The Sedro-Woolley Fire Department will remount the box of a totaled ambulance onto a new chassis, expediting service and saving costs, as another ambulance is under repair.

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Sanford hosted a National Night Out event at its new fire station, promoting community ties and public safety. City officials highlighted budget allocations for safety services and staffing needs.

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Dallas Fire Rescue said dozens of people were displaced at Campbridge Park Condominiums at 11490 Audelia Road in Northeast Dallas.

DFR said they were called out around 1:00 Friday morning for a structure fire at the condos. They said they were met with fire coming from the roof of the three-story building.

“Attack teams moved in to fight the fire offensively, but since the fire was well into its advanced stages, a second-alarm response was quickly dispatched,” DFR said in a statement.

They said a third-alarm was called for more help. About 60 to 60 firefighters were on scene at one point to battle the blaze.

“When I came outside of my condo, I didn’t see anything. I had to drop to my knees and crawl down three flights of stairs. When I looked up, I could look and see that my condo was gone,” one resident told NBC 5. At least 24 condos were destroyed, and more than 40 people have been displaced. DFR said no injuries were reported.

KXAS-TV NBC 5 Fort Worth

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VIDEO: Fountain Hills firefighters are busy this summer. They are not putting out house fires, but rather going on calls for snakes. Fountain Hills fire crews went on about 1,100 snake calls last fiscal year.

That breaks down to about three calls a day. A single shift went on six calls before noon. Those calls come in several times a day, especially in the summer, and it is the fire department’s job to remove and relocate the creatures.

Many people may think Fountain Hills firefighters go on a lot of fire calls, but medical calls actually top the list, and right below medical emergencies are calls for snakes, and it becomes quickly apparent how fast those calls can come in.

Cameras were rolling for 30 seconds when a snake call came in. By 10:00 a.m., it was already the fourth call of the day. The snake was a smaller one, sitting in a corner outside a home.

This was not the first rodeo for the homeowner. “Rather not kill the snakes, but I don’t want to see him released. You know right across the wash cause they come back,” resident David Cook said.

Firefighter Rocky Craig snatched the snake with a snake grabber, threw it into a bucket, and then released it into the wild away from any homes. It is a dangerous job, but somebody has to do it.

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VIDEO: Astronauts want to light it up on the moon — for science. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as part of its Artemis program, is planning to conduct combustion experiments on the lunar surface to better understand how fire operates outside of Earth.

Think of a lit match. On Earth, the flame has a distinct, upward teardrop shape. This happens due to gravity, with hotter air rising, creating the yellow trail as it burns up. In space, a flame instead takes on the shape of a blue sphere, representing a slower, cooler burn, referred to as a “cool flame.”

NASA’s prior combustion experiments on the International Space Station showed that fire behaves differently in space. The microgravity on the ISS is about 90% of Earth’s gravity (known mathematically as 1g). The gravity on the moon is about 16.667% of 1g, meaning the moon’s gravity is one-sixth that of Earth’s gravity.

With such low but stable gravity, we can expect flames on the moon not to behave as they would on Earth. The burn rate in lunar gravity is sometimes referred to as a “Goldilocks zone” for studying combustion, due to flames lasting longer than they usually do.

Another difference between fire on Earth and in space is what’s left behind. With a normal lit flame, carbon dioxide and water are produced, but once the visible, yellow flame is gone, the cool, blue flame produces carbon monoxide and formaldehyde.

The lunar experiment is called Flammability of Materials on the Moon, or FM2. It would be the “first-ever combustion experiment to be performed on another planetary body” and marks “a critical step in determining material flammability and safety for future missions,” according to NASA.

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