Mount Vernon officials said the fire broke out shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday at an apartment building on Cottage Avenue.

The cause of a fire at a former nightclub in Wigan town centre remains unknown, police have said, as an investigation is launched into the cause of the blaze on Saturday night. Six fire engine crews rushed to the empty building in King Street after it caught fire at about 22:30 GMT.

Video shows the roaring fire before about 80 firefighters arrived to battle the blaze as it spread to a neighboring house.

A five-alarm fire tore through a vacant church in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, on Friday morning, officials say.Chopper 3 was over the scene at a church building on North Hanover and Chestnut streets before 7 a.

Two people were trapped in a burning townhouse in Southwest Portland on Saturday morning and managed to escape the flames by jumping off their home’s two second-story balconies, officials said.

POTTSTOWN — An early-morning fire gutted a historic vacant church at the corner of Chestnut and North Hanover streets on Friday. Completed in 1861 and formerly known as Transfiguration Lutheran Church, it was later occupied by Invictus Ministries Inc.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Wednesday it has taken the suspect, Lawrence Reed, into federal custody in connection with the attack.

A second fire broke out Thursday morning at a key aluminum supplier to Ford and other automakers. A Sept. 16 fire at the plant reduced production of F-150 pickups and other models. Thursday’s fire appears to be in the same area of the plant, said people familiar with the matter.