PHOTOS: A house fire on Detroit’s west side early Tuesday morning spread to the house next door, but the Detroit Fire Department confirmed that no one was injured in the large fire.

The fire happened around 4:30 a.m. at a home in the 1660 block of Burlingame Street. The house, which neighbors say is a vacant home, has been ruled a total loss by fire officials.

Battalion Chief Jeffrey Urbas told us that by the time first responders got there, it was not safe to send firefighters in, because fire was coming from all the windows and the roof. The fire extended to the second floor of the home next door, but DFD got the lone occupant of that next door home out.

“It’s a big home,” Urbas said. “Old construction, heavy timber, so yea like I said, it was going through the roof, I could see it coming here myself. It was a big fire.”

The fire proceeded to spread to the ground, but DFD was able to contain the fire quickly. Demontae Moore lives across the street from the house that caught fire. “Literally I had gotten off of work at 12 (am), so it had been a long night,” Moore said.

“By the time I get home, fast forward a few hours, I haven’t even been asleep yet. It just so happened that I heard crackling at first, and I was thinking it was behind my house, actually in the alley, but it just so happened to be in the front. I look in the front, I woke up my sister, I happen to look out the window and the whole house was ablaze.”

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Therapy dogs brought some much-needed smiles and comfort to fire crews battling the Paradise and Hagen Fires in Walla Walla and Umatilla Counties. Go Team Therapy Dogs TriCities and Go Team Walla Walla Therapy Dogs spent part of the week with crews working around the fires.

The visits brought comfort and a morale boost to people dealing with long shifts, hot weather and high winds. The therapy dogs included Aspen, Jazz, Norman, Roscoe, Ernie, Olivia and Luke. Their role at camp was centered on supporting crews who were working away from home.

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VIDEO: Pregnant firefighters across the nation are struggling with their departments’ reproductive health policies, and a nonprofit created in Washington is working to change that.

Maia Brown has been a firefighter in Washington for 14 years. She said when she first started working, the thought that her career had any effect on her reproductive health never came to mind.

“But as time passed, something inspired me to look into it,” she said. And when she did look into it, Brown said she found that most of the research focused on male firefighters.

“But it didn’t seem like too far of a stretch to imagine that if it’s affecting the men, it’s affecting the women too,” Brown said.

The exposures at play include toxins from fighting active fires, heat, stress, sleep disruption, chemicals in cleaning supplies, and exhaust in the apparatus bay, to name a few.

So, back in 2018, Brown started a website, meant to be a placeholder for the research she could find. “Over time it’s evolved,” she said. “There’s become such an incredible community of people that are also invested in this.”

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PHOTOS: A Martin County Sheriff’s Office helicopter crew is being credited with spotting a large fire late Sunday night and helping get firefighters to the scene before the flames spread to a nearby home.

The MCSO Air One pilot and tactical flight observer were on patrol around 10:30 p.m. when they noticed flames coming from a detached garage along Southwest Martin Highway, according to the sheriff’s office. he crew immediately alerted deputies and Martin County Fire Rescue.

Firefighters arrived to find the roughly 1,600-square-foot structure engulfed in flames, with its roof already gone. The sheriff’s office said the fire was threatening the main home on the property. Crews were able to contain the blaze before it reached the house.

The homeowners were not home at the time, according to MCSO. No one was injured.

Firefighters found a Class C motorhome and a Jeep inside the structure. The sheriff’s office said the garage and both vehicles were completely destroyed.

MCSO praised the Air One crew and responding deputies and firefighters, saying the helicopter crew’s discovery allowed emergency crews to reach the property in time to keep the flames from spreading to the home. Martin County Fire Rescue said the State Fire Marshal was notified. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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An apartment fire in Cathlamet, left 21 people displaced from their homes Monday morning. Crews with the Cathlamet Fire Department were called out to the building, located near Front and Main streets, around 2:15 a.m. There, they found the building engulfed in flames with “multiple power lines arcing throughout the area.”

A fire department spokesman said that flames burned through the roof of the three-story building, and the apartments were a total loss. Seven people needed medical treatment at the scene, but were released without needing to go to the hospital. One neighbor told KGW that the apartment was a low-income building that also served as a homeless shelter.

“A lot of them just came out with pajamas on or one guy you know with no clothes on no shoes … Red Cross hasn’t been there yet,” she said. Crews were able to stop the worst of the flames, and will be in the area for some time to thoroughly extinguish the building, according to the department.

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