Two firefighters and a third person were injured in a fire in the South Shore neighborhood Monday evening. The fire broke out on the second floor of a three-story, multi-unit apartment building in the 1400 block of East 69th Place, at the intersection with Dante Avenue. Assistant Deputy Fire Commissioner Donald Walker said a still-and-box alarm was called for additional equipment and manpower due to the number of calls the fire department received. A staircase collapsed while firefighters were battling the blaze—resulting in the fire department losing some communication with a few of its members. A mayday was called for missing firefighters, but everyone was ultimately accounted for, Walker said. A woman was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center from the scene in good condition, while two firefighters were also transported to the same hospital with minor injuries.  

A kitchen fire at an East Bluff home caused $5,000 in damage and resulted in the family having to stay with others. According to the Peoria Fire Department, crews were called at about 7:40 p.m. Sunday on a report of a oven fire at the house which was located in the 1100 block of East Republic Street. That's a few blocks from North Prospect Road. When they arrived, they found the fire in the kitchen behind the stove. The fire was quickly put out. No one was injured and all residents were out of the house when the firefighters arrived. Fans were used to ventilate the house of smoke. The cause of the fire was deemed to be electrical in nature.  

Multiple firefighters were hurt after a roof collapsed while they were battling a three-alarm house fire at a Mesa home on Monday afternoon. Around 1 p.m., Mesa firefighters were called to a barbeque fire that had spread to the attic of a home on Downing Circle, just north of University Drive and Greenfield Road. Mesa Fire says 10 firefighters were in the master bedroom when the roof collapsed and escaped through a window. The 911 caller reportedly had evacuated with their dog as the fire quickly spread. Firefighters then went defensive and attacked the blaze. Two firefighters had minor burn injuries. A third firefighter was taken to the hospital with a back injury. No other injuries were reported.  

VIDEO: A driver is wanted after they were seen on camera damaging a fire station early Sunday morning, according to Portland Fire & Rescue. At about 1:46 a.m., on Aug. 18, a driver in a white 1997-2003 Ford F150 pickup truck vandalized Fire Station 25, located at 5211 Southeast Mall Street, which serves people in the Mt. Scott-Arleta and Woodstock neighborhoods. A surveillance camera across the street caught the suspect drive over the curb and onto the lawn while honking the horn for an extended period. The suspect backed into the street, then returned to the driveway of the station, striking the garage door, damaging it. The suspect then drove over the lawn again, hitting the flagpole. PF&R says emergency repairs were made to make the garage door fully operational again.  

VIDEO: Jefferson County 911 is using new artificial intelligence technology to provide faster and more efficient emergency responses throughout Jefferson and Clear Creek counties. At the emergency operations center, every call starts the same way. "This is Jeffcom 911. Can you hear me?" said call taker Juanita Williams. But after that, Williams has no idea what will come next. "We're here to be the calm voice in the storm of people's lives," said Williams. In the past, she took notes throughout the call, but now, new AI is helping her do that. "This is a first in Colorado, first in the state for rolling out our advanced features here," said Chris Hill, COO of Carbyne. Carbyne is the new AI technology created to assist call takers. Hill said every conversation is written out, capturing details quicker than before. The platform can also automatically detect different languages, so there's less waiting for interpreters.  

VIDEO: In two places on the same night, the storm that deluged the Northeast this weekend dumped rain at or near rates that should be expected only once in a thousand years. The storm killed at least three people and caused widespread flooding. It dropped about 10 inches of rain over 12 hours on Sunday in parts of Connecticut including Oxford and Southbury. About 35 miles away, about 6.7 inches of rain fell in three hours on Sunday night in Stony Brook, New York. Both are measures that would have roughly a 0.1% chance of happening in a year, according to federal rainfall probability data. "There were two areas that got sort of equally extreme rainfall, and they didn't happen at the same time," said Nick Bassill, director of the state weather risk communication center at the University of Albany in New York.