Just three days into the New Year, Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins says the fire department has had a busy start to 2024 due to vacant building fires. Two of those fires were in large vacant buildings. One was near Northgate on Tuesday and the other was on New Year's Day in Seattle's First Hill Neighborhood.
- PUB DATE: 1/4/2024 12:57:34 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle

VIDEO: Firefighters battled a massive fire at the South Florida home of Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill on Wednesday afternoon. The fire broke out shortly before 2 p.m. at the home in the 16000 block of Berkshire Court in a gated community in Southwest Ranches. Aerial footage from Chopper 6 showed heavy smoke coming from the mansion as crews poured water onto it and firefighters cut holes into sections of the roof.
- PUB DATE: 1/4/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVJ-TV NBC 6 Miami

PHOTOS: Just six decades ago, you had a better chance of surviving a gunshot wound during the Vietnam War than by being treated in an ambulance on the way to the hospital in the U.S. It's hard to imagine American cities without the blaring, screeching presence of ambulances, but in fact, emergency response services are a relatively new phenomenon.
- PUB DATE: 1/4/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Clinton Chronicle

VIDEO: Every winter when conditions are right, volunteers in Eagle River cut nearly 300 blocks of ice from a local lake and stack them into an ice castle. The last ice castle built was 2 years ago and time is running out for this year. The month of December was unusually warm, which is affecting communities like Eagle River.
- PUB DATE: 1/4/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander

VIDEOS: Wednesday marked 10 years since a fire ripped through what was then Fifth Third Ballpark, forcing the West Michigan Whitecaps to overhaul their plans for the season and rebuild on the fly, all while welcoming fans to the field. The fire started late in the morning on Jan. 3, 2014. Investigators determined that a space heater used by a work crew inside one of the suites along the first base line started the blaze.
- PUB DATE: 1/4/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WOOD-TV NBC 8 Grand Rapids