No one was injured, but six people are reportedly without a home after an apartment fire in Killeen, according to the Killeen Fire Department. Killeen FD said the fire broke out in an apartment complex in the 900 block of West Adams Avenue just before 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 28. The department said units arrived on the scene around 2:59 P.M., where they saw heavy smoke and fire coming from a second-floor apartment. Killeen FD said the alarm was upgraded with additional units, with 36 total personnel responding to the scene. According to the department, the fire affected four units on the second floor, resulting in heavy water damage to the four units below. Flames also reportedly got into the attic space of the building. The Killeen Fire Department said crews were able to bring the fire under control within an hour and 15 minutes.  

VIDEO/PHOTOS: At the request of local officials in Hawaii, the Texas State University Police Department's mental health officer and Brady, the university's therapy dog, went on a two-week trip to Maui to help victims and first responders there. Officer Kendra Marsteller and Pawfficer Brady are a certified therapy team that helps individuals in crisis and victims of crime. "Residents, volunteers, responders, Mayor's office, prosecutor's office. We were all over the place," Marsteller said. Marsteller said they were there to help people work through their emotions and bring some joy. "Literally everybody that saw him just lit up," she said. "We've had officers just lay and put their leg on him and lie next to him." As an emotional support dog, Brady was trained to do this. "They smell the chemical imbalances," Marsteller said. "So I see him go up to people who you would never know was going through something."  

PHOTO: A predawn house fire in a neighborhood near Chollas Lake displaced 11 residents Wednesday and left a firefighter injured, authorities reported. The blaze erupted about 5 a.m. in a detached garage next to a home in the 3100 block of Chateau Way in Lemon Grove, Heartland Fire & Rescue spokesman Andy McKellar said. The flames engulfed the outbuilding before spreading to the eaves of the residence, then into its attic and living quarters, McKellar said. The residents were able to safely escape the fire prior to the arrival of emergency crews. It took firefighters about 45 minutes to get the blaze under control, with the job complicated by heavily cluttered conditions inside the house, the spokesman said. A firefighter who suffered a minor shoulder injury while working to douse the flames was taken to Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa.  

VIDEO: The Duluth Fire Department recently put a new Quint 4 apparatus into service with two features unique to the vehicle. "One is the HAAS safety cloud. It's an alerting system that alerts drivers that are using Apple maps, or if you're using Waze, or if you have a Jeep, Chrysler or Dodge make that's 2008 or newer, this system will actually alert you when the fire truck is approaching you," explained Deputy Chief Mike Consie. "So it calculates rates to determine if the fire truck and your vehicle will actually intersect, whether it's head on or to the side and it alerts the driver, it will tone down your stereo and it will actually pop up an alert saying ‘warning, emergency vehicle approaching'." Once the Quint 4 arrives on scene and is placed in park, the vehicle will automatically set a geofence up around it.  

The man who shot into a southeast Oak Cliff apartment in 2021, severing a gas line and causing an explosion that injured several people, including Dallas firefighters, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Wednesday, according to the Dallas County District Attorney's Office. Phillip Dankins, 30, was sentenced to 12 years on a drug charge and 12 years on a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm, the DA's office said. The sentences will be served concurrently. According to court documents, Dankins shot into a unit where his girlfriend and son were living at Highland Hills Apartments in September 2021, rupturing a gas line inside. Hours later, firefighters responded to the complex for reports of a gas leak. Dallas Fire-Rescue Capt. Christopher Gadomski, Driver Engineer Ronald W. Hall, Officer Pauline Perez and Officer Andrew Curtis were among those dispatched.  

PHOTOS: A truck got stuck in a New York City tunnel between Brooklyn and Manhattan causing a miles-long traffic jam, resulting in firefighters sawing apart the vehicle's trailer, officials said. The 18-wheel tractor-trailer truck became wedged about a mile into the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel on Thursday morning, and it took responding crews around two hours to remove the vehicle, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. "This driver blatantly ignored numerous highway warning signs and a Bridge and Tunnel Officer who tried to stop it from entering the tunnel," MTA Bridges and Tunnels President Catherine Sheridan said in a statement. "Those reckless actions caused delays to the end of the morning commute, inconveniencing hundreds of other drivers."