By RUSS BYNUM and JEFF MARTIN NAHUNTA, Ga. (AP) — Wildfires burning across the southeastern U.S. were intensifying Wednesday after destroying nearly 50 homes in southeastern Georgia and forcing evacuations and school closures in some communities. Some of the biggest blazes were along Georgia’s coast…
There were multiple house fires in Jackson County over the weekend. The first happened on Eastwood Drive in Moss Point at 11 a.m. Saturday, February 22nd.…
A Wiggins man indicted on two counts of arson for allegedly setting fire to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Wiggins said he was told to set the fires by Jesus. 35-year-old Stefan Day, also known…
Hancock County Emergency Management officials say the woods fires burning near Bayou La Croix and I-10 have subsided. Officials are calling the fires in Hancock County the I-10 wildfire, which engulfed…
An Alabama man pled guilty for a string of 2021 Walmart fires that took place in Mobile and along the Mississippi Coast. Quinton Olson…
A pair of fires on Bell Creek Road are now being investigated as arson. Harrison County Fire Rescue and the Mississippi Forestry Commission responded to the blazes…
Two structures burned to the ground on the Gulf Coast this New Year’s Eve and one of them is suspected arson. At about 7 a.m. today, a trailer…
If you can't handle the heat...get out of the kitchen. That is exactly what the Biloxi Fire Department wants you to do if a fire sparks while you are cooking. In the past week firefighters responded to four kitchen fires…
Don’t let your home become one of the 1,000 that will catch fire this season because of those decorations.
Fire officials are urging residents to hold off on burning trash, leaves or anything else until weather conditions improve and the winds die down.