VIDEO: South suburban firefighters saved a teenage girl's beloved Taylor Swift concert dress from a destructive house fire early Saturday. A homeowner's nightmare became reality that night when flames burst from the garage of their Frankfort home. The family said the home is a total loss, but because of the help of their neighbors and the fire department, some of their most sentimental and valuable belongings were saved, along with that dress. Grace Farrell was home with her friend and grandpa just before midnight as her parents were out of town, and within minutes, their home on Amhearst Court went up in flames. "We were brushing our teeth, getting ready to go to bed, and the lights flickered, sounded like someone was breaking into the house," Grace said.  

A southern Illinois fire department secured a large financial donation to help acquire some tools to help fight fires. The Brookport Fire Department received a donation of $15,675 on Tuesday, presented by the Illinois State Fire Marshal. The money is part of a small tools and equipment grant that is given out every year. While 274 departments applied for the funding, only 67 departments received funds from the grant. A total of $1.5 million was available this year, however, the Illinois State Fire Marshal's office hopes to secure close to $4 million for next year's grant. The Brookport Fire Department will use the funds to purchase new radios and radio batteries which will allow better communications with their crew members, along with other first responders.  

The Peoria Fire Department announced Tuesday that Molly, an arson detection dog working with the department, and her handler, Capt. Josh Harris, earned certification this month and can be fully utilized to determine how fires got started. According to a Peoria fire Facebook post, they earned their certification as an Ignitable Liquid Detection Canine Team. The pair needed to pass five tests for their certification, including a pinpoint accuracy test, an open area search, a building search, a clothing search and a scent discrimination test. The department stated in the post they are extremely proud of Molly and Harris for their hard work. The department's other team, a dog named Rock and Arson Investigator Brad Pierson are also working to receive the same certification.  

VIDEO/PHOTOS: A fire tore through a large industrial building in the Salmon Creek area north of Vancouver late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning and destroyed at least seven businesses, according to a news release from Clark County Fire District 6. There were no reported injuries. Dispatch records show crews were initially called to a commercial fire at 14615 NE 13th Court at around 10:45 p.m. Tuesday. Employees inside the building at that address reported smoke coming from an upstairs window and heard fire alarms going off, according to the news release. They called 911 when smoke began filling the building a short time later. Fire crews arrived to find the structure fully engulfed in flames, and took a defensive approach to keep the fire from spreading to nearby buildings. Firefighters described the fire as violent and fast-moving.  

PHOTOS: A shadowy figure pitched a Molotov cocktail onto the veranda of the Texas Governor's Mansion 15 years ago, then vanished into the night-cloaked oaks. We might never know who torched and nearly destroyed the Texas landmark, now 167 years old, on June 8, 2008. Although there was surveillance video, the Texas Department of Public Safety has yet to charge anyone, and the statute of limitations for the crime expired in 2019. DPS, which is responsible for securing the governor, the mansion and the state Capitol, did not respond to a request for comment. Gregg Cox, former Travis County assistant district attorney, told KVUE in 2019 there is still a small chance that someone could be prosecuted. That's because the arsonist could be charged with the crime only if they lived outside of Texas during the first 10 years since the fire, Cox said.  

VIDEO: Dane County EMS is reporting double the national average success rate when returning a person who suffered cardiac arrest to quality of life. "We respond to just over 400 sudden cardiac arrests in a given year. In Dane County, for every patient that we respond to, we have about a 15% success rate in returning that person to a quality of life. Nationally, that's at right around 7% for the quality of life," said EMS data analyst Eric Anderson. Anderson says when a bystander responds with CPR, the survival rate jumps to 65%. SSM Health EMS regional medical director, Dr. Kacey Kronenfeld, says a huge part of the success is bystander CPR, getting crucial compressions started immediately while EMS is on the way. The only way this is possible is by training 911 call-takers on how to best convey CPR instructions over the phone.  

An FDNY spokesperson said Wednesday that no firehouses will be used to help address the city's ongoing migrant crisis despite a fake memo circulating online. Social media users flooded websites with the fake memo, purportedly from Chief of Operations John Esposito, Tuesday night saying that firehouses would shelter migrants in their living quarters under orders from the office of Mayor Eric Adams, but FDNY spokeswoman Amanda Farinacci confirmed Wednesday that it was a fake. "Tuesday night, a letter appearing to be an official FDNY internal document was circulated, purporting that firehouses will be used to house migrants. This is categorically false," she said. "The document is a fake, and there will be no firehouses used to house migrants."  

VIDEO/PHOTOS: Firefighters got real-world training they hope never to have to use in one of Norfolk Southern's railyards in East Point Tuesday afternoon. The training comes a little more than four months after a devastating derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, which displaced about 5,000 residents. "We can do better," said Alan Shaw, CEO of Norfolk Southern, promising changes. "This is an effort to make [communities] safer." Metro Atlanta is a major freight rail hub - and also where the company is headquartered. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp joined firefighters and state transportation and emergency management officials on a specially designed train that gives first responders an up-close look at how rail transport works and how they can prepare for worst-case scenarios.