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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VIDEO: Pregnant firefighters across the nation are struggling with their departments’ reproductive health policies, and a nonprofit created in Washington is working to change that.

Maia Brown has been a firefighter in Washington for 14 years. She said when she first started working, the thought that her career had any effect on her reproductive health never came to mind.

“But as time passed, something inspired me to look into it,” she said. And when she did look into it, Brown said she found that most of the research focused on male firefighters.

“But it didn’t seem like too far of a stretch to imagine that if it’s affecting the men, it’s affecting the women too,” Brown said.

The exposures at play include toxins from fighting active fires, heat, stress, sleep disruption, chemicals in cleaning supplies, and exhaust in the apparatus bay, to name a few.

So, back in 2018, Brown started a website, meant to be a placeholder for the research she could find. “Over time it’s evolved,” she said. “There’s become such an incredible community of people that are also invested in this.”

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PHOTOS: A Martin County Sheriff’s Office helicopter crew is being credited with spotting a large fire late Sunday night and helping get firefighters to the scene before the flames spread to a nearby home.

The MCSO Air One pilot and tactical flight observer were on patrol around 10:30 p.m. when they noticed flames coming from a detached garage along Southwest Martin Highway, according to the sheriff’s office. he crew immediately alerted deputies and Martin County Fire Rescue.

Firefighters arrived to find the roughly 1,600-square-foot structure engulfed in flames, with its roof already gone. The sheriff’s office said the fire was threatening the main home on the property. Crews were able to contain the blaze before it reached the house.

The homeowners were not home at the time, according to MCSO. No one was injured.

Firefighters found a Class C motorhome and a Jeep inside the structure. The sheriff’s office said the garage and both vehicles were completely destroyed.

MCSO praised the Air One crew and responding deputies and firefighters, saying the helicopter crew’s discovery allowed emergency crews to reach the property in time to keep the flames from spreading to the home. Martin County Fire Rescue said the State Fire Marshal was notified. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

WPEC-TV CBS 12 West Palm Beach

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PHOTOS: Grand Prairie Fire Department has contained the parking lot fire that set at least 30 vehicles ablaze.

GPFD was dispatched to what was initially reported as a grass fire in the 1200 block of E Avenue J. at approximately 3:48 p.m.

Upon arrival, crews found at least 30 vehicles on fire with heavy smoke showing, upgrading the call to a full assignment.

“We’ve added some more units since just because of the high heat but no injuries. We’re just dealing with rehab and putting it out right now,” said Batallion Chief Jeremy Ashcroft.

People driving by reported hearing explosions as the flames grew.

“Cars on fire will make a lot of noises, exploding within the units themselves. Our biggest concern was the exposure to the buildings nearby, but we were able to contain it to the parking lot,” he said.

Firefighters were able to contain the fire to the vehicles and protect neighboring structures.

KXAS-TV NBC 5 Fort Worth

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VIDEOS/PHOTOS: The Hawk Fire has burned through 15,040 acres and remains 0% contained after starting on Saturday near Somersett.

Damage assessment teams are assessing structures in the affected area and homeowners will be notified directly if their property has been impacted.

Fire officials held a briefing on Sunday morning where they announced that about 42,000 people remain evacuated and/displaced by the fire. Another 90,000 people live within the zone.

Authorities have implored all of them to leave and be prepared to stay away for several days, because shifting and strengthening winds were expected to make the fire even more unpredictable. Over 1,000 first responders and 800 personnel are helping with the fire.

During the briefing, they announced that some ‘structures’ were damaged or destroyed but they did not give any specific numbers, not until an assessment is done.

The fire moved exceptionally fast Saturday night, jumping over fire trucks and making it difficult for responders to get to hotspots while residents were trying to get out, Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam said.

KTVN-TV CBS 2 Reno

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