ASHTABULA TOWNSHIP — Many residents of Ashtabula Township and Ashtabula were roused from slumber or an early breakfast with a large crashing sound around 6 a.m. Tuesday morning. The source of the ...

PATERSON — From an aerial platform extended almost 120 feet into the air, a worker using a hammer and chisel began pulling off bricks — one by one — from the top of an old factory smokestack near the ...

AVONDALE MILLS, AL (KTRK) -- An excavator operator is lucky to be alive after a smokestack scheduled for demolition crashed on top of him in Alabama. Tim Phifer watched with others in Avondale Mills ...

PELL CITY, Ala. – An Alabama demolition worker is grateful to be alive after an area historic landmark collapsed on him on Tuesday during a demolition that’s since garnered national media attention.

“Control” is the goal with controlled demolition. It’s all about using the physics of the explosion and gravity, the understanding of the architecture and terrain and the art of experience to bring ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The city executive who oversaw a botched smokestack implosion in the Little Village neighborhood four years ago has just been named the new commissioner of the Chicago Department of ...

Demolition crews said no one would have been able to make the Ohio Edison smoke stack fall the correct way. Thousands of people lost power when the stack on the property of the former Ohio Edison ...