VIDEO: Four residents were displaced after a fire heavily damaged a home and attached garage on Clocks Boulevard Sunday evening, according to the Nassau County Fire Marshals.

Firefighters were dispatched at 6:21 p.m. and arrived to find a fully involved two-story home and attached two-story garage.

Approximately 100 firefighters from Massapequa and neighboring departments responded to battle the blaze.

One firefighter was transported to a hospital for possible heat exhaustion. No civilian injuries were reported.

The Nassau County Fire Marshal’s Hazardous Materials Division responded due to lithium-ion batteries in the garage. The fire remains under investigation by the Nassau County Fire Marshal’s Office and the Nassau County Police Department Arson/Bomb Squad.

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VIDEO: No injuries were reported after a fire truck was involved in a crash on Courthouse Road on Monday morning.

Fire officials say a crew was leaving to go to a structure fire call from Fire Station 20. The fire truck had a green light while the other lanes of traffic had a red light.

Officials said a dump truck headed south applied the brakes, but the truck’s real wheels locked up and jackknifed the trailer and truck.

The truck’s trailer became dislodged and went across the median before hitting the fire truck.

Officials said the truck’s emergency brake was not connected to the dump truck.

The truck’s Virginia State Inspection was also expired.

Fire officials say that while the fire engine had a green light, it was stopped waiting to turn right onto Courthouse Road when it was struck.

The driver was charged with reckless driving, failing to maintain proper control of his vehicle, and two counts of expired state inspection.

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The Seattle Fire Department (SFD) put out a fire at Billings Middle School in Northgate Monday morning.
Fire crews responded just after 7:30 am to a report of a fire in a school off 8th Ave NE. Crews on scene reported a small fire in the downstairs bathroom.

The fire was extinguished by the sprinkler system. SFD says they are working on ventilating and overhauling the building. No injuries were reported. School was been canceled for the day.

KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle

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A trailer home in Spokane Valley was severely damaged by a fire early Monday morning. It started around 1:30 a.m. on N Beige Street in Spokane Valley.

According to Spokane Valley Fire crews on scene, reports said someone was inside the trailer, but they did not find anyone during a search.

Fire crews later located a man outside and took him to the hospital for an assessment; he did not appear injured. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

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As wildfire season winds down, national fire response agencies have started tallying the year’s reports of drone flights that affected wildfire operations. Throughout the U.S., the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) recorded 82 illegal drone flights over active wildfires. Over half of those took place in Washington state — and all but 6 took place in Spokane.

The Spokane wildfire complex was the most destructive in Washington state history. A trio of fires on the outskirts of the city destroyed about 850 structures and displaced about 65,000 people, with damages estimated to exceed $1 billion. 37-year-old Aaron Farinacci was arrested Aug. 3 and charged with first-degree arson for his hand in starting one of the fires.

While firefighters continued to fight the flames, Daniel Ramey with California Interagency Incident Management Team 7 explained on Aug. 5 that drone incursions put a strain on firefighting efforts and are a “huge concern.”

“We have to ground all resources when they do that…it’s huge,” Ramey told KING 5. “We have fixed wing. We also have rotor wings, so we have helicopters, air tankers trying to assist the ground resources, and it’s a huge [issue].”

KREM-TV CBS 2 Spokane

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