The Towering Inferno takes the better part of an hour before the plot literally heats up, but the disaster was the prime attraction for this movie. People came to the theater to watch the building ...

Or if not directly caused, then aided and abetted. The culmination — the ultimate movie of its kind — was "The Towering Inferno," which opened 50 years ago this month, on Dec. 14, 1974.

Throughout the 1970s, audiences couldn't get enough of disaster movies. The decade began with the all-star blockbuster bomb-on-a-plane thrill ride Airport, based on Arthur Hailey's best-seller.

In the heat of Southern California’s most destructive fire season, Los Angeles residents were left watching helplessly as ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The culmination — the ultimate movie of its kind — was "The Towering Inferno," which opened 50 years ago this month, on Dec. 14 ...

The Pacific Palisades fire, a towering inferno fuelled by the hurricane-strength ... Like a script in a poorly-written movie, a clip of a fireman scooping water out of a pothole with a traffic ...

The situation prompted the Los Angeles Fire Department to take the rare step of putting out a plea for off-duty firefighters ...

The LA fireball is the new normal—a new genre of urban fire that requires novel thinking and next-practice responses to ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Multiple massive wildfires tore across the Los Angeles area with devastating force early Wednesday, ...