Two Vidor police officers teamed up for a dramatic rescue, pulling two young boys out of a home only seconds before flames engulfed their room. The call came in shortly before 2:00 a.m. Tuesday, September 10. A house fire in the 900 block of Pin Oak Street with children possibly trapped inside. Officer Ashton Moss and Officer Michael Stephenson were quick to act without hesitation. "I just saw a big ball of fire," Moss told KFDM. "So, I just tried to run over to the house." "That's like your nightmare, that there's a child involved," Stephenson said. The two children, seven and nine-year-old boys, with no way out. They were blocked in a bedroom by a window a/c unit, with flames beginning to spread throughout the home. Stephenson used his bare hands to pull and violently shake the unit to remove it.  

VIDEO/PHOTOS: A firefighter was hospitalized after battling a massive house fire on the North Side. The fire started just after 11 p.m. Thursday at a home off Whisper Path Street near Lockhill Selma Road. The firefighter suffered minor injuries. Nobody was home at the time of the fire. Officials say the house is a total loss. Investigators are looking into what caused the fire.  

Two people were taken to the hospital after a reported gas leak at The University of Texas at Austin. The Austin Fire Department posted on social media that crews were responding to a Hazmat Task Force around 11:30 a.m. on West 20th Street and University Avenue intersection. According to AFD, construction workers hit a 4 inch gas line while doing work in the area. Crews said a number of roads were shutdown including Whitis Avenue and West 20th Street along with University Avenue and West Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard. The University of Texas Police Department posted on social media around 12:05 p.m. saying the gas had since been shut off but advising students to avoid the area. Austin-Travis County Medics also responded to the scene and transported two people to the hospital.  

Flames and thick smoke shot from a large warehouse in Northeast Philadelphia Friday morning as firefighters battled the large blaze that could be seen and smelled for miles around and forced local residents to stay indoors. The fire along Adams Avenue, near East Wingohocking Street in the Frankford neighborhood, broke out around 5:30 a.m. on Sept. 13, 2024, and quickly spread to two alarms, Philadelphia Fire Department Assistant Deputy Commissioner Derek Bowmer said. The building is a commercial building with an auto shop in the rear that is near the Frankford Creek, Bowmer said. There is another commercial building in back. Both buildings were unoccupied at the time of the fire. "It quickly escalated to three alarms," Bowmer said as firefighters attacked the flames from outside. By 6:30 a.m. a fourth alarm was struck.  

PHOTOS: More than 60 years after Hicksville Volunteer Fire Department's fire engine was decommissioned, the vintage vehicle has finally returned home. The engine's return began last month when former Hicksville Fire Chief Patrick McGeough alerted company historian and former Chief Karl Schweitzer of a posting on the antique apparatus – long thought to be lost to the salvage yard. "It was sold in '61 or '62 and that was the last we saw of it," said Schweitzer. "Minus the pictures we have of it on our wall. Pat saw [the listing] and asked me if I thought it was one of our old trucks," Schweitzer continued. "[Pat] said that someone was getting rid of it, so we started reaching out to the owner to verify it was one of ours. And it was." Within just a few days, the officers of Company 5 received a Facebook message from Andrew Rittner Jr. in Ashford, Conn.  

VIDEO: About eight weeks after a fire shut down Interstate 15 between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, U.S. Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) is proposing new rules on the transportation of lithium-ion batteries. The 44-hour closure of I-15 about 25 miles east of Barstow was a major problem for weekend travelers on their way to Las Vegas. A flatbed truck carrying six industrial-grade batteries overturned on the shoulder of northbound I-15, stopping traffic for miles in 110-degree heat. Now Titus has introduced the "Thermal Runaway Reduction Act," which focuses on ways to reduce the potential for thermal runaway — when the temperature of a battery increases uncontrollably, often leading to a fire. Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn G. Goodman cited the crash and freeway closure as more evidence that California should take steps to widen I-15.  

VIDEO: Multiple fire departments and districts came together to train for palm tree rescues at Reid Park in Tucson. Firefighters use a lot of gear including shoes with spikes to rescue people stuck in palm trees. But now they're working on a faster, safer way, where those spikes are no longer necessary. "When someone's stuck in a tree, you know, time is life," said Roger Thompson, a firefighter with the Tucson Fire Department. Technical rescue technicians from across southern Arizona have been meeting for years, learning and practicing how to rescue people who've gotten stuck in palm trees. Thompson told 13 News they see one to two rescues each year. And he's come up with a new way to execute their rescues. "Implements a lot of the same techniques, but also somewhat streamlined," Thompson said.