A gas balloon involved in an international race burst into flames Monday evening after crashing into a power line structure in Kaufman County. Kaufman County officials said the balloon came down off U.S. Highway 175, near Crandall, just after 7:15 p.m. It first crashed into high-powered transmission lines and then distribution lines before catching fire, said Kaufman County emergency manager Steve Howie.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVT CBS 11 Fort Worth

VIDEO: A South Carolina fire department wants to get your attention during National Fire Prevention Week with a funny video that carries a serious message. The Greenville Fire Department posted a music video to their social media accounts called "Stand By Your Pan." Members of the city's Station 1 lent their satirical acting, singing and musical skills to the Tammy Wynette song with the same tune that made her a country legend.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WYFF-TV NBC 4 Greenville

VIDEO: The Summer of 1871 was unusually dry, creating a heightened fire risk around the Great Lakes. While the Great Chicago Fire is the most well known in history, towns across the Midwest were impacted on the same day in separate fires including many in Michigan. Among them Manistee, Alpena, Port Huron and Holland.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WZZM-TV ABC 13 Grand Rapids

PHOTOS: Adults often don’t know of the impact they have on a child’s life. But once in a while, that payoff comes full circle — and with photographic proof. About 15 years ago, Cameron Lierly was a young boy enjoying a Fourth of July parade in the Candlestick Beach community west of town when his mother, Bridget Lierly, took a snapshot of her son sitting in the cab of a Sand Springs fire truck.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sand Springs Leader - Metered Site

VIDEO: From Canada to Olympia – a rumbling shook western Washington on Sunday night. "Suddenly somebody jerked the couch really violently," said Ranate Hartog, manager of Pacific Northwest Seismic Network at the University of Washington. "It felt like, but it was brief and it took a second, but it was like, 'Oh it’s an earthquake.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle