An arson attack on a house in the North was sectarian, police said today.

A woman was injured when a light aircraft crash-landed in a field in Co Fermanagh today.

A French tourist has gone missing while walking in the Mourne Mountains, police said today.

A man being questioned by police about a fatal fire in Co Down was released without charge today.

An additional £14m (€17.92m) is to be spent replacing 26 fire stations across the North, it was announced today.

A man was arrested today after another man was pulled from an overnight house fire.

Several wives got dropped and more got a soaking when the first UK and Ireland Wife Carrying Championships were held today.

Two women had to be rescued early this morning after falling into mud flats at the edge of the River Lagan in Belfast.

Eight people were rescued today when the North was hit by torrential rain.

Gorse fires on Black Mountain in west Belfast and outside Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, were today both believed to have been started deliberately.

SEVEN firefighters have joined Limerick city’s fire service, the first group in 20 years to have been trained in Ireland.

A woman was arrested by police today in connection with a suspicious fire at flats in south Belfast.

Plans for a new policing training college in the North have finally been given the green light, the Northern Ireland secretary of state confirmed today.

A girl killed in the Omagh fire tragedy which claimed the lives of her mother, two sisters and two brothers made a 999 call to the emergency services just minutes before the house went up in flames, police revealed today.

Three men suspected of starting a fire which badly damaged three houses in Co Down, were arrested today.

Seven people in the one family are feared to have died in a house fire today.

UK fire crews are continuing their search for missing colleagues in a burnt-out warehouse tonight in what fire bosses have called an “immensely frustrating” operation.

Two women were being treated in hospital today after being rescued from a fire at a bed and breakfast.

Investigators were today examining the scene of a suspected arson attack which wrecked a pub.

A woman, her 10-year-old son and their pet dog were rescued from a fire today during an early morning arson attack on their home in Derry.

New flooding misery has hit households across the North as heavy rain lashed down overnight.

At least three teenage girls were seriously injured in a suspected gas explosion in a house today.

Four youths were being hunted by police today after an arson attack on a major electrical goods store.

Four youths were being hunted by police today after an arson attack on a major electrical goods store.

Cattle died in a fire on a farm early today which police suspect was started deliberately.

A couple in their 50s were taken to hospital today after they were rescued from a fire in a flat in Co Down.

Arsonists who set fire to a block of flats today may have been racially motivated, police believe.

Six people were rescued after a suspected arson attack on a block of flats today.

Ornamental candles burning in a bedroom are believed to have started a fire in which a man died.

TRIBUTES were paid last night to two fire officers killed when a devastating explosion ripped through a fireworks depot.

A six-year-old boy tonight became the latest victim of an Easter weekend of carnage on the North’s roads.

A fire in Derry’s Altnagelvin Hospital was tonight thought by police to have been started deliberately.

A 39-year-old man was being treated in hospital for serious injuries after being rescued from a fire in a block of flats on the Co Antrim coast today.

Fire crews were attacked after being lured to west Belfast by a hoax call early today.

Two children were being treated in hospital today after a housefire which police suspect was started deliberately.

Police and fire crews were pelted with bricks and fireworks during a mob attack in Derry last night.

Fire Service specialists rescued a seriously injured man from a river in Co Tyrone today.

The Northern Ireland Fire Brigade became a thing of the past today when it was re-branded as the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service.