A 6-year-old girl who escaped a house fire early Tuesday died after running back inside to find her mother. The youngster did not realize her mother had jumped to safety from a second-floor window. Firefighters found the body of little Da-Onah Watts under a bed on the second floor. Da-Onah and a 13-year-old cousin had been asleep on the first floor when they awoke to flames and ran from the house.

Sending flowers in time for Valentine's Day may be a little harder this year. The building housing the nation's largest flower shipping business burst into flames in southern Florida -- a week before Valentine's Day. The owner of Armellini Industries in Palm City said that 53 trucks transporting Valentine's Day flowers already were on the road when the building caught fire. The owner says the fire could not have come at a worse time.

A man who stepped out a few minutes to buy food came back to find his home in northwest Washington engulfed in flames Wednesday. The fire was so intense and the building so unstable that firefighters had to evacuate and fight the blaze from the outside. Neither owner Joe Howard nor any firefighters were injured during the blaze.

Firemen in Japan certainly felt the heat after their firehouse was engulfed in flames. A party was held there to mark the end of a fire awareness promotional event in the small town of Shimohetsugi, reports Reuters

A 1-month-old baby was thrown from the window of a burning third-floor apartment and safety caught by a man who plays catcher for his company's baseball team. Mother Tracinda Foxe, 30, was trapped by smoke and flames in the Bronx apartment on Wednesday. She prayed before dropping her son Eric Guzman, reports The Associated Press.