VIDEO: McKinney firefighters are investigating the cause of a large fire in Downtown on Sunday night. According to officials, the fire began just after midnight on North McDonald Street. Firefighters initially began fighting the blaze at a church on Wilcox. Several nearby homes were evacuated before the fire spread to a nearby house.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Fort Worth

VIDEO: After months of training, Lexington Firefighter class number 70 is ready to serve the city. This class has a unique story. For the first time in the department’s 151 years of service, a female recruit will follow in her father’s footsteps and become a Lexington Firefighter. In most cases, it’s the son who follows in his father’s firefighter boots.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKYT-TV CBS/CW 27 Lexington

Remington Embry, who graduated from Surry Community College’s first offering of the Firefighter Career & College Promise program, was recently hired as a full-time firefighter with Central Surry Volunteer Fire Department in Dobson. The statewide Career & College Promise (CCP) program gives juniors and seniors the opportunity to earn college credentials, tuition-free, while they are still in high school.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Mount Airy News

VIDEO: Dozens of people gathered in Hastings Sunday afternoon to learn about a local Black church that was set on fire over a century ago. Nobody was ever charged in connection with the fire. The Hastings community came to First Presbyterian Church to remember history that happened blocks away. Building Remembrance for Reconciliation, nonprofit, organized the event called “Breaking the Silence: Remembering Brown’s Chapel AME.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSTP-TV ABC 6 St. Paul

In late October 1947, residents of this small town on the Blue Hill Peninsula watched as ominous gray smoke rose high into the skies over Mount Desert Island. The summer had been bone dry—the state had only received about half its normal precipitation since the end of June—and a single careless spark might ignite a conflagration closer to home.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Penobscot Bay Press