A Dallas firefighter who gave more than 40 years of his life to the department has died after complications with COVID-19, Dallas Fire-Rescue members said Thursday. He died at 12 p.m. Thursday, and it was Dallas Fire-Rescue's first coronavirus-related death. The firefighter, 62-year-old David Leos, was diagnosed with COVID-19 on July 17 and remained hospitalized for over two months. The diagnosis came two days after his birthday. Family members told WFAA that Leos was put on a ventilator roughly four weeks ago and were told by doctors Wednesday that Leos' kidneys were failing and that the damage done to his body was beyond reversible. "We've all been coming in to say our goodbyes," his sister-in-law Jeane Leos said. "It just isn't fair. This disease can take someone from a family so unexpectedly."  

One firefighter was hurt in a two-alarm fire at a warehouse in northwest Dallas. The fire at the Silver Star Wholesale Building off Harry Hines Boulevard started around 8:30 p.m. Thursday night. When firefighters arrived, the warehouse was already engulfed in flames. It suffered significant damage. Dallas Fire-Rescue said the injured firefighter was taken to the hospital but is expected to be okay. It's not clear what caused the fire.  

No one was injured after a shed caught on fire behind a Temple home early Thursday evening, according to authorities. The Temple Fire Department and the Temple Police responded to the scene of the fire near the Intersection of East Xavier Avenue and North Main Street just after 5:45 p.m. Fire crews found heavy smoke and flames coming from a shed behind the home. Fire crews were able to stop the fire before it was able to spread to the home, authorities told 6 News. What caused the fire is not known at this time. No other information was released.  

The Woodlands Fire Department responded to a reported grass fire on Choral Grove Court next to The Jones Forest. As units were responding the call was upgraded to a structure fire with additional callers reporting a shed was on fire and threatening two homes. Needham Fire & Rescue/ Montgomery County ESD#4 Engine 64 and Truck 104 made a quick attack and were able to limit fire damage to the shed and a wooden privacy fence. One home suffered heat damage to the windows facing the fire. There were no reported injuries and Montgomery County Fire Marshal's Office is investigating fire cause. Also assisting were Magnolia Volunteer Fire Department Conroe Fire Department and Montgomery County Hospital District.  

This weekend marks 10 years since the Bastrop Complex Fire, one of the largest wildfires in Texas history. Two people died and 32,000 acres were destroyed in the blaze that lasted 55 days. For many Bastrop residents, the scars from those weeks have been slow to fade. "This fire made its own lightning. It made its own wind. It made its own rain. It was a storm inside of a storm," said Michelle Byrd. She was one of the many volunteer firefighters on the front lines as the fire tore through her community. "I told a friend, as long as I'm a firetruck, fighting fires, I felt like I was in control. Turns out, not so much." Michelle and her husband lived in the Tahitian Village neighborhood. "When I pulled up in my driveway, it was raining fire," Michelle recounts with tears in her eyes.  

The roof of a Plano mattress store collapsed Thursday afternoon. The collapse happened at the Sleep Experts in the 2000 block of Dallas Parkway.Fire crews were called out just before 4:30 p.m. The store was not open at that time, and no one was inside. Responding firefighters worked to shore up the remaining portion of the roof so investigators could enter the store safely. The gas and water have been turned off. The cause of the collapse is under investigation.  

VIDEOS: A house exploded in New Jersey Thursday morning just hours after it was evacuated due to flood waters from Ida, and a person who was traveling in the vicinity was injured by the blast. It happened around 5:44 a.m. on River Road near Whittier Street in Rahway. Several residents posted on social media that they heard or felt the explosion, which was caught on Ring video from a nearby home. Police say the residents of the home evacuated around 1 a.m. due to heavy flooding, and at some point between then and the explosion, gas was discharged into the house. The blast leveled the house and damaged several nearby homes. One man who was driving by at the time of the explosion suffered minor injuries and was being treated at a local hospital. Rahway Police, Rahway Fire Department and Elizabethtown Gas responded to the scene.  

PHOTOS: This is wrong, Michael Arad thought. It was 2003. Arad was 34, a few years removed from graduate school and working as an architect for New York City's housing department when the call went out for designs for a memorial at ground zero. An open competition would produce a winning design. Architect Daniel Libeskind the designer of the Freedom Tower, had charge of the master plan for the site and had set the design guidelines for the memorial. But Arad bristled at the lines Libeskind had drawn, the lines the designs were expected to stay inside. Libeskind wanted the entire 8-acre site to be 60 feet below street level, an enormous pit in the middle of the city, Arad calls it. The young architect was convinced it was the wrong way to go.  

Clemson recruited Noah DeHond to play football in 2017. The Rochester, New York native played on the offensive line. He was redshirted his freshman year before suffering a neck injury in 2018. He never got a chance to play in a game. "I have no regrets about my time with the football team," DeHond said. "I gave it everything I had, and I left better than I came in." After retiring from football, DeHond decided to follow another dream. "I had my little Halloween fire outfit when I was a kid," he said. He is still at Clemson, but he's on a different team now. He traded his football helmet for a Clemson University firefighter helmet. "My freshman year, I drove by the fire station because it's right by my dorm. And I was like, ‘I wonder if I could do an internship there?'" he said.  

PHOTOS: Cairo's first fire engine, a 1936 Dodge fire truck, has found a new home at Grand Island's Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer. It was the first fire engine purchased by the Village of Cairo and belonged to the Cairo Volunteer Fire Department. "They have put a lot of work into restoring it and love it very much, and they're donating it here so we can share it with everybody," Stuhr Curator Kari Stofer said. The 1936 fire engine has long been a feature of Cairo community events, and served Cairo into the 2010s. The vehicle can now be seen at Stuhr's Steam Learning Center and Farm Machinery building. "We love to highlight other communities besides Grand Island, and something that's so striking is the fire truck," Stofer said. "We're really honored to be able to take care of it and share it with all of Hall County and Nebraska."  

Ask any 10 firefighters to name the best movie about their profession and I'll bet seven or eight immediately would cite the Chicago-set "Backdraft," which to this day sets the bar for the most impressive staging of raging, roaring, realistic fires, accomplished primarily through practical effects on controlled sets, with the addition of some spectacular blending of visual effects courtesy of Industrial Light & Magic. Ron Howard's admittedly sentimental and sometimes bloated love letter to the heroes who run into burning buildings traffics heavily in cliches about Chicago firefighters and in particular those of Irish-American descent, and the melodrama often gets soapy — but every time there's a fire in a warehouse or an apartment building or an old auditorium or a private home, we can practically feel the heat and smell the smoke as the flames lick the walls and roar all around.