VIDEO: Home surveillance video from a Tulsa living room shows a dog chewing on a power bank with a lithium-ion battery inside. Suddenly, there is a flash, and a fire breaks out within minutes, leaving the two dogs and a cat in danger. "The thing that's important about this situation is how fast you see this fire progress,” said Andy Little with the Tulsa Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOTV-DT CBS 6 Tulsa

VIDEO: Outside the track of the AAU Junior Olympics in Greensboro, a beige tent is there for young athletes or spectators in need of medical attention. The tent is Guilford County Emergency Medical Services’ new EMS Medical Tent. Staffed with 12 personnel and stocked with everything found in an ambulance, Guilford County EMS says it’s prepared to take on what the AAU Junior Olympics may throw its way.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXII-TV NBC 12 Winston-Salem

VIDEO/PHOTOS: A ‘medical emergency’ caused a crash in Dandridge Wednesday morning after a firefighter passed out while driving. Dandridge Fire Chief Andy Riley shared that the driver and a lieutenant with the Dandridge Fire Department were out around 10:30 a.m. to do a weekly check of the department’s fire boat in Douglas Lake when the driver passed out behind the wheel.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WATE-TV ABC 6 Knoxville

San Francisco voters will decide in November whether to lower the retirement age from 58 to 55 for the city's firefighters, who risk cancer and death as part of their job. If more than half of voters on the Nov. 5 ballot approve the amendment to the city charter, members of the San Francisco Fire Department hired after Jan.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPIX-TV CBS 5 San Francisco

VIDEO/PHOTOS: Firefighters tackled a massive fire in Renton in an area that neighbors and fire crews confirm has been the site of a longtime homeless encampment that regularly has fires. Renton Regional Fire Authority reported investigators are looking into what sparked it, leading to estimated 40-foot flames just after 7 a.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle