Palm Beach County Fire Rescue personnel are responding to an ever-increasing number of calls in communities after hydrogen from the charging of golf carts has set off detectors. Golfers may not realize it but their golf carts could be ticking time bombs if they charge them inside a garage.

An explosion ripped through multiple homes in South Philadelphia Thursday, causing them to collapse and leaving as many as three people trapped in the rubble, at least one of whom “most likely” died, officials said.

More than a million California homes are now protected under a new law that temporarily bans insurance companies from dropping customers in areas affected by recent wildfires, officials announced Wednesday.

At least three are dead following an outbreak of more than two dozen tornadoes — some rated EF3 strength — that battered parts of the Deep South on Monday. In addition to the damage, the storms left many scratching their heads, wondering whether tornadoes in December are unusual.

Hundreds of Houston homeowners near U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-managed reservoirs may receive compensation for flooding of their properties during 2017’s Hurricane Harvey, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

"Winning the war for talent" is a shared objective for both life and non-life insurers next year, according to EY’s 2020 Insurance Outlook.

Tornado warnings continued Tuesday in the Deep South as a severe weather outbreak that killed three people and damaged dozens of homes pushed to the east.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s opposition to Pacific Gas & Electric’s restructuring plan just a week after it struck a $13.5 billion settlement with fire victims is forcing the nation’s largest utility to go back to the negotiating table and come up with a solution fairly quickly.

A Georgia family of six escaped their burning home early Wednesday morning after their Christmas tree draped in lights was left plugged in overnight, causing the fire, officials said.

More wildfires are impacting homes, businesses, and communities every year, and their impacts go well beyond the area of direct exposure to the fire and burning. Smoke and wildfire residues can travel long distances and settle on surfaces or infiltrate building structures, potentially causing damages and impacting human health.

Already battling one lawsuit over a massive landslide last winter, Sausalito and Caltrans are now facing a second. Winston Ashmead, who owns one of the properties damaged during the storm in February, alleges that a Caltrans project near Highway 101 and a road cut at the base of the hill above the property channeled water onto the hill and caused the slide, said Steven Blum, the plaintiff’s attorney.

On his first day on the job, the Fort Worth Fire Department’s newest accelerants detection dog, Buzzy, sniffed out leads for investigators.

California on Thursday ordered a one-year halt on insurance companies dropping customers in wildfire-prone areas at a time when state insurers are trying to limit spiraling costs from climate change.

For years, organizations have employed remote sensing technologies that obtain information about objects or areas from a distance—typically from aircraft or satellites—to assess impacts from natural disasters like hurricanes. But today, thanks to a convergence of factors, including a dramatic drop in remote sensing costs, greater availability of more detailed and abundant data, and advances in artificial intelligence, the technology is increasingly being used to mitigate property risks.

California and the rest of the western U.S. face a billion-dollar-a-year risk in flood damages from so-called “atmospheric rivers”, the huge plumes of moisture that periodically surge ashore from the sub-tropics, according to a study published Wednesday by UC San Diego.