WEST BEND -- Officials with the Washington County Sheriff's Office say a hot kettle machine is to blame for a garage fire that happened in West Bend early on Thursday morning, May 19th. It happened ...

His family calls it a freak accident: last month, a local man fell off a roof and into a hot kettle of tar. Family members said 66-year-old Vietnam veteran Danny Madden has died six weeks after the ...

Workers work on the Physical Education building at Odessa High Wednesday. A fire on the roof broke out Tuesday evening with little to no damage. Michael Bauer|Odessa American Odessa Fire Rescue ...

A St. Louis-area man is in an induced coma after falling into hot tar.The accident happened earlier this month, leaving Danny Madden, 66, with third-degree burns over 65 percent of his body.Madden and ...

ST.LOUIS (NBC News) - A 66-year-old St. Louis man is in an induced coma after falling into a kettle of hot tar. Family members say Vietnam Veteran Danny Madden and his son were working on a roof in ...

A malfunctioning tar kettle caused a fire at a construction site near Bellevue High School Friday. Fire officials said the thermometer of kettle, which can hold as much as 600 gallons of hot tar, ...

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Mar. 15—Odessa Fire Rescue Interim Chief Jason Cotton said Wednesday afternoon the fire on the rooftop of the physical education building on the campus of Odessa High School was caused by a hot tar ...