High-rise Buildings High-rise Buildings The following summarizes our written fire drill procedures for High-rise buildings, which are defined by the 2009 International Fire Code (IFC) as buildings or ...

Yes, in DC high-rise buildings with high levels of fire protection, alarms will only sound on certain floors by design.

What started out as a kitchen fire led to the evacuation of hundreds of units at the 505 Nashville complex Sunday, shedding a light on the added challenges of clearing a high rise building during ...

Seven people, including a critically injured baby, were hospitalized following a fire on Wednesday afternoon in a Chicago high-rise building, according to fire officials.

Heavy smoke and flames were coming from the upper-floor windows of the high-rise building. Fire crews were able to put out the fire, and keep the fire damage to the tenth floor apartment.

BETHESDA, Md. (DC News Now) — Officials said more than 90 firefighters were on the scene after a fire broke out in a high-rise apartment building in Bethesda late Tuesday night.

A fire ripped through a Squirrel Hill apartment building Monday evening. Sky 4, Pittsburgh's only news chopper, was over the Murray Towers along the 2800 block of Murray Avenue.

One person is dead and several victims were injured Wednesday in an extra-alarm fire at a high-rise building in the Kenwood neighborhood that burned through several floors of the building and sent ...

Federal and Minneapolis city leaders on Monday highlighted the installation of fire sprinklers in all 42 of the city’s high-rise public housing buildings. Over $20 million in both federal and ...

A 50-year-old woman died in a blaze inside a high-rise building in Brooklyn on Monday, officials said. The fire broke out just before 2:45 a.m. on the sixth floor of 2475 West 16th Street, a 19 ...

KMBC 9 Investigates: Downtown high-rise’s steel columns at center of fire department inspections Building management investigating fire protection liquid inside steel columns in a project that ...