As depicted in a 1991 Hollywood thriller, a backdraft is a serious matter if a fire ever breaks out inside a building. Fire needs oxygen to burn and actually sucks air toward it, creating a windstorm ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters think a backdraft may have been the explosive sound heard when a fire broke out a Regina home Thursday. A phenomenon ...

On June 14, 2006 at 04:57 hours the Beaver Falls Fire Department was dispatched to a reported dwelling fire at 2430 Eighth Avenue. Engine 11 Tower 11 and Rescue 11 responded. Upon arrival, Chief 11-10 ...

A fire lieutenant was burned early today when he was caught in a backdraft explosion on the second floor of a house next to one that was already burning. ALBANY -- A fire lieutenant was burned early ...

Four firefighters were burned in a backdraft that erupted during a blaze Sunday afternoon at a West Side residential building. The fire, in the 4900 block of West Potomac Avenue in the city’s Austin ...

A phenomenon known as a backdraft may have produced the explosive noise reported at a Regina home where a fire Thursday sent several people to hospital. The fire broke out late Thursday afternoon. A ...