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Chinese sky lanterns, or Kongming lanterns, are decorative paper lanterns that create stunning light displays at weddings, festivals and parties. When choosing lanterns for an event, there are a ...

Lanterns have ended up in trees and on tents at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, which draws tens of thousands of fans to two NASCAR races each year, he said. A fire blamed on a sky lantern at a ...

Sky lanterns are photographed during a festival in Taiwan in 2014. A lantern festival planned for an open field south of Mather Airport has been canceled by county fire officials who say such ...

A Southern California TikToker caught a group of careless idiots launching lantern balloons with lit candles into the sky near a nature preserve — even as wildfires incinerated Los Angeles.

Amid concerns over potential fire threats, Canton officials have decided to ban sky lanterns – small hot air balloons that float skyward holding a flame. Fire Chief Joshua Meier said the ...

Investigators from the Office of the Fire Marshal have determined that the cause of the fire was a sky lantern. The Ocean City Fire Department is now cautioning citizens against the use of sky ...

Long before the luminescent spectacle awed viewers of Disney's 2010 film "Tangled," real-life lantern festivals have been taking place around the world. In China, sky lanterns were first used as a ...