Authorities are reminding residents to bag these items separately and leave them on top of bins for safe collection.

HERRIN (WSIL) -- You may have heard the dangers of vaping, but a few local residents saw a new danger from the smoking alternative. Around 4 a.m. Friday, the Herrin Fire Department responded to a 911 ...

The vaping industry generates waste that poses more than just fire hazards. Disposable vapes flood landfills with single-use ...

An exploding vape pen started a vehicle fire in northwest Kansas on Thursday, officials said. “Did you hear the fire siren this morning?” the Phillips County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post. ...

A Missouri man injured by an exploding vape won $2.3 million in a lawsuit, court documents show. Getty Images A Missouri man injured by an exploding vape recently won more than $2.3 million in a ...

A Pennsylvania man who claims he was badly burned when the battery for his vape pen exploded in his pants pocket is suing and international electronics giant in federal court in Harrisburg. Justin ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Fort Worth man has died after a vape pen exploded in his face and severed a major artery, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's office. William Brown, 24, died after ...

Householders have been warned not to put batteries in their wheelie bins after one "exploded" in a refuse lorry. Firefighters ...

ST. PETERSBURG (FOX 13) - The autopsy report for a man whose vape pen exploded, causing a fire in his St. Petersburg home, shows the exploding pen -- not the fire -- killed him. The autopsy report for ...

A Thai man died while fishing when his vape device exploded, marking the nation's first confirmed fatality linked to an ...

FREEHOLD, NJ — A woman experienced a scare while shopping at a mall in suburban New Jersey. Video shows her purse smoking and flames shooting out while checking out. The woman said the cause was the ...

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