Atlantic City honored its firefighting history with the unveiling of a mural next to a historic fire station in the midst of a preservation project.

“The Door That Opened” features the late Fire Chief and Drill Commander Marvin E. Beatty Jr., for whom Fire Station 2 at Indiana and Baltic avenues is named.

Created by artist Chanelle René, it celebrates belonging, community and bravery.

The mural includes a young girl looking up at Beatty in admiration. She is modeled after Quinn, the daughter of assisting artist John Morris.

It highlights the importance of Black representation in the Atlantic City Fire Department and the lasting influence of role models on future generations.

Wednesday’s event celebrated the preservation of a century-old public safety landmark and the power of public art to honor the people and history that shape Atlantic City’s neighborhoods.

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VIDEOS: A sight of smoke rising from the East Bay hills Tuesday alarmed some residents as it came on the anniversary of the deadly 1991 Oakland firestorm.

Emergency calls came in around 11:45 a.m. reporting a fire burning near homes in the 1000 block of Panoramic Way along the Oakland-Berkeley border, triggering a large emergency response.

Crews from the Oakland Fire Department, Berkeley Fire Department and Cal Fire responded. Fire officials said the blaze spread slowly, allowing firefighters to quickly establish defensive lines.

Two homes were threatened by the flames. One sustained partial fire damage before firefighters stopped the fire’s advance.

No injuries were reported. However, fire officials said the incident could have become a major incident if weather conditions had been worse. White smoke from the fire was visible from as far away as San Francisco.

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VIDEO/PHOTO: An old fire truck parked at Thendara Automotive is drawing attention for its unique place in North Country history.

The truck, known as the Blitz Buggy, changed the way fire trucks were built when it was introduced.

Kate Lewis, director of the Town of Webb Historical Association, said, “Four Wheel Drive, there’s something to do with the pump; it turns right on, you don’t have to wait to prime anything else.”

The Blitz Buggy’s story began in the early 1940s when local mechanic W. Lewis Armstrong started Army’s Fire Service.

Armstrong later worked with other local businessmen to build the Blitz Buggy.

“He went into business with the Burdicks, and they asked the Brussels to manufacture the trucks. Each one is different because they were built to the specification of the company,” Lewis said.

Only 50 Blitz Buggy trucks were made in Thendara, including Truck 4, which was built in 1959 and later sold to a collector.

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A late-night apartment fire in Plano sent one man to the hospital. Police believe the fire was intentionally set and have a person of interest in custody.

The fire started around midnight at the Villas at Chase Oaks apartments, located off Legacy Drive just west of Central Expressway.

First responders rescued a man from a second-story balcony after residents heard him yelling for help. Paramedics took the man to the hospital with minor injuries, and no one else was hurt.

A roof collapsed onto firefighters during the incident, but none of them were injured, officials said. Officials say 10 units inside the building are uninhabitable because of the damage.

A fire department spokesperson said officials believe the fire was arson. Police have one person in custody as they investigate.

Apartment management and the Red Cross are helping displaced residents find temporary housing. Fire and police officials have not released details on why they believe the fire was deliberately set or how it started.

Officials also have not confirmed exactly how many people the fire displaced.

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A massive fire engulfed what may be a converted mobile home at a West Little River neighborhood early Tuesday.

The flames broke out at around 3:20 a.m. in the area of Northwest 13th Avenue and Northwest 79th Street.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said there are currently no reports of injuries. Officials also said the fire was “possibly caused by a blown transformer in area.”

Aerial images show extensive damage and charred vehicle parts in what appears to be a converted tractor-trailer.

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PHOTOS: Members of the FDNY gathered on Saturday for the 60th anniversary of a fire in Manhattan that claimed the lives of 12 firefighters.

Chief of Department John Esposito, numerous firefighters and family members gathered at the southeast corner of E. 23rd St. and Broadway in Flatiron to lay a wreath at the site of the fire in remembrance of the fallen heroes.

“Twelve members, representing nearly every rank from deputy chief to probationary firefighter, made the Supreme Sacrifice that day,” the FDNY said Saturday on X. “It was the greatest loss of life in FDNY history before the September 11th attacks.”

The five-alarm blaze broke out on Oct 17, 1966, across the street from Madison Square Park and the Flatiron building.

The fire erupted in a hazardous stew of paints and chemicals stored by an art dealer in the basement at 7 E. 22nd St., a brownstone building.

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The Essex Junction Fire Department put out a raging vehicle fire outside a home early Monday.

The department said crews were alerted that two vehicles were on fire outside a home on West Street just before 6 a.m.

Firefighters were able to extinguish the flames within three minutes and prevented the fire from spreading to the nearby garage and other vehicles.

A body camera video from the scene that was provided by the department shows the fire engulfing both vehicles as crews work to knock down the flames.

The homeowners were not injured in the fire. They told officials that they do not know when the fire started, but were awakened by a noise in their home.

Department officials said they do not know the cause of the fire due to the extent of the damage to the vehicles.

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A house fire broke out early Sunday morning in Houston, spreading damage to at least two neighboring homes, according to the Houston Fire Department.

Houston Fire Department (HFD) crews responded to the 2800 block of Terry Street at approximately 5:30 a.m. on Oct. 18, 2026. Firefighters appeared to have the flames mostly under control by 6 a.m., roughly 20 minutes after crews arrived on scene.

HFD confirmed the home was vacant at the time of the fire, and no injuries were reported. Both homes neighboring the original structure also sustained damage from the blaze. Crews remained on scene until approximately 8:15 a.m. Investigators are still working to determine the cause of the fire.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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VIDEO: Omaha firefighter Emmanuel Malesh is using his personal journey from South Sudan to juvenile detention to inspire youth at the Douglas County Youth Center.

Malesh said he wants to share his story to show young people that their beginnings do not define their future. “Share my story, my journey, and letting them know that, you know, where they started does not ultimately, you know, determine who they will be in the future,” Malesh said.

Malesh and his family fled South Sudan in 2004, facing significant challenges upon arriving in America. “We didn’t speak the language. We struggled to adjust to the culture and try to adapt. So we had a lot of obstacles,” he said. Even after adapting, Malesh said he felt lost and struggled to find a sense of belonging. “I was kind of lost. I was trying to find the sense of belonging,” he said.

This led him down a difficult path. “I was hanging out with the wrong group of friends and, you know, getting in trouble that, you know, I was being suspended from school in diversion programs and eventually ended up, you know, juvenile detention centers,” Malesh said.

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A truck fire that ended in an explosion Friday afternoon rattled businesses along Billings’ West End, sending employees to evacuate customers as flames engulfed an asphalt-mixing trailer near 2950 King Avenue West.

The explosion damaged the doors at Bullfrog Spas, where sales representative Taylor Bromgard watched the fire unfold and recorded video of the incident. No injuries were reported.

“It was pretty slow of a day to start and then ramped up from zero to a hundred pretty quick,” he said.

Bromgard said he looked up from his desk and noticed what he initially thought was mist outside.

“I realized underneath that what I thought was mist was actually flames,” Bromgard said.

He grabbed his phone to record the fire and considered getting a hose to try to extinguish it, but the flames spread too quickly.

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VIDEO/PHOTOS: Firefighters in West Covina battled a massive residential structure fire that engulfed the rear of a home Thursday night.

The fire was reported at around 10:30 p.m. at 3012 Cameron Avenue, near Virginia Lane, KTLA Sky5 reporter Gil Leyvas reported.

Crews with the West Covina Fire Department arrived quickly, but the rear of the home was fully engulfed in flames, while aerial footage of the blaze captured a neighbor using a water hose to try and protect nearby trees from igniting and possibly sparking a fire on the adjacent property.

Details remain limited and it’s unclear how the fire started, nor is it clear if anyone has been injured as a result of the blaze.

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In more than 40 years as a volunteer firefighter with the North Patchogue Fire Department on Long Island, Bob Meyer has been in the middle of a lot of life and death situations.

A couple of years ago, he was facing his own. Meyer, also a retired corrections officer, needed a heart transplant after a procedure to repair an aortic aneurysm at a local hospital was unsuccessful, and his heart was damaged. “Basically, they told me my heart wasn’t going to get any better,” he said.

He got on the heart transplant list locally in New York, knowing that he would likely have to become very sick before he would qualify for a donor heart, if a matching one could be found.

He had no way of knowing at the time that a chance encounter would point him to the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, and he would receive a new heart nearly 1,000 miles away.

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PHOTOS: A lithium-ion battery from a hoverboard scooter began burning overnight and sparked an explosion that triggered a massive industrial scrapyard fire off U.S. Highway 90 in Jefferson County, destroying about $750,000 worth of high-value scrap metal, according to information Jefferson County Emergency Services District 3 Fire Chief Phillip Kibodeaux provided to KFDM News.

The fire was reported at about 5 a.m. at Scrapworks Industrial LLC, 12070 Highway 90 West, just past ExxonMobil and the Beaumont Municipal Airport.

Chief Kibodeaux says the company had separated a lithium-ion battery from a hoverboard scooter, and the battery began burning at about 2:30 a.m.

The batteries create intense heat, and the chief says the battery fire caused something to blow up and started a fire in another scrap pile.

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A massive fire at a metal recycling facility in Fontana sent thick plumes of smoke into the air Wednesday morning as powerful Santa Ana winds pushed flames toward neighboring businesses and prompted several road closures.

The second-alarm fire broke out at a scrap yard at 14187 Slover Ave. in South Fontana, according to the San Bernardino County Fire Department.

Fire officials said the flames engulfed a large pile of metal debris, with winds reaching 25 mph driving the fire south and threatening adjacent commercial properties.

Video shared by the department showed towering flames tearing through piles of scrap metal as thick clouds of smoke filled the sky. As firefighters worked to contain the blaze, the Fontana Police Department announced several traffic restrictions to allow emergency crews to safely access the area.

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VIDEO: A drone from the Logan-Rogersville Fire Department gave neighboring firefighters a new view of the front lines as Highlandville firefighters and crews from other departments battled a 200-acre fire in Stone County Monday afternoon.

The fire burned more than 200 acres and marked the department’s second large-acreage fire in three days. The fire spread along Curbow Road in Stone County, and flames crossed a river as wind picked up to 30 mph, creating an additional fire for crews to battle.

Highlandville Fire Chief Stephens said he is uncertain what caused the fire. Using Logan-Rogersville’s drone, crews identified critical hotspots and tracked where flames crossed the river.

The aerial view gave Highlandville firefighters a better understanding of how the fire was spreading. It was the first time Stephens and his crew had seen a fire response supported by the Logan-Rogersville department’s drone.

“I was pretty impressed by it. I had never used one of them. I’d never been around one of them. Never been around one, never seen one,” Stephens said.

Logan-Rogersville Assistant Fire Chief Grant Peters said Captain Wescoat piloted the drone and crews were able to identify crucial areas.

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Body camera video captured the desperate effort to rescue a 4-year-old boy trapped inside a burning home in Mississippi.

Sister station WAPT News has obtained exclusive video from the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office showing flames engulfing the home as firefighters spray water on the fire and neighbors and deputies search through smoldering debris for the child.

After several minutes of digging through the wreckage with his bare hands, neighbor Kennard Hodge pulls the boy from the debris. “I got him! I got him!” someone shouts in the body camera footage. Neighbors and first responders can be heard clapping and cheering as they urge the child to keep going.

Edwards Police Chief Terrence Crump described the rescue as extraordinary. “This was nothing short of a miracle,” Crump said. Six children were inside the home on Utica Street when the fire started around 10 p.m. Wednesday.

Neighbors rushed toward the burning home, breaking windows and risking their own safety to get the children out. Five children made it outside, but the 4-year-old remained missing. The newly obtained body camera video captures the moment Hodge pulled the youngest child from the debris and the frantic efforts that followed to save his life.

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PHOTOS: Two firefighters were injured Wednesday morning while battling a massive fire at a vacant apartment complex on the North Side.

The fire started just after 5:30 a.m. at the Sante Fe Apartments off Blanco Road near Gilbert Lane, prompting a three-alarm response involving approximately 150 firefighters and additional support crews.

San Antonio Fire Department spokesperson Joe Arrington said firefighters arrived to find heavy flames inside the boarded-up apartment complex and had to force their way into the building.

While searching the building, one firefighter fell through a section of the floor that had been weakened by the flames.

“They were sounding the floor, making sure it was solid. And as they were sounding, it is when it collapsed underneath them,” Arrington said. “Fortunately, the whole crew didn’t go in. It was just one firefighter, and they were able to get a ladder to get him out pretty quickly.”

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There are over 1,500 photos by Alvah C. Card in the Athenaeum collection, documenting 20th-century Portsmouth and the surrounding area.

A lifelong resident of the city, Card (1913-1988) lived at 466 Marcy St. in the South End. He spent 40 years in public service with the city of Portsmouth, including 30 years with the Water Department and 25 years as a volunteer firefighter with Kearsarge Engine Co. No. 3.

In honor of Fire Prevention Month, the Athenaeum is sharing photos Card took of the Portsmouth Fire Department in action.

On March 15, 1943, Card captured the aftermath of a fire on Congress Street. According to the Portsmouth Herald, the seven-and-a-half-hour blaze “wiped out five stores” in the one-story block on lower Congress Street next to the two-story Montgomery Ward store (now Paul Mitchell’s cosmetology and beauty school).

The stores were Hubbards, Inc., Shaines Boot Shop, Katherine C. Connor hat shop, Louis’ Men’s shop and the Portsmouth Hardware and Plumbing Supply Company.

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VIDEO: A driver is recovering after their van crashed and got stuck between a wall and a building in Acworth, according to the Cobb County Fire Department.

Fire crews were called to the scene on Tuesday night. Once on scene, firefighters observed the van, which officials said, was suspended between the building and a wall.

The department’s Technical Rescue Team had the van propped up to keep it supported and stable as they worked to get the driver–who suffered minor injuries–out of the vehicle, according to fire officials.

Officials have not released any details about how the driver’s vehicle got into this situation.

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Fire crews have been battling a massive, stubborn fire for hours overnight at a commercial building in Somerville, Massachusetts, that sent two firefighters to the hospital and damaged about a half a block of businesses.

Officials say the fire broke out around 10 p.m. Monday in the 100 block of Broadway.

The most damage happened to a barber shop, Brazilian restaurant Rei Da Picanha and a Santander Bank branch. The roof and part of the first floor collapsed, making it even more difficult to put out the fire.

The fire chief says they think the flames started in the basement, and it was too smokey and dangerous to fight in the building, so crews had to pour water from the outside.

“It’s an old building and, old wood. And it got, there’s layers, it had an old tin ceiling, it’s probably been renovated several times over the years. So you have a lot of void spaces to deal with and that just creates a lot of smoke. And then when the fire got up and the roof gets involved, you have rubber roofing material, roofing tar, it produces very acrid smoke,” said Somerville Chief Charles Breen.

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