Two Temple residents whom firefighters rescued from a burning home early Wednesday were taken to Scott & White Medical Center with what authorities described as life-threatening injuries. A passerby spotted the flames and reported the fire at around 2:45 a.m. Wednesday in the 900 block of South 21st Street. "As crews were extinguishing the fire, the search team found two occupants had been home and unable to escape the house during the fire," Temple Fire & Rescue spokesman Santos Soto said in a press release. The cause of the fire is under investigation.  

The firefighter who was killed Monday fighting the August Complex in the Mendocino National Forest was working the fire lines with her son. Diana Jones was as an emergency medical technician with the Cresson Volunteer Fire Department in Texas who had spent the last few summers doing contract firefighting with her son, Ian Shelly, Cresson Fire Chief Ron Becker told the Record Searchlight. Becker said Shelly's wife called him Monday night to tell him Jones had died. Shelly is a captain with the Cresson fire department, a community about 25 miles south of Fort Worth. "Diana was dedicated to trying to make people's lives a little bit better, making our community a little bit better," Becker said. "She was not any type of glory seeker or anything like that. She just wanted to make things better for people." Becker did not have any details on what happened to Jones.  

A Texarkana, Texas, woman was seriously burned early Tuesday in a fire at a duplex. The 39-year-old woman suffered burns on 40% to 50% of her body, said Texarkana Texas Fire Marshal Chris Black. The woman was flown to Arkansas Children's Hospital. Firefighters received the call about the fire at 5:40 a.m., at a duplex at Williams Homes on Dan Haskins Way. The injured woman was the only person inside her duplex at the time of the fire. Two people in the neighboring duplex escaped uninjured, Black said. Black said the fire does not appear to be suspicious, but the exact cause had not been determined as of Tuesday afternoon. "We are still looking through everything to see if we can come up with a cause," he said. The duplex sustained extensive damage.  

A lightning strike is being blamed for a massive fire that destroyed three tanks in a crude oil tank farm in Hood County on Tuesday. Firefighters got the call around 6:00 p.m. west of Cresson of US Highway 377. Hood County Emergency Manager Jay Webster said no one was hurt and crews are working to put out the flames. There were no evacuations.  

A contractor working at CMC Steel was critically hurt and taken to a local hospital following an industrial accident Tuesday in Guadalupe County, fire department officials said. Only one person was hurt when a fire erupted on a piece of mechanical equipment the man was operating, said Chief Tim Bogisch of the McQueeney Volunteer Fire Department. "They had an industrial accident involving one of the contractors working on site," he said. "One person was transported to the hospital with very severe injuries." Firefighters from McQueeney and an ambulance crew from Seguin Fire Department were called about 2:55 p.m. to the steel manufacturer's property, Seguin Fire Chief Dale Skinner said. The initial call was for a medical response involving machinery outside, he said. McQueeney was in charge of the incident but his personnel took one patient in critical condition to Guadalupe Regional Medical Center, Skinner said.  

Fire crews are battling a blaze in Pecos County. The fire, which is being referred to as the Smith Canyon fire, is currently burning around 7,000 acres and is at 20% containment. According to the Texas A&M Forest Service, aviation resources are assisting ground crews with suppression efforts. The fire appears to be located between I-10 and Highway 349. For more information on the fire, you can visit the Texas Wildfire Incident Response System website. Additionally, the Iraan General Hospital has announced they are accepting donations for the firefighters in the area. Donations that will be accepted include water, Gatorade, Powerade and individually wrapped snacks.  

VIDEO: The FDNY put a rarely used maneuver into action to save a woman who was hanging from a 16th-floor window during a high-rise fire in Manhattan. The fire was reported Tuesday near Lenox Avenue and West 135th Street just before 1:30 p.m. Firefighters found a woman panicking at a window on the 16th floor of the Lenox Terrace Apartments and decided to do something they rarely do -- a roof rope rescue from the 17th floor. Firefighter Brian Quinn said he stayed at the window and tried to calm her down and told her not to jump and the FDNY would come and rescue her. "This was really a heroic rescue and shows the talent and bravery of the members of the FDNY, something that is rarely done," FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. "They used their skills quickly, assessed the situation quickly, did what had to be done, bravely. Thanks to their bravery, effort and ingenuity, we have someone who was saved here on Lenox Avenue. It's a happy day for her and a happy day for all of us."  

Several firefighters battled a fire at a wrecking yard in Kent Tuesday morning. The fire was reported around 4 a.m. in the 26100 block of 78th Avenue South, according to officials with Puget Sound Fire. Firefighters arrived to find about 30-40 junked cars on fire. "(It was a) deep-seeded fire in a stack of cars," said Capt. Joe Root with Puget Sound Fire. "The cars were stacked multiple cars on top of each other and multiple rows wide." No structures were burning, so firefighters just worked to keep the fire from spreading, officials said. Firefighters used about 12,000 gallons to douse the flames and a HazMat team was called in to monitor the runoff as it mixed with leftover fluids in the vehicles, but Root said the yard already had retention ponds to collect runoff and no contamination was expected. There is no word yet what started the fire.  

Three months after one of the biggest ship fires in decades in Jacksonville, 10 firefighters injured in a related blast are suing for their injuries. The law firm Pajcic & Pajcic filed a lawsuit on behalf of 10 Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department employees on Tuesday, 90 days after an explosion that severely injured some of them. Some had to be treated at the burn unit in Gainesville, and three first responders remain off the job due to their injuries. A 15-floor cargo ship caught fire on June 4 in the St. Johns River while at Blount Island. The cause is still under investigation, but the plaintiffs' attorney, Curry Pajcic, said the ship had just been loaded with 2,400 junked cars that were to be transported to western Africa. At 6:45 p.m. June 4, while fighting the fire from the inside, at least 10 firefighters were in the stairwell when there was an explosion on the eighth deck.  

Members of the Harmonville Fire Company are excited to announce the kickoff of their campaign to recruit volunteers featuring a new website JoinHarmonvilleFire.org that highlights the company's strengths and vision and will receive queries from potential volunteers. With the key values of honor, family and community, Harmonville Fire Company hopes to find like-minded people to volunteer in various roles at the historic company, which began in 1924. The busy fire company offers opportunities to fight fires in a variety of structures from homes to businesses to the Plymouth Meeting Mall. With its proximity to I-476 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike, Harmonville first responders are also called to save lives along the highways. The ideas for the new campaign, including the slogan "Honor. Family. Community," were developed through a visioning session with members of the Harmonville Fire Company. All felt strongly that these principles distinguished the volunteer experience with their station.  

More deaths associated with Hurricane Laura were caused by the improper use of portable generators than the storm itself. And officials warn that the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning persists, as thousands of households in Louisiana remain without power. Eight of the 15 hurricane-related deaths confirmed by the Louisiana Department of Health are attributed to carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators, which can provide life-saving power in emergency situations but also pose a deadly threat if used incorrectly. The unidentified victims of carbon monoxide poisoning range in age from 24 to 84 years old, and outnumber the deaths caused by drowning, fallen trees and storm cleanup. Officials in Lake Charles said at a press briefing on Friday that five people in one house succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning after fumes from their generator — which was running in an attached garage — entered through a door that was either partially or fully open.