Dallas voters will consider a $443 million bond for public safety facilities, but some council members oppose the cost and bundling of five projects.

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A California Highway Patrol officer stopped a fire truck driving erratically on the westbound 91 Freeway, and a shirtless man was arrested on suspicion of stolen vehicle possession.

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Erie removed a decades-old tower behind the Chamber of Commerce building in Old Town. The historic fire siren will be preserved and relocated.

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PHOTOS: A house fire on Detroit’s west side early Tuesday morning spread to the house next door, but the Detroit Fire Department confirmed that no one was injured in the large fire.

The fire happened around 4:30 a.m. at a home in the 1660 block of Burlingame Street. The house, which neighbors say is a vacant home, has been ruled a total loss by fire officials.

Battalion Chief Jeffrey Urbas told us that by the time first responders got there, it was not safe to send firefighters in, because fire was coming from all the windows and the roof. The fire extended to the second floor of the home next door, but DFD got the lone occupant of that next door home out.

“It’s a big home,” Urbas said. “Old construction, heavy timber, so yea like I said, it was going through the roof, I could see it coming here myself. It was a big fire.”

The fire proceeded to spread to the ground, but DFD was able to contain the fire quickly. Demontae Moore lives across the street from the house that caught fire. “Literally I had gotten off of work at 12 (am), so it had been a long night,” Moore said.

“By the time I get home, fast forward a few hours, I haven’t even been asleep yet. It just so happened that I heard crackling at first, and I was thinking it was behind my house, actually in the alley, but it just so happened to be in the front. I look in the front, I woke up my sister, I happen to look out the window and the whole house was ablaze.”

WXYZ-TV ABC 7 Detroit

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Therapy dogs brought some much-needed smiles and comfort to fire crews battling the Paradise and Hagen Fires in Walla Walla and Umatilla Counties. Go Team Therapy Dogs TriCities and Go Team Walla Walla Therapy Dogs spent part of the week with crews working around the fires.

The visits brought comfort and a morale boost to people dealing with long shifts, hot weather and high winds. The therapy dogs included Aspen, Jazz, Norman, Roscoe, Ernie, Olivia and Luke. Their role at camp was centered on supporting crews who were working away from home.

KNDO-TV NBC 23 Yakima

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