A firefighter stepped into a backdraft on Christmas day in Louisiana. The St. John Volunteer Fire Department was called to a home with smoke coming from behind a fireplace. Two firefighters went to ...

A backdraft occurs when a fire smolders inside a space for a long time and sucks up all the oxygen. It can almost put out the fire. But when air is quickly introduced to that space, such as when a ...

Two firefighters were taken to a hospital after a small explosion while they were battling a fire on Wednesday morning in Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Fire Department was called to the 1800 block of ...

Dayton firefighters were forced to jump out of the way when a backdraft knocked chunks of drywall down during a firefighting operation. The backdraft happened after firefighters arrived at a burning ...

At a somber afternoon news conference Wednesday, Buffalo Fire Commissioner William Renaldo delivered the news that many feared to learn and no one wanted to hear. "Today one of our firefighters made ...