Engine 12-3 is a 2025 E-ONE Cyclone pumper equipped with a 2,000-gpm Hale Qmax pump, a 750-gallon water tank, and a 30-gallon Class B foam cell.

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PHOTOS: Crews battled a massive fire in a 24,000 square foot mansion in the elite Los Angeles neighborhood of Beverly Crest Tuesday. L.A. City Fire started battling the blaze in the 300 block of Delfern Drive, north of Sunset Boulevard, at approximately 1:45 p.m. About 150 personnel were on scene, LAFD said. By 5:30 p.m., firefighters appeared to be getting the upper hand on the fire.

Sky5’s Gil Leyvas was over the fire at 5:30 p.m., where white smoke could be seen rising from the roof of the massive home, which was under construction. One chimney reportedly partially collapsed. Firefighters were ordered off the roof around 4:30 p.m. and operations had continued from the exterior of the structure due to safety concerns, according to LAFD.

Access to the home was slowed due to the home’s heavy construction, officials said. Firefighters worked to salvage items like artwork and other valuables from the water, smoke and flames. The fire didn’t appear to spread to any of the brush in the area or any neighboring homes. No injuries have been reported to any occupants or workers in the home, officials say. Everyone on the property is accounted for.

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VIDEO: A new interactive tool developed right here in Cincinnati is helping teach kids how to stay safe during a fire—using something many already love: video games. It all started with a visit to the Cincinnati Fire Museum.

“We went to the Cincinnati Fire Museum,” said D’Arcy Smith, director of the University of Cincinnati’s Digital Performance Lab. “It’s got a really interesting mix of both historical things to look at in terms of firefighting in general.” But during that visit with his kids, Smith noticed something missing. “My kids… there wasn’t a ton of interactive things for them to do,” he said.

So Smith, a professor at the University of Cincinnati, decided to build something himself. He teamed up with student Tyler McCall to create Fire Escape, an interactive video game designed to teach kids what to do in a house fire. “We coded maybe how to jump, and you do the rest,” McCall said. “Everything else—the house itself, every item in it, the character models, all of it.”

The team even brought the game to life by voicing characters themselves, alongside students from Cincinnati State Technical and Community College.

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VIDEO/PHOTOS: Two people are dead after a shooting near Kent’s Panther Lake neighborhood on Tuesday night. Officers were called to the area along SE 210th Pl around 10:20 p.m. after receiving reports of a possible drive-by shooting outside a home.

Kent police did not provide any information at the scene, but an officer at an unrelated fatal stabbing outside the Meeker Street Bar & Grill confirmed that two people had died in the shooting. The stabbing and the shooting scene are about 6 miles apart and are not related.

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Within months of becoming chief of Double Creek Volunteer Fire and Rescue in November 2025, Jimmy Brown received sobering news: His station’s well water was contaminated with PFAS at levels that exceeded federal limits.

The station in Pinnacle, northwest of Winston‑Salem near Pilot Mountain, is one of 392 rural fire departments across the state whose wells were tested for PFAS in a recent study.

Since the revelation in 2016 that PFAS, or per‑ and polyfluoroalkyl substances, were being released into the Cape Fear River by the Fayetteville-based Chemours, awareness of the chemicals has risen across the state.

PFAS have come to be known as “forever chemicals” since they resist breaking down in the environment. They also have been linked to multiple health risks.

The study was conducted by the North Carolina Collaboratory, a research group formed in 2016 by the General Assembly. The collaboratory harnesses the expertise of university researchers to address state and local government issues.

Jeff Warren, executive director of the collaboratory, which is based at UNC Chapel Hill, said researchers initially focused on collecting and destroying containers of PFAS‑laden firefighting foam under a legislature‑funded Aqueous Film‑Forming Foam Take‑Back Program.

Building on that work, collaboratory researchers decided to test wells at rural fire departments and later shared a list of stations with elevated PFAS readings with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality.

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