PHOTOS: Crews battled a massive fire in a 24,000 square foot mansion in the elite Los Angeles neighborhood of Beverly Crest Tuesday. L.A. City Fire started battling the blaze in the 300 block of Delfern Drive, north of Sunset Boulevard, at approximately 1:45 p.m. About 150 personnel were on scene, LAFD said. By 5:30 p.m., firefighters appeared to be getting the upper hand on the fire.

Sky5’s Gil Leyvas was over the fire at 5:30 p.m., where white smoke could be seen rising from the roof of the massive home, which was under construction. One chimney reportedly partially collapsed. Firefighters were ordered off the roof around 4:30 p.m. and operations had continued from the exterior of the structure due to safety concerns, according to LAFD.

Access to the home was slowed due to the home’s heavy construction, officials said. Firefighters worked to salvage items like artwork and other valuables from the water, smoke and flames. The fire didn’t appear to spread to any of the brush in the area or any neighboring homes. No injuries have been reported to any occupants or workers in the home, officials say. Everyone on the property is accounted for.

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VIDEO: A new interactive tool developed right here in Cincinnati is helping teach kids how to stay safe during a fire—using something many already love: video games. It all started with a visit to the Cincinnati Fire Museum.

“We went to the Cincinnati Fire Museum,” said D’Arcy Smith, director of the University of Cincinnati’s Digital Performance Lab. “It’s got a really interesting mix of both historical things to look at in terms of firefighting in general.” But during that visit with his kids, Smith noticed something missing. “My kids… there wasn’t a ton of interactive things for them to do,” he said.

So Smith, a professor at the University of Cincinnati, decided to build something himself. He teamed up with student Tyler McCall to create Fire Escape, an interactive video game designed to teach kids what to do in a house fire. “We coded maybe how to jump, and you do the rest,” McCall said. “Everything else—the house itself, every item in it, the character models, all of it.”

The team even brought the game to life by voicing characters themselves, alongside students from Cincinnati State Technical and Community College.

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Within months of becoming chief of Double Creek Volunteer Fire and Rescue in November 2025, Jimmy Brown received sobering news: His station’s well water was contaminated with PFAS at levels that exceeded federal limits.

The station in Pinnacle, northwest of Winston‑Salem near Pilot Mountain, is one of 392 rural fire departments across the state whose wells were tested for PFAS in a recent study.

Since the revelation in 2016 that PFAS, or per‑ and polyfluoroalkyl substances, were being released into the Cape Fear River by the Fayetteville-based Chemours, awareness of the chemicals has risen across the state.

PFAS have come to be known as “forever chemicals” since they resist breaking down in the environment. They also have been linked to multiple health risks.

The study was conducted by the North Carolina Collaboratory, a research group formed in 2016 by the General Assembly. The collaboratory harnesses the expertise of university researchers to address state and local government issues.

Jeff Warren, executive director of the collaboratory, which is based at UNC Chapel Hill, said researchers initially focused on collecting and destroying containers of PFAS‑laden firefighting foam under a legislature‑funded Aqueous Film‑Forming Foam Take‑Back Program.

Building on that work, collaboratory researchers decided to test wells at rural fire departments and later shared a list of stations with elevated PFAS readings with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality.

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PHOTOS: Firefighters battled a massive six-alarm blaze that investigators believe was intentionally set in San Bernardino County early Tuesday morning.

Multiple agencies responded around 12:30 a.m. to a fire reported at the approximately one-million-square-foot Kimberly-Clark warehouse near South Hellman Avenue and Merrill Avenue in Ontario.

Video from the scene showed flames ripping through the roof of the warehouse as first-arriving crews immediately called for a second-alarm response to bring in more firefighting resources.

The fire, fueled by paper products stored inside the facility, eventually escalated to a six-alarm incident. Units from several neighboring departments assisted the Ontario Fire Department, according to San Bernardino County Fire officials.

As of 5 a.m., firefighters had shifted to a defensive strategy, pouring water on the hours-long blaze from ladder trucks positioned around the warehouse.

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VIDEO: Some New Hampshire firefighters have started the first phase of a new medical screening program that aims to catch cancer before it becomes deadly.

Officials said they believe the state’s comprehensive approach will set a new nationwide standard. “Firefighters are conditioned to take care of everyone else first,” said retired Nashua Fire Chief Glenn Telgen. “These exams are about ensuring we also take care of our own.”

Telgen is battling pancreatic cancer. He’s urging his fellow career firefighters to participate in a new, state-funded comprehensive cancer screening program that launched Monday. Gov. Kelly Ayotte and fire service leaders from across the state gathered Monday to announce that the first firefighters started receiving their cancer screenings under the new program that morning.

Lawmakers passed a $5 million appropriation in 2024 to fund the initiative, which runs firefighters through a battery of tests, including CT scans, full-body ultrasounds and extensive blood work.

“It’s historic, because it’s the first state or province in our international union across two great countries to do something with CT scans, the diagnostic ultrasounds and the blood tests, that trifecta … is going to save lives,” said Jay Colbert, IAFF district 3 vice president.

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