A neighbor called 911 after seeing smoke rising out of a second-floor unit, at the Travis Green Condominiums Monday morning. The neighbor then went onto pound on the door and was joined by another neighbor who helped kick it in. Battalion Chief David Brietzke said the two were able to force entry but the heat and the smoke were too much. Fire crews were on the scene within minutes. "They saw smoke coming from the ridgeline at the apartment," said Chief Brietzke. "They pulled off a fire attack line to the second floor, advanced to the second floor into the condo, and made entry into the condo and had a pretty quick knockdown of the fire." Firefighters surveyed the damage and found a woman in her 70's laying unresponsive on her couch. Arson investigators and Austin Police Homicide were on the scene conducting interviews and collecting evidence.  

VIDEO: Austin emergency personnel had to make a precarious rescue late Monday night in a north Austin parking lot on Interstate 35. A woman drove through a fence in a hotel parking lot around 11:30 p.m. Monday, and her pickup ended up wedged between two retaining walls, tilted at a 45-degree angle, Austin Fire Department Battalion Chief Mark Bridges said. AFD crews had to stabilize the car from both above and below with chains, Bridges said, but eventually they were able to get the woman out of the pickup with minor injuries. "It presented a unique challenge for crews," Bridges said. "Gravity was working against us." Bridges said the pickup was about six feet off the ground between the retaining walls. Bridges said while it was a unique situation that required an unorthodox solution, crews were able to get to the driver relatively quickly and make sure she was stable enough to remove her from the truck and then get treatment from medics.  

A child is in critical condition after a fire at a Fort Worth apartment complex on Monday, officials say. According to the Fort Worth Fire Department, crews were dispatched to the 9000 block of Brian Way Circle shortly after 2 p.m. Officials said while crews were responding to the fire, they learned that a child may be trapped in a back room. When crews arrived, they found heavy fire and smoke coming from a two-story apartment complex, officials said. Firefighters searched the building and successfully located the child and brought them outside. Fort Worth Fire Department paramedics provided medical care to the child and requested MedStar to transport the child to a hospital. The child was taken to Cooks Children's Hospital in critical condition, officials said.  

On Monday, September 21, around 9:10 a.m., a fire alarm came in from Duck Creek Wild Game Processing in the 400 block of Willard Ave., downtown. The fire began in the south side of the 25-year-old metal building, according to Spur VFD chief Rick Paschal, where construction workers were on site at the time the fire broke out. Approximately 10 firefighters from Spur, Dickens, and McAdoo VFDs responded quickly, and the fire was under control by 10 a.m. No injuries were reported to workers or crews. Around11:00 a.m., Paschal said the fire is out; likely "the entire structure has been compromised," with the south third needing to be rebuilt. The community's hope is for a temporary solution for processing during deer season to be in place quickly.  

A Sherman man's home is a total loss after a fire Sunday morning. "Went to work, everything was fine as far as I knew, got to work and I got the call while I was at work," Michael Tribble said. Tribble said Sunday morning started out like any other day. He headed to work in Durant around 7:30 a.m. and said he got the call from his sister around 9:45 a.m. "So within that two hours it went from full house to nothing," Tribble said. Tribble's house was on Hog Skin Road in Sherman, just south of Highway 697. Now he said all he is left with is his car, the clothes he had on, and charred furniture. "So yeah, I pretty much lost everything," Tribble said. Even a day later on Monday, the fire was still smoking. "They said they would come out and check it either today or tomorrow just to keep an eye on it but since it's an old house it's going to sit there and smolder for a while," Tribble said.  

VIDEO: Fire crews are working to get a large fire under control at AAM Metal Forming/Colfor Manufacturing. The factory is on Alliance Rd. NW in Malvern. The fire broke out sometime early Tuesday morning. The Carroll County Sheriff's Office tells FOX 8 they have not had any reports of injuries. There is no word on what caused the fire. Due to concern about the smoke, Browns Local Schools has cancelled classes for the day. AAM is headquartered in Detroit and employs more than 21,000 people around the world. The district says the schools also have no water pressure.  

VIDEO: With Tropical Storm Beta bashing the Gulf coast, first responders may get a chance to put some unique training to the test. Inside a warehouse near Austin, Rick Cummins trains the next generation of water rescuers at his Fathom Academy. Since it opened two and a half years ago, Cummins has trained about 300 first responders, with more than 90% of them from the Houston area. The goal is to put them in real-life flooding scenarios that we've seen in recent years, including Hurricane Harvey and Tropical Storm Imelda. "Most of the fatalities that occur in this type of rescue environment are not the victims," Cummins says. "They are the rescuers." When KPRC 2 visited Fathom Academy, the Montgomery County Precinct 5 team was there. Watch their training in the video above. Cummins also had tips for people who might find themselves stuck in high water and in need of rescue.  

Manatee County officials are pushing for new and more efficient ways to be able to respond to emergencies. They are partnering with a private company to bring more eyes in the skies to not only solve crimes, but also save lives. "We're on the edge of something that would be very very beneficial to our community," said Jake Saur, the Public Safety Director for Manatee County. Manatee County would be the first area on the Suncoast to have this cutting-edge technology in place. The drone, created by Archer First Response Systems, would be the newest tool as part of Manatee County's Emergency Response – arriving to a scene while ambulances or first responders are on their way. "It has its own dispatch system that is constantly checking the weather and it's flight plan. It already knows all of the flight plans within that area that it can respond to," explained Saur.  

Last Monday, when I called the cardiologist Amy Kontorovich in the late morning, she apologized for sounding tired. "I've been in my lab infecting heart cells with SARS-CoV-2 since 6 a.m. this morning," she said. That might seem like an odd experiment for a virus that spreads through the air, and primarily infects the lungs and airways. But SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, can also damage the heart. That much was clear in the early months of the pandemic, when some COVID-19 patients would be hospitalized with respiratory problems and die from heart failure. "Cardiologists have been thinking about this since March," said Kontorovich, who is based at Mount Sinai. "Data have been trickling in." Autopsies have found traces of the coronavirus's genetic material in the heart, and actual viral particles within the heart's muscle cells. Experiments have found that SARS-CoV-2 can destroy lab-grown versions of those cells.  

A new device could help save lives. It's called, "The Locator." It helps first responders find the exact location of an emergency. Johnathan Harrison, founder of the product, was a paramedic in Tennessee in 2009. A new paramedic at the time, he responded to a call of a two-year-old in cardiac arrest in a mobile home park. When Harrison and his team arrived, there was no mailbox or driveway in sight. Unable to find the location, he began knocking on doors. But when he found the correct home, it was already too late. "After everything was said and done, it added four minutes to our response time to get to the child and the child didn't make it." Harrison says, four to six minutes can often be the difference between life and death. That's when he came up with the locator. Essentially, it's a porch light that blinks red white and blue when you call 9-1-1 through the locator app. It's used to help first responders easily identify the location of an emergency.