VIDEO: The Anchorage Fire Department has a new tool for detecting wildfires on the Anchorage Hillside that can provide an early alert to first responders. The system called FIRE-SPY consists of a small box that contains a sensor which is mounted on a utility pole. There are currently 25 monitors in place on the hillside, with plans to install five more by the end of July. Anchorage Fire Chief Doug Schrage said the sensors, which monitor an area about a half-acre in size, act similarly to a home smoke detector but are much more sophisticated. "They're testing for temperature changes, humidity changes, looking for smoke in the air, and then sending an automatic alert not only to Chugach Electric but to Anchorage Fire Dispatch," Schrage said.  

As Interior Alaska experiences another near-record hot day, firefighters are wrapping up work on some fires and mobilizing to more pressing ones near Eagle. The BLM Alaska Fire Service is mobilizing crews and aircraft to Eagle to tackle the Sinnott Fire (#382), burning about 3 miles northwest of Eagle. The Sinnott Fire, at 800 acres, is burning in steep terrain north of Mission Creek, about 2 miles from the nearest cabin to the southeast. It has been reported as smoldering, creeping, and backing into the wind, with some isolated torching. The Yukon Crew and Denali Wildland Fire Module, both Chugachmiut fire teams based in the Kenai Peninsula, will travel to Eagle to assist in protecting properties and the town from the large fire burning in steep terrain.  

Video from the Hookies Fire Company in Tyrone shows an incredible first-person view of local firefighters battling a blaze in Blair County. Officials say firefighters battled a shed fire early Monday morning along the 100 block of Pot Pie Hill Road in Snyder Township. Authorities say no injuries were reported and responders say the flames didn't spread to any other buildings. The firefighter's helmet cam shows the intensity of the flames and a look at what the frontlines of battling a fire can look like from a first responder's perspective.  

VIDEO: Four Columbus fire stations will be getting technology that is meant to help first responders get better rest during a 24-hour shift. A shift like that can be challenging. Firefighters are usually woken up several times throughout the night. "The thought of sleeping just isn't a thing. It's more just rest. And not a true sleep," Battalion Chief Jeffrey Geitter said. In all but one Columbus fire station, no matter the type of call, everyone at the station hears the alarm to go. "The majority of our runs in the Columbus Division of Fire are medical related. So the paramedic vehicles go out often multiple times a night in certain stations. And so everyone at that station is now woken up for an incident they don't need to respond on," Geitter said. That is not the case at Station 16 in North Linden.  

PHOTOS: A Baltimore City fire boat used in the 1960s is now sitting on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, offshore of Lewes and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware—and unlike many shipwrecks, it was put there on purpose. The fire boat Mayor J. Harold Grady is the newest addition to Delaware's artificial reef system. On Monday, the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) Division of Fish and Wildlife added the fire boat and a World War II-era tugboat onto the well-known reef site that also includes more than 700 old New York City subway cars. The reef's newest addition, Baltimore's longtime fire boat, was named for Baltimore's mayor J. Harold Grady, who was serving at the time the vessel was commissioned in 1960.