It started with a candle in an abandoned warehouse. It ended with temperatures above 3,000 degrees and the men of the Worcester Fire Department in a fight for their lives.

Investigating one of the deadliest maritime disasters in U.S. history.

For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future.

He helped build an artists’ utopia. Now he faces trial for 36 deaths there.

Decades of greed, neglect, corruption, and bad politics led to last year’s Paradise fire, the worst in California history.

Inside the most destructive fire in American history—and why the West’s cities and towns will keep on burning.

The inside story of death and survival as the Carr Fire’s tornado of flames stormed Redding—and changed firefighting in a warming California.

A 60,000-word investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire.

Retracing the steps of the most devastating wildfire in California history.

Love and loss on the Texas Panhandle plains.

A night of terror in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

How junk arson science convicted a mother of killing her own daughters.

An Italian town plagued by mysterious fires turns to science, the church, and the law in a search for answers.

Meet the smokejumpers of America.

The fire department working a desolate New Mexico mesa is made up of 15 anarchists and recluses and led by a friendly giant whose job is to be an administrator in a place that defies administration.

In eight minutes, Miashah Moses took out the trash and a blaze consumed the apartment where her nieces were watching television. What happened, and who’s to blame?

The wild fire that consumed Harbin Hot Springs, a legendary clothing-optional resort in Northern California.

A journalist’s memories of covering the great Baltimore fire of 1904.

A rookie firefighter confronts his first test.

The Granite Mountain Hotshots, an outfit of professional wildland firefighters, had 20 members. On June 30, 19 of them lost their lives.

How volunteer firefighters responded to a lethal West, Texas explosion.

Embedded with the “hotshots” trying to battle forest fires.

A historic Little Rock building and its owner, before and after a catastrophic fire.

A father’s life, one year after the death of his three daughters in a fire.

A chronicle of the 2010 wildfire that burned down 169 homes in Colorado, told via the people who lived through it.