Tag: fire insurance

Standard homeowners insurance typically covers damage to the home’s structure and its contents due to fires. That’s good then because you have fire insurance technically…

In an effort to reduce the number of house fires that began as burning mulch, and to avoid a greater number of hazard insurance claims,…

Vermont is having an unseasonably warm winter, and Fire Chief Doug Winot, of Townshend, says that means an increase in chimney fires. How does one…

Thanksgiving is tomorrow. It’s a day filled with food and festive spirits, but it’s also the top day of the year for cooking-related accidents and…

Oklahomans had better update their fire insurance policies, if the news from state forester George Geissler is accurate. He says that the heat and drought…

On Friday, North Carolina residents with homes near the Pender and Onslow county line have been advised to participate in a voluntary evacuation to avoid…

From flooding to hailstorms to fire, it seems the central United States can’t catch a break this week. In today’s installment of Environmental Hazards and…

On Tuesday the State of Virginia enacted a ban on the outdoor burning of brush, officially marking the beginning of the spring fire season, which…

While many private ambulance services ask local residents to pay an annual membership fee in order to defray costs of actually using an ambulance, some…