Dallas Fire Rescue said dozens of people were displaced at Campbridge Park Condominiums at 11490 Audelia Road in Northeast Dallas.

DFR said they were called out around 1:00 Friday morning for a structure fire at the condos. They said they were met with fire coming from the roof of the three-story building.

“Attack teams moved in to fight the fire offensively, but since the fire was well into its advanced stages, a second-alarm response was quickly dispatched,” DFR said in a statement.

They said a third-alarm was called for more help. About 60 to 60 firefighters were on scene at one point to battle the blaze.

“When I came outside of my condo, I didn’t see anything. I had to drop to my knees and crawl down three flights of stairs. When I looked up, I could look and see that my condo was gone,” one resident told NBC 5. At least 24 condos were destroyed, and more than 40 people have been displaced. DFR said no injuries were reported.

KXAS-TV NBC 5 Fort Worth

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VIDEO: Fountain Hills firefighters are busy this summer. They are not putting out house fires, but rather going on calls for snakes. Fountain Hills fire crews went on about 1,100 snake calls last fiscal year.

That breaks down to about three calls a day. A single shift went on six calls before noon. Those calls come in several times a day, especially in the summer, and it is the fire department’s job to remove and relocate the creatures.

Many people may think Fountain Hills firefighters go on a lot of fire calls, but medical calls actually top the list, and right below medical emergencies are calls for snakes, and it becomes quickly apparent how fast those calls can come in.

Cameras were rolling for 30 seconds when a snake call came in. By 10:00 a.m., it was already the fourth call of the day. The snake was a smaller one, sitting in a corner outside a home.

This was not the first rodeo for the homeowner. “Rather not kill the snakes, but I don’t want to see him released. You know right across the wash cause they come back,” resident David Cook said.

Firefighter Rocky Craig snatched the snake with a snake grabber, threw it into a bucket, and then released it into the wild away from any homes. It is a dangerous job, but somebody has to do it.

KSAZ-TV FOX 10 Phoenix

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VIDEO: Astronauts want to light it up on the moon — for science. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as part of its Artemis program, is planning to conduct combustion experiments on the lunar surface to better understand how fire operates outside of Earth.

Think of a lit match. On Earth, the flame has a distinct, upward teardrop shape. This happens due to gravity, with hotter air rising, creating the yellow trail as it burns up. In space, a flame instead takes on the shape of a blue sphere, representing a slower, cooler burn, referred to as a “cool flame.”

NASA’s prior combustion experiments on the International Space Station showed that fire behaves differently in space. The microgravity on the ISS is about 90% of Earth’s gravity (known mathematically as 1g). The gravity on the moon is about 16.667% of 1g, meaning the moon’s gravity is one-sixth that of Earth’s gravity.

With such low but stable gravity, we can expect flames on the moon not to behave as they would on Earth. The burn rate in lunar gravity is sometimes referred to as a “Goldilocks zone” for studying combustion, due to flames lasting longer than they usually do.

Another difference between fire on Earth and in space is what’s left behind. With a normal lit flame, carbon dioxide and water are produced, but once the visible, yellow flame is gone, the cool, blue flame produces carbon monoxide and formaldehyde.

The lunar experiment is called Flammability of Materials on the Moon, or FM2. It would be the “first-ever combustion experiment to be performed on another planetary body” and marks “a critical step in determining material flammability and safety for future missions,” according to NASA.

KHBS-TV ABC/CW+ 40 Fort Smith

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Emergency officials have issued a Level 3 “Go Now” evacuation order for an area west of Okanogan as a wildfire burning on Pogue Mountain continued moving north Thursday evening. The evacuation applied to all roads west of Conconully Highway from Kermal Road to Green Lake Road, according to Okanogan County Emergency Management.

Officials said the fire is burning on Pogue Mountain above Vic Smith Road and is heading north. Residents in the evacuation area were told to leave immediately and not wait for additional notifications or door-to-door contact. “This may be your only evacuation notice,” Okanogan County Emergency Management said in its alert.

KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

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PHOTOS: Three firefighters from eastern Washington providing mutual aide were injured in the Chelan Hills wildfire last week in what the fire chief calls “a near tragic burnover.” South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue Chief Shane Stocking says his department mobilized three brush engines and two water tenders to support strike teams on the massive wildfire on July 4th.

Around 3:00 that afternoon, what Stocking calls “unprecedented fire behavior” overran the strike teams. Stocking says several state and local fire department resources were lost, including an engine from South Pend Oreille Fire and an engine from Stevens County Fire District 11.

Two South Pend Oreille firefighters were taken to the hospital by ambulance and admitted, but have since been released. A firefighter from Stevens County District 11 also had a firefighter transported, who has also been released. DNR also confirms it lost a truck, but said those firefighters made it to a safe zone and were not hurt. Stocking’s news release is the first public confirmation of the burnover and loss of state and local resources.

“Make no mistake, these brave firefighters made decisions to flee for their lives and should be commended for their decision making and actions,” said Chief Stocking. “This kind of burnover does not happen often in this state,” he said. “Early in this wildfire season, we are seeing multiple examples of extreme fire behavior in the wildland-urban-interface. SPOFR is beyond proud of our members for making decisions to save their lives in the face of catastrophic fire events, as is the leadership at Stevens County District 11.”

The Chelan Hills Fire has burned nearly 10,000 acres and 100 structures. The most incident report says the fire is 75% contained.

One person died trying to escape the fire in their vehicle.

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