Wood heat is one of the few home comforts that still feels elemental–but it rewards discipline. Treat chimney cleaning and ...

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The man who pleaded guilty to starting the Camp House Fire left a campfire smoldering while he left to buy fishing bait. Some ...

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Fire officials are sounding the alarm after a third fire occurred by homeless people trying to stay warm, wanting them to be safe.

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At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is ...

Evidence of a hearth dating to about 415,000 years ago Researchers think that Neanderthals were responsible Discovery made near the village of Barnham in Suffolk Dec 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have ...

Groundbreaking research has revealed the earliest known evidence of human fire-making in the UK, dating back over 400,000 years. This discovery, at a disused clay pit near Barnham, Suffolk, pushes the ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 years ago in what’s now Suffolk, England. Based on chemical analysis of the ...