The images are ones of devastation — scorched homes, virtually whole neighborhoods burned to the ground. It rained a little Sunday morning in Fort McMurray, but Canadian officials say they expect to fight the massive wildfire that has destroyed large parts of Alberta's oil sands town for months.

There's fear the growing wildfire could double in size and reach a major oil sands mine and even cross into the neighboring province of Saskatchewan.

A breakthrough from the biotech world has shown promise for curing deadly diseases, but now gene editing is listed by U.S. Intelligence as a possible "weapon of mass destruction."

This technology shows so much promise, but in this uncertain world, top U.S. officials are concerned about terrorists using it to find some new way to attack.

For the first time ever, Director of National Security James Clapper lists genome editing in his 2016 Worldwide Threat Assessment as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction and Proliferation".

The U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) today released the 2016 Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG2016), providing first responders with an updated go-to manual to help respond to hazardous materials transportation accidents during the critical first minutes.

On Tuesday, thick, black smoke from a burning building on Main Street enveloped an area north of downtown.

It’s very likely some, if not all, of the 16 firefighters who battled the blaze will write of the event into a new registry started in January at the Anderson Fire Department.

The registry puts Anderson in the forefront of a national movement, officials say. The registry keeps track of their exposures to various substances and chemicals while in the line of duty. The registry should help with future disability and insurance claims because of illnesses.

The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity wants to develop a hand-held, laser-based remote sensor that could detect and identify chemical weapons, explosives, narcotics and potentially even biological agents – all from up to 100 feet away.

The intelligence community’s research arm has awarded funding through the U.S. Air Force to five companies – LGS Innovations, Physical Sciences, Photonics Inc., Block Engineering Inc. and Leidos Inc. – through its Standoff Illuminator for Measuring Absorbance and Reflectance Infrared Light Signatures program.