| Daily News for America's Fire Service |
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| VIDEO: San Antonio firefighters worked quickly to put out a fire at a home on the city's west side Wednesday afternoon. Officials said the home was struck by lightning. |
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| VIDEO: Like every firefighter, the volunteer firefighters at Huntington VFD would be the first people to run into burning buildings when lives are at risk. “We don’t consider ourselves first. We like to take care of the people first,” said Huntington VFD Chief Mike Wolfe. |
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| A black Labrador retriever named Hank is home safe after falling 20 feet into a water well in River Oaks, officials say. The Fort Worth Fire Department assisted the River Oaks Fire Department in a “confined space rescue operation” to haul Hank from the bottom of the cistern. |
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| PHOTOS: Tampa Fire Rescue is investigating a house fire after a home in Tampa was engulfed in flames Wednesday night. Tampa Fire Rescue responded to a house fire on the 2700 block of West Bay Avenue around 11:36 p.m. |
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| PHOTO: A Center Star Fire Rescue firefighter trying to save a life became the victim of a shooting in Florence on Tuesday. Grace McCluskey came upon what she thought was a vehicle accident but in actuality was the end of a police chase with a suspected bank robber. |
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| VIDEO: NASA researchers conducted initial validation of a new airspace management system designed to enable crews to use aircraft to fight and monitor wildland fires 24 hours a day, even during low-visibility conditions. |
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| VIDEO/PHOTOS: This year marks the 112th anniversary of the Great Dayton Flood of 1913 that left 400 people dead and devastated the Miami Valley. After three days of heavy rain, most of the levees had broken and the City of Dayton was under 20 feet of water. |
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