An apartment fire in Aurora displaced about 50 residents and sent two to the hospital.

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Hazelwood will ask voters in August to approve a $14 million bond for a new fire station.

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VIDEO: The Country Meadows fire near Badger Canyon was 90 percent contained as evacuations were scaled back and outside crews left the area. The fire threatened more than 150 homes over the weekend and attention is shifting to what caused it and whether the person responsible could face consequences. Firefighters said the fire spread quickly uphill Saturday afternoon and moved toward homes in the Triple Vista area within minutes.

The Major family said they noticed smoke after getting home from a soccer game and then soon had to rush to evacuate with their children and pets. “I said the smoke looked really close to our house and Shane got a little sacred because it looked like it was on top of our house,” a family member said. The fire burned as much as 1,700 acres, destroyed one shop and damaged some nearby properties after flames came within feet of backyards.

The Major family said their trampoline melted, landscaping blocks were damaged and several shrubs and trees burned. “We’re pretty sure that the helicopter buckets actually probably saved our house,” a family member said. Investigators confirmed the fire was human-caused. That raised new questions about responsibility as the response moved into a new phase.

KNDO-TV NBC 23 Yakima

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VIDEO: The Cleveland Division of Fire responded to a massive fire under I-490 in Cleveland’s Industrial Valley neighborhood early Tuesday morning.

The call came in around 4:14 a.m., and according to the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) traffic cameras, the fire was near the 2900 block of Independence Road in a two-story abandoned factory building.

The building had been vacant for decades, according to firefighters. Cleveland Fire had a total of nine crews on the scene, including multiple ladders. There were no injuries reported.

According to ODOT, the right lane was blocked on I-490 East beyond I-90 and I-71. Cleveland Fire is still investigating the cause as crews begin to wrap up operations after working through the morning.

WOIO-TV CBS 19 Cleveland

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VIDEO: The city of Oshkosh has put its first-ever motor-driven fire truck up for auction, but the former mayor who helped bring it back to Oshkosh 16 years ago says he’s disappointed that the city would let a piece of its history go.

Bidding starts at $5,000 for the 110-plus-year-old fire truck, a number that is lower than its initial purchase price dating back to 1915, when the city partnered with a prominent automobile dealership in Oshkosh to purchase the fire truck for $6,800.

It stayed in active service until 1948, when it was retired and only used for public events for nine more years. The city of Oshkosh then sold the fire truck, which would go through many different owners, experiencing both deterioration and restoration over several decades.

In 2009, an Oshkosh fire captain found the fire truck in Princeton, Illinois, and arranged for then-Mayor Paul Esslinger and other fire officials to meet with the owner and do an inspection.

They liked what they saw, and by 2010, Esslinger purchased the fire truck for $10,000, donating it back to the city. Esslinger, who currently sits on the Oshkosh City Council, said learning about the auction posting for the first time felt like a slap in the face.

“I haven’t been told that there’s space needs or anything along that line, and if there was, I think there are plenty of people that would be more than happy to store it for the city, when it’s not going to be used,” Esslinger said.

“It’s just a great historical piece and one that I think, the kids would have loved to ride on in parades and whatever, so getting rid of it is just, it’s baffling to me.”

WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

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