Heavy rainfall in Willoughby Hills caused flooding at the fire department, impacting operations as crews responded to multiple emergencies while managing water removal.

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PHOTOS: A fire caused an explosion at a home on East Kedlin Avenue in Spokane on Monday afternoon. According to the Spokane Fire Department, calls came in just before 12:30 p.m. of a carport fire with explosions heard. When firefighters arrived, they found a heavy fire involving a shed, deck and a home.

SFD says everyone inside the home was able to escape and crews got the fire under control within 15 minutes. Although the home suffered significant damage, firefighters were able to keep the fire from spreading to other nearby homes.

Investigators say the fire was accidentally caused by welding sparks that ignited nearby materials. SFD says the fire smoldered undetected for around 20 minutes before igniting the deck and spreading rapidly. The explosions heard were caused by paint cans and compressed gas cans in the shed. No one was hurt. The American Red Cross was called to help the people and pets displaced by the fire.

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The Yakima Fire Department now has a new leader, Tom Huntington. He started as interim fire chief on Monday July 6, following former Chief Aaron Markham’s retirement. The city brought in Huntington as it looked for someone to take the job permanently. City Manager Vicki Baker hired him, but the city has not set a timeline for when that process will end.

“We’re entering into a pretty quick turnaround of probably a few months and then we’ll go kind of go a month at a time from there, based on needs of the city and how things are progressing,” Huntington said. Huntington comes to Yakima with three decades of fire service experience. He retired last year after spending more than 10 years as chief of the Richland Fire Department.

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PHOTOS: A massive fire broke out at a vacant church in Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington neighborhood on Tuesday evening.

The former Grandview United Presbyterian Church near Grandview Avenue and Kearsarge Street caught fire around 6 p.m. on Tuesday.

Smoke billowing high into the sky from the 3-alarm fire was seen from numerous spots in Downtown Pittsburgh.

Views of the Pittsburgh skyline showed a plume of smoke above buildings in Downtown, as Pittsburgh firefighters worked on the ground on Mount Washington to contain the fire.

The fire drew onlookers who watched as crews battled the smoke and flames. Pittsburgh Public Safety asked people to avoid the area as the fire ripped through the church.

The fire was brought under control just before 9 p.m. However, crews were expected to remain overnight to monitor hotspots.

“One of the big things is the size of this structure and the complexity of this structure,” Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire Assistant Chief Matthew Davis said.

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VIDEO: When firefighters battle a blaze, they count on an important tool to knock down the flames. “The fire doesn’t go out until you have the fire hose spraying water out of it,” Fishers firefighter Scott Carr said. But when those fire hoses get old, they are retired.

“Fire hose has typically been thrown away in the past,” Fishers firefighter Rob Demlow said. “We had it laying around the firehouse back in 2018. It was getting ready to be thrown in the trash. We decided to come up with a different idea for it,” Carr said.

“We had a flag there. We wanted to replace it with something we thought was pretty cool,” Demlow said. So, they got old fire hoses and went to work. Their creative juices started flowing. The guys found a patriotic purpose for something that would have been thrown away and created a flag out of retired fire hoses.

When people caught wind of the flag art, orders came pouring in. The guys kept creating. “The couplings, those are pretty obvious. That shows that it’s actually the fire hose,” Demlow said as he works on a flag.

Flag after flag after flag — 160 so far and counting. The flags are now in businesses, bars and fire departments across the country. All of them are made of retired fire hoses. The two firefighters have created a nonprofit called Brotherhood Designs.

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