Detroit firefighter Donavan Dickerson got the call about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday that his house was burning from top to bottom. He was suddenly trying to put out a fire right where he lives. "I helped them put the hose up ... that's all I could do. I didn't have any gear," he said. It's a house with a rich Detroit history, and it's been in Dickerson's family for decades.
- PUB DATE: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: click on detroit

VIDEO: Firefighters used a drone to battle a house fire that may have been caused by lightning in south suburban Orland Park. The fire chief said flames were seen on the roof of a two-story home in the 10800-block of Scarlet Drive just before 3 a.m. Wednesday. When firefighters arrived on scene they found flames spreading across the roof and through the attic.
- PUB DATE: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago

PHOTOS: Ten people were injured after a fire engine collided with a casino shuttle bus Wednesday evening. Yonkers fire engine 313 crashed into the driver's side of an Empire City Casino bus around 6 p.m. at the intersection of Kimball and Yonkers avenues. Firefighters from station 13, just a few hundred feet from the intersection, were responding to a fire alarm at 41 Maple Place when their truck hit the bus, Yonkers Fire Commissioner John Darcy said.
- PUB DATE: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY Journal News

Kyler Olson and his mother Jaime Olson said when they saw smoke coming from a hill near their home they called 911 and rushed up the hill to see what was going on. "When we got up there, there were three people (who had gotten) out of the house," said Jaime Olson. The three people who escaped were an elderly man, elderly woman and their adult son.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 7:42:16 PM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7