better understand how they ...

More than seven months after the Palisades Fire first erupted, burning through thousands of homes and killing a dozen people, investigators have finally provided a cause for the destructive blaze and ...

Albert Simeoni has dedicated his life to fighting wildfires. While studying for his doctorate in mechanical engineering, he wanted to experience fighting the fires he was researching. So he became a ...

HESSTON, Kan. (KSNW) — State fire investigators are working to determine what sparked a fire Friday afternoon in a chemistry classroom at Hesston College that led to a campus evacuation and caused ...

New York State Parks is helping restore and renovate the Shoreham-based Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe. The nonprofit — famous inventor Nikola Tesla’s only known surviving laboratory worldwide — ...

A Shoreham nonprofit developing a $24 million museum honoring Nikola Tesla has filed a $3.5 million state lawsuit alleging a Bohemia demolition crew caused a 2023 fire that severely damaged the ...

Just before 1 am on 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in Grenfell Tower, a high-rise apartment block in West London. Triggered by an electrical fault in a fridge-freezer, the fire should have been a ...