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Entrances to National Harbor, Maryland, were shut down early Sunday and reopened about five hours later after a gas leak, officials say.  A construction crew broke a 4 to 6-inch gas line at Fleet and Waterfront streets before 8 a.m., the Prince George’s County fire department said.  Only residents were allowed into National Harbor, the fire department said. Drivers were…

A gas leak at a chemical factory owned by a South Korean company in southern India has left at least 11 people dead and about 1,000 struggling to breathe

An entire block of homes on Elm Street in NW Washington was forced to evacuate for more than four hours as a result of a broken gas line. Pat Collins reports.

Firefighters and utility workers are responding to a major gas leak in Southeast D.C., just north of Nationals Park. Metro has suspended some service on the Green Line, and people have been evacuated from nearby buildings.

The major gas leak that caused evacuations in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Friday was started when city contractors checking water valves “inadvertently closed a gas valve” officials said Friday evening. The leak caused hundreds of people to be evacuated from their homes and two schools early in the morning, just over one year after the area was rocked by gas explosions...

Residents who awoke Saturday to a strong odor in parts of Prince George’s County and D.C. are being told there is no hazardous natural gas leak.

D.C. was wracked by multiple shootings overnight Saturday. Give people, including a girl, were hurt, and a building housing young men transitioning out of incarceration was hit. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

A gas explosion was responsible for the likely destruction of a Howard County office building on Sunday morning, fire and EMS officials say.

An early morning gas explosion inside a Howard County building sent debris flying. News4’s Aimee Cho spoke to residents who said they were startled by the blast.

Paris’ deadliest fire in over a decade claimed 10 lives, sending fleeing residents to the roof to escape the flames that engulfed their apartment building before dawn Tuesday. A 40-year-old female resident, said to have a history of psychiatric problems, was detained near the eight-story building in the quiet neighborhood as police opened an investigation into voluntary arson resulting in...

The death toll in a massive fire at an illegally tapped pipeline in Mexico has risen to 109 after 10 more injured people died at hospitals. Mexico’s Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer said Friday that the latest victims who were severely burned died between Wednesday and early Friday. He said hospitals continue to treat about 40 injured victims. The victims were...

A fireball erupted at the site of a fuel pipeline leak after it appeared to be ruptured by thieves.

French interior minister says 2 firefighters were killed and at least 30 injured in a blast at a bakery in Paris that was reportedly caused by a gas leak. Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said “at this stage we can say it seems from an accidental origin, this would be a gas leak.” He said that Paris firefighters were already at...

The death toll from the collapse of a Russian apartment building has risen to 37 after more bodies were discovered by crews searching the huge pile of concrete rubble. State news agency Tass cited an emergencies ministry official on Thursday as saying four people who lived in the collapsed section of the building in Magnitogorsk remain unaccounted for. The collapse...

Search crews in Russia pulled more bodies Wednesday from a huge pile of rubble where part of an apartment building collapsed, bringing the known death toll to 33 and the number of missing residents down to eight as the grim recovery work continued for a third night. A 3-year-old girl was among the latest victims of the collapse in the...

A leak of a flammable chemical from a plant next to the Delaware Memorial Bridge forced a shut down of the dual-span suspension bridge on Sunday creating a traffic nightmare during the travel rush home from the Thanksgiving holiday.

Two adults and three children escaped a reported gas leak shortly before a home in Howard County, Maryland exploded into flames.

Residents smelled natural gas and left their Howard County home shortly before it exploded into flames.

Thirteen people are dead following a powerful overnight storm that swept through Santa Barbara County and unleashed flooding and mudslides that carried boulders and debris through neighborhoods.

Spokesman Pete Piringer said no one was home at the time. He said the fallen tree damaged the gas meter, creating a gas leak. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.