All restrictions on burning on the Kenai Peninsula have been lifted. The wet weather over the weekend brought the wildfire risk substantially down on the peninsula, said Howie Kent, fire management officer for the Alaska Division of Forestry's Kenai-Kodiak area station in Soldotna. "It's exactly what we needed," he said. "That's why we're confident now to lift the burn suspension and allow folks to burn their debris piles again." Kent said the Kenai Peninsula got two inches of rain in some places this weekend . That's in contrast to the historically dry weather that was worrying fire managers statewide earlier this summer. "This year we saw historic drying," he said. "For literally two-and-a-half months, we may have gotten a quarter-inch of rain during that span of time."  

A building in Columbus, Ohio, partially collapsed Monday afternoon while a firefighter was inside during an inspection. No injuries were reported in the collapse, including to the firefighter. A business that operated on the ground floor, at 1032 East Long Street, was closed Monday. The owner of the business lived in a different part of the building, but was not inside when it happened, fire officials said. Photos and video showed the collapse started along the back wall before a corner of the structure gave way. Columbus fire and police had multiple units on the scene during and after the collapse. Chief Jeffrey Geitter of the Columbus Division of Fire said a building inspector was checking another building nearby when he noticed a section of the back wall had given way and called firefighters.  

PHOTOS: It helps when batters in the Home Run Derby catch fire during their rounds. MLB nearly took that too literally. As the derby participants were announced at Dodger Stadium, the pyrotechnic jets were set off all around, with one burst shooting high into the sky behind the stage, appearing to nearly set Ronald Acuña Jr. on fire. MLB certainly pulled out all the stops for the introduction of each of the players. There was a DJ, dramatic introductions for each player and smoke machines as each came out of their entrances. Once all the players were on stage, the presentation was taken to the next level. There were fire jets on the backdrop of the stage as they waited for one another, and for group shots. Of course, with nearly setting one of the contestants on fire, MLB found itself getting roasted online.  

An SUV rolled over onto a firefighter who was trying to rescue the driver and his son after a crash in New York City. The initial collision happened Sunday afternoon on 11th Avenue at West 42nd Street in Manhattan. The two-vehicle crash involved a BMW SUV and a Volvo sedan. Randi and Matthew Rahn said they were stopped at a red light in their Volvo when the SUV just landed on top of their vehicle. "I thought it was an explosion," Randi said. "It was a terrible, terrible loud crash." Cameras captured the BMW teetering on the Volvo. Good Samaritan Ben Arias jumped into action, trying to help the couple, as well as the occupants of the BMW, identified as a father and son, get out. "For the BMW side, I told them 'whatever you do, don't get out through the passenger side," Arias said. Randi and Matthew managed to make it out of their Volvo and somehow walked away without a scratch  

VIDEO: A traveling EMS memorial stopped Monday in the Ohio Valley on its trek across the country. "We realized how impactful that is to the honorees families when they get to see all of this," said Jana Williams, president of the National EMS Memorial Service. The memorial made its way to Follansbee on Monday, one stop on its trip that began in Texas a few days ago and will end in Arlington, Va. at week's end. "Next weekend, we're going to pay homage to 72 EMS providers that lost their lives in the line of duty over the last year," Williams said. EMS personnel from Ohio, West Virginia, and even a medical helicopter crew from Pittsburgh, visited the memorial on Monday. The National EMS Memorial Service was formed in 1991 and centers around the Tree of Life Memorial. Each year, leaves are added, each for someone who died in the line of duty. The leaves include a name, agency, state and last call date, something very important to many.