One person is dead after an apartment fire late Tuesday night in Tacoma, according to the Tacoma Fire Department. The department said crews responded around 11:47 p.m. to the 200 block of North Yakima Avenue after reports of flames coming from an apartment building. When firefighters arrived, they found flames climbing from a first-floor unit up the side of the building. Crews quickly extinguished the fire, officials said.

The fire was contained to one apartment unit and part of the building’s exterior. The department confirmed one person died in the fire. All other occupants safely escaped, and no other injuries were reported. Officials urged people to use caution in the area as firefighters and Tacoma police remain on scene investigating the cause.

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The Shoreline Fire Department says it extinguished flames at a vacant building that used to be a nursing home. The department was dispatched to the building on 15th Avenue NE around 3:45 on Wednesday after the fire alarm went off.

Crews arrived to find no smoke or fire initially. Upon investigation, fire and smoke were found in an adjacent property on the west side of the building. Firefighters brought the fire under control and completed an extensive search of the building. The cause was determined to be an electrical fire originating in the panel room. There were no injuries reported.

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A massive fire near Livermore was brought under control Wednesday evening after flames destroyed a barn and scorched nearby buildings amid dry, grassy conditions.

The blaze, named the Tesla Fire, broke out around 2:30 p.m. on a property near Tesla and Cross roads.

Crews from CAL FIRE and the Alameda County Fire Department arrived to find two large barns and surrounding brush fully engulfed in flames.

“It was very smoky conditions, very life-threatening smoke, so what we had to do was attack it from the outside,” said CAL FIRE Battalion Chief Alex Mikesell.

Vehicles, propane tanks, and welding equipment stored inside the structures triggered multiple explosions during the fire, sending a large fireball and thick black smoke into the air.

Neighbors said they heard multiple loud pops during the explosions.

Firefighters spent several hours battling the blaze before bringing it under control after about five hours.

While crews kept the flames from spreading to nearby homes, the two barns were completely destroyed.

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VIDEO: The Village of Owego is welcoming back one of its heroes. The 1866 Amoskeag Steam Fire Engine is back after nearly four decades out of operation.

Patrick Gavin with the Owego Hose Team said the town is believed to own the oldest operating fire steam engine in the United States.

It began to be used just after the Civil War and made a major impact on the Owego Fire Department until the 1920s.

“Steam fire engines replaced bucket brigades and hand pumpers where firefighters would actually have to pump the pumps by hand in a large municipality that would, for a major fire, that would take an upwards of 100 to 150 firefighters to do that job,” Gavin said. “When the steam fire engine was created, it reduced that number down to two firefighters.”

But since the 1980s, the steamer has sat vacant at Owego’s central fire station. Assistant Fire Chief Charlie Olmstead said it was a shell of its former self.

“It was not workable whatsoever. It was just sitting there,” Olmstead said. “It was pretty much wasting away.”

But Gavin and the hose team were determined to bring it back to its former glory.

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The Gig Harbor Fire Department rescued a tiny kitten from a vehicle’s rear suspension. According to the department, the kitten ran into traffic and then climbed inside. “Not our typical extrication call,” they said. Engine 52 responded and safely rescued the tiny passenger with help from the police department and Eagle Tire. The kitten was okay and the department says it found its forever home. The department shared video of the rescue:

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