A fire at home in Northwest Bexar County sent 10 people, including five children, to the hospital Thursday morning. District 7 Fire Chief Kevin Clarkson said a family was trapped in the home when flames erupted around 6:45 a.m. in the 11000 block of Dublin Field, located in a neighborhood near Loop 1604 and Shaenfield Road. Everyone was evacuated by the time firefighters arrived, but the house was fully engulfed in flames, he said. The Bexar County Fire Marshal's Office said there were reports that people had to jump from the second story to escape, and neighbors helped by using ladders. Five children and five adults were taken to area hospitals for either burns or smoke inhalation. Their injuries are not expected to be life-threatening. One dog was treated by Bexar County Animal Control, and another dog is missing.  

Afew months ahead of the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Fort Worth will be one of 19 cities nationwide to host Honor 365's World Trade Center Exhibit, commemorating the heroes of that unthinkably tragic day. The exhibit is a replica model of the World Trade Center plaza created by Daan Van Der Steijn from Deurne, The Netherlands. The tagline is, "Remembering the One. Remembering Them All." The artist gifted the display to Honor365, a nonprofit organization that provides resource and referral support to veterans, first responders, and their families, with special emphasis on mental wellness and suicide prevention. The replica is touring throughout the United States until September 12, 2021. In Texas, it also has stops scheduled in Galveston and Houston.  

Dr. Vernon Easley, the assistant chief of training at the NAS Kingsville Fire Department, retired May 25 after more than 28 years as a firefighter, the last six at NASK. Easley said the plan is to remain in Texas, focus on businesses and traveling while relaxing with his wife, children and grandchildren. "Time to spend it with them," he said. At NASK, Easley has been responsible for the oversight, development, integration and implementation of training for the fire department. Easley joined the U.S. Air Force in 1992, trained as a firefighter and served seven years on active duty before transitioning to the civilian sector. Prior to coming to NASK in 2014, Easley served as assistant chief of operations at Marine Corps Installation pacific in Okinawa, Japan, and then as assistant chief of operations from January 2012 to December 2014 with the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) County Fire and Emergency Services.  

A man was arrested after Converse police say he set two cars on fire over the weekend. William Sharoy North, 44, has been charged with arson, according to booking records with the Bexar County Jail. He was arrested Wednesday following two separate incidents, one on Saturday morning in Converse and the other at an apartment complex on Perrin Beitel Road, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Investigators said that North went to a relative's house around 2 a.m. Saturday and started to kick at the front door. After the female relative called the police, he left the scene. At around 4:30 a.m., the woman heard knocking and opened the front door to find her car on fire, police said. She told officers she also saw a person walk away, get into a car and drive off, the affidavit states.  

San Antonio firefighters responded to a fire at an abandoned building on the city's Northwest Side early Thursday morning. The fire was called in by a passerby around 3:45 a.m. at a former car dealership in the 3400 block of Oakdale Drive, not far from Interstate 10 and Loop 410. Firefighters said when they arrived they found flames coming from the front of the building. They were able to put out the fire without incident. Fire officials said it looks like homeless people had been inside and may have started the fire. SAFD said the building is listed in their system as a dangerous structure since there are lots of hazards inside. Upon inspection they found debris and clothing piled, but no one inside the structure, firefighters said.  

The Austin Fire Department said it has an arson investigator on the scene after a fire Thursday morning in south Austin. Austin Energy said that fire was the cause of an outage that affected 3,000 people. AFD tweeted about the fire at 5:45 a.m. Thursday and said it was at an industrial area at 600 E. St. Elmo Road. That's near the road's intersection with Terry-O Lane and the address for Austin American Awning Company. One person was taken to the hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening, and AFD was able to put the fire out before it spread from behind one of the buildings. AFD said the arson investigator is trying to determine the cause of the fire.  

VIDEO: Flames and smoke filled the sky during a fire at a tire shop in Brooklyn early Friday morning. The FDNY is still trying to figure out how the massive fire on Church Avenue at East 57th Street in East Flatbush started, CBS2's Jenna DeAngelis reported. Cellphone video shows the blaze. Fire officials on the scene said racks of tires and debris were burning. "It was very scary because the fire started at 2:30 and by 2:37, when I called 911, the fire was, it was like a tornado," said Valerie Darden, who worried the flames would reach the McDonald's where she was working. A customer alerted her to the fire, Darden said. "I was in the drive-thru, and the customer said, ‘There's a fire.' I looked and I said, ‘Sir, you can have your coffee, we're closed,' because I had to call 911. I didn't know what to do," she told DeAngelis.  

VIDEO: Vandals defaced the city of Charleston's Fire Station No. 11 in West Ashley on the eve of the anniversary of the deadly Sofa Super Store blaze. City officials said at a news conference June 17 they would not allow the crime to overshadow the June 18 anniversary of the fire, which killed nine Charleston firefighters in 2007. "This fire station, it's very special," Mayor John Tecklenburg said. "It's right next to the Sofa Super Store, where nine valiant firefighters gave their lives. It's, in a way, a part of our continuing tribute to them and memorial to them." Charleston police officers were dispatched the morning of June 17 to the yet-to-be-open station at 1835 Savannah Highway after learning of damage to the property, according to an incident report. A fire battalion chief told the officers the building was struck by gunfire several times.  

Families across the nation will gather to honor their fathers this weekend. Jay Young's children will attempt to celebrate Father's Day as well, but the whole family knows it may not happen. With Jay's three sons, Eric, Justin and Jamison, following in their dad's footsteps to become emergency medical technicians, it's as likely as not that one of them will get called into work or a pager will go off and they will have to leave the party to go save a life or help someone in need. It's a lifestyle they've learned to live with — and to love — since making the choice to serve as part-time EMTs in addition to their regular day jobs. "You get used to it. You don't get much sleep sometimes, but you find that patient outcomes are the most important part," said Jamison, a registered nurse at Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire.  

VIDEO: The Pinellas Park Fire Department is among the first in the Tampa Bay area to team up with Ring for a new safety system. Ring's "Neighbors" application allows first responders and community members who download the app to easily exchange information about local incidents. Leaders with the Pinellas Park Fire Department tell 8 On Your Side it could be a helpful tool when investigators are searching for the cause of suspicious fires. "We're arriving at the scene after the fire is out and it's hard to get answers to those questions. But how amazing would it be if we could actually get those answers as they were starting," said Jillian Rose with PPFD. Using the app, investigators target a specific area around the incident and send an alert to everyone who has the app. Detectives can ask for video and information.  

A pitbull picked up off the streets of New York City is getting another chance at life, with a nonprofit at her side. Zoey, the pitbull, is was originally dropped off at a shelter in NYC. Workers there labeled her unmanageable and said she was not a good candidate for adoption. She was sent to a rescue in Florida called Dogs Playing for Life, where workers started working to train her. However, she still had a lot of energy and they started looking for ways she could express it in a positive way. So, they reached out to Throw Away Dogs Project to evaluate her and see if she could be trained to be a law enforcement K-9. The nonprofit trains dogs to be K-9 units in law enforcement, donating them to police departments across the U.S. They have donated around 41 dogs so far, according to officials.