VIDEO/PHOTOS: Firefighters in West Covina battled a massive residential structure fire that engulfed the rear of a home Thursday night.

The fire was reported at around 10:30 p.m. at 3012 Cameron Avenue, near Virginia Lane, KTLA Sky5 reporter Gil Leyvas reported.

Crews with the West Covina Fire Department arrived quickly, but the rear of the home was fully engulfed in flames, while aerial footage of the blaze captured a neighbor using a water hose to try and protect nearby trees from igniting and possibly sparking a fire on the adjacent property.

Details remain limited and it’s unclear how the fire started, nor is it clear if anyone has been injured as a result of the blaze.

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In more than 40 years as a volunteer firefighter with the North Patchogue Fire Department on Long Island, Bob Meyer has been in the middle of a lot of life and death situations.

A couple of years ago, he was facing his own. Meyer, also a retired corrections officer, needed a heart transplant after a procedure to repair an aortic aneurysm at a local hospital was unsuccessful, and his heart was damaged. “Basically, they told me my heart wasn’t going to get any better,” he said.

He got on the heart transplant list locally in New York, knowing that he would likely have to become very sick before he would qualify for a donor heart, if a matching one could be found.

He had no way of knowing at the time that a chance encounter would point him to the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, and he would receive a new heart nearly 1,000 miles away.

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PHOTOS: A lithium-ion battery from a hoverboard scooter began burning overnight and sparked an explosion that triggered a massive industrial scrapyard fire off U.S. Highway 90 in Jefferson County, destroying about $750,000 worth of high-value scrap metal, according to information Jefferson County Emergency Services District 3 Fire Chief Phillip Kibodeaux provided to KFDM News.

The fire was reported at about 5 a.m. at Scrapworks Industrial LLC, 12070 Highway 90 West, just past ExxonMobil and the Beaumont Municipal Airport.

Chief Kibodeaux says the company had separated a lithium-ion battery from a hoverboard scooter, and the battery began burning at about 2:30 a.m.

The batteries create intense heat, and the chief says the battery fire caused something to blow up and started a fire in another scrap pile.

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PHOTOS: A fire tore through a Tumwater apartment complex Thursday afternoon. It happened right across the street from the fire department at Suncrest Apartments. The fire chief said they got the 911 call at the station, then walked out of the building, saw smoke, and rushed over.

Firefighters are still out there, hours after getting this under control. One fire chief told KIRO 7 News that they could be there overnight. The flames ripped across the roof of the apartment block and have impacted roughly 30 units.

The chief told KIRO 7 News that one man had to be rescued from the second floor as the flames tore across the roof. Several others were treated out here for smoke inhalation, but nobody was transported to hospitals; some were urged to go to urgent care if they felt like they needed it.

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Benton Public Utility District officials are investigating after the Benton County Sheriff’s Office’s investigation into the devastating Second Street Fire found the fire likely started due to electrical sparks from Benton PUD equipment that failed for currently unknown reasons.

Benton PUD officials said the Benton County Sheriff’s Office’s report about their investigation into the Second Street Fire attributed the cause to electrical arcing at the end of a Benton PUD overhead high-voltage power line. Benton PUD said they cooperated fully with the BCSO’s investigation, and have provided detailed information about the electrical system and equipment in the area.

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