PHOTO: Anchorage firefighters responded to a fire in a building of a condominium complex close to Taku Lake on Friday evening near South Anchorage. No injuries have been reported. Anchorage Fire Department Assistant Chief Alex Boyd said firefighters responded to a building in the Foxwood Condominium complex at 7:40 p.m. Friday. The complex is on Foxridge Way, off of C Street. According to Boyd and a member of the department on the scene, at least two units on the second and third floors of one of the buildings were "heavily involved." Boyd said around 9:30 p.m. that no injuries had been reported. He said firefighters "encountered a whole lot" of heavy fire and smoke upon their initial response, and crews worked to extinguish it. Boyd said the fire was brought under control by 9:10 p.m.  

VIDEO: Emergency crews from 27 different agencies responded to a large fire at the Red Jacket Mountain View Resort Saturday afternoon. Photos and videos shared by people in the area showed smoke and flames coming out of rooms on the second and third floors. The Chief of the North Conway Fire Department says there were four injuries, two people at the resort and two firefighters. None of the injuries are considered to be serious. The Chief also shared with WMTW News 8 that 75 rooms were destroyed. Hotel staff organized buses to bring residents to other hotels in the area, as the crews worked and began to assess the damage. The center section housing the lobby area has water damage, but the left third of the building is undamaged.  

Everywhere you go just south of the Andover Road and US Highway 400 intersection in Andover you see the same thing. Houses destroyed and debris everywhere. That is what is left in wake of a EF-3 tornado that hit the southeastern part of the city Friday night, leaving a swath of destruction. During a news conference Saturday at 4:30, just under 24 hours since the twister first touched down, first responders had several updates on the status of the city. Andover Fire Chief Chad Russell putting it plainly, "We do have significant property damage in some of the neighborhoods throughout the community." One of several points the first responders hit on was a warning to residents returning to their homes. Chief Russell says many of them might not be stable right now.  

VIDEO: Two years ago, the Decatur Fire Department made a name for itself when it became the first and only fire department in the country to hold an all-female command. Today, they continue to hold that title, and last weekend the department celebrated a personal stride on Instagram when every one of their responding fire units had a woman as their fire apparatus operator. A fire apparatus operator is one of the most vital positions when out in the field. They operate and drive the fire truck and are in charge of all of the equipment at the scene of an incident. This includes carrying and unloading the ladder, providing water through hydrants and hose lines, supervising personnel and more. Fire Inspector Lashawna Bussey knows this job well as she was one of the apparatus operators on call during this milestone.  

VIDEO: Pinnacle Mountain State Park has more than 22 miles of trails and more than 14 miles of mountain bike trail-- along with those trails come some emergencies. "Here at Pinnacle Mountain State Park, we do handle some of the highest numbers of emergency services calls of any state park," Cale Davenport, Assistant Superintendent for Pinnacle Mountain State Park said. Those calls could range from a number of things spanning from heat exhaustion to something more extreme like what happened Tuesday night. "A young man was attempting to ride a mountain bike in an area undesignated. It was not one of our mountain bike trails," said Davenport. That 17-year-old, according to Davenport, entered through the Rocky Valley Trail. After leaving the hiking trail not intended for mountain bikes, the teen crashed and fell, plunging 30 feet onto bare rock.  

In the early 1980s, Indianapolis firefighter Tom Hanify was part of a training exercise using foam spray to put out a controlled house fire. After Hanify and the crew contained the blaze, they stuck around just to play in the foam. He said that at the time, the firefighters were just having fun. Now, looking back, there was nothing funny about it. That's because Hanify now realizes that foam contained per-and-polyfluoroalkyl, "forever" chemicals that don't break down and build up in the human body. Recent research has linked it to at least eight different kinds of cancer. "We were literally playing with this stuff and had no clue what we were doing," said Hanify, who today serves as president of the Professional Fire Fighters Union of Indiana. It was the same story for nearly every Indiana fire department that used what is known as aqueous film-forming foam over the next four decades.