VIDEO: Here's #MunsonCreekFire Incident Commander Zane Brown from the Alaska DNR - Division of Forestry (DOF) talking about a backfiring operation about 1 mile east of Chena Hot Springs Resort that was attempted on Monday. The Pioneer Peak Hotshot Crew was trying to burn off a patch of green fuel south of Monument Creek between the main fire and the creek. The goal was to secure the fire's edge along the creek and prevent it from jumping north across the creek and potentially hooking back toward Chena Hot Springs if the winds were right. In the video, Brown explains the strategy of a backfiring operation and how it's carried out. While Monday's backfiring operation wasn't fully successful, the Pioneer Peak Hotshots returned on Tuesday and completed the burnout and are now mopping the area up to secure that portion of the line.  

VIDEO: At least one person is dead after a twin-engine plane crashed into a home near the Monterey Regional Airport Tuesday morning. According to KION-TV, officials confirmed crews found one deceased individual still inside the plane. Fire officials say the home is located on Monterra Ranch road, near Highway 68 and about 1 mile from the airport. Officials say the crash happened just after 10:40 a.m. While officials have not yet provided details about what caused the plane to crash, radio transmissions from air traffic control right before the crash shed some light on a possible cause. Just after 10:40 a.m., the air traffic controller can be heard telling a plane about a 'low altitude warning' and instructing the pilot to climb to 5,000 feet. The pilot does not respond to this call prompting the controller to ask, "Are you having an in-flight emergency?" Moments later the same controller puts out a call that they could have a plane down.  

VIDEO: Creators of a video project to memorialize Prince George's County firefighters who died in the line of duty had struggled to get their hands on one particular photo until a social media post Monday night brought an end to their search. John Leyh was a member of the Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department who lost his life helping citizens of the county more than six decades ago. On July 12, 1956, Leyh responded to a car crash in his own car. While driving home, he himself crashed into a tree. He was 27 years old. The fatal collision resulted in a major change in safety procedures, Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department Chief Danny McCoy said. "As a result of his line-of-duty death we actually stopped our members from having the ability to respond to the scene in their personal vehicles. While it doesn't seem like a big deal... back in the day, that's how everything was handled," McCoy said.  

VIDEO: A defunct fire station could soon be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Art Deco style Engine House 2 on South Federal Avenue was completed in 1939, at a cost of $34,520, part of which was funded through a Public Works Administration grant. Upon completion until it was closed in 1973, the fire house provided round the clock service to the then rapidly expanding area south of Downtown. After it was closed, the building was transferred to the city's Public Works department and was used for storage. The roof, which fell into disrepair over the years, was replaced last year. As part of hosting the 2022 Preserve Iowa Summit next year, the city's Housing Preservation Commission is undertaking efforts to restore the building, as well as selecting an architectural historian to develop an online and digital content package featuring images, audio, video and narrative text describing the history and significance of the building.  

VIDEO: On July 17, 1981, two suspended walkways collapsed inside Kansas City's Hyatt Regency Hotel. The event became one of the worst man-made disasters in American history, and the shockwaves are still being felt four decades later. It happened at the worst possible time. The room was packed for a Friday night dance, and 114 people died, 216 were hurt and thousands more were affected. Micheal Mahoney was at the Hyatt that night. "I was a feature reporter here in Kansas City," he said. "I'd been here about a year and a half, and the beat was called the lifestyle beat." Today, Kansas Citians know him as KMBC 9 News' veteran political journalist. But things were different for Mahoney in his late 20s. "I really had a hankering to get back to hard news," he said. "But thought I'd tough it out." The 40-story Hyatt Regency had opened its doors in 1980 as the jewel of the Crown Center development.  

Black fire hydrants scattered throughout the county might go largely unnoticed by the public, but firefighters know what they mean, and many make it a point to know exactly where they are. Ink-colored fireplugs are a signal for firefighters not to hook up water hoses there because of low water volume and the possibility that infrastructure put in place by developers might collapse under the strain. Some neighborhoods that have black hydrants contain large, upscale homes. Bentwater is among them. Hood County Fire Marshal Jeff Young estimates that 65%-70% of the county does not have hydrants that provide strong enough water flows for firefighting. The black fire hydrants came about because for years, there were no regulations in the more rural parts of the county for such things as water availability for firefighting.