Five children and one adult are hospitalized in critical condition Monday night after apparent exposure to carbon monoxide from a running car, the Fort Worth Fire Department says. The department said they received a call shortly after 8 p.m. from a child. When firefighters arrived at the front door, the same child who called 911 told them her mother was acting differently, authorities said. When first responders opened the door, the child collapsed. Officials also found others laid out on the floor including one person at the bottom of the stairs and another at the top. The five children and the adult, who are all unidentified at this time, are in critical condition at a local hospital. The five firefighters who went in to save them were placed on oxygen and were also taken to the hospital, according to the Fort Worth Fire Department.  

To work inside a county hospital like Parkland, you have to keep a steady gait while the ground shifts beneath your feet. That's what Katie Mapula loves about her job as the nursing director over all five intensive care units and burn center operations. You think you know what the day will look like, and then—boom—there's an urgent rush to make order of fresh chaos. On the morning of September 29, 2021, Mapula was making order of yet another exhausting COVID surge. The swath the Delta variant cut through Dallas had filled every bed in the ICU and then some. She had already converted 12 more beds on the Medical Surgery floor to handle the growing demand when—boom—a startling notification rang in. A firefighter called mayday on the channel that reaches the entire city emergency system. There had been an explosion in South Dallas.  

San Antonio firefighters are trying to figure out what caused a fire inside a converted garage at a home on the city's South Side late Monday night. The fire was called in just before 10 p.m. at a home in the 500 block of Hot Wells Boulevard, not far from South New Braunfels Avenue and Interstate 37. Firefighters said when they arrived, they found a fire in a garage that was converted into two apartments. They got a quick knock down of the fire. Fire officials said one person was living in each apartment, but they are now displaced. Nobody was home at the time of the fire. The cause is not currently known. A fire investigation team will try to determine the exact cause. Both the San Antonio Fire Department and the San Antonio Police Department responded to the call. Damage is estimated at around $30,000, the SAFD said.  

Amarillo firefighters extinguished a fire early Tuesday morning at a strip mall at Southeast 16th Avenue. No injuries were reported. Amarillo Fire Department said at 2:46 a.m. today, crews were called out to a structure fire at Southeast 16th Avenue and South Williams Street. When firefighters arrived to the strip mall, they found one office area with heavy smoke coming out of an open garage door. Firefighters went inside and found a car on fire in the work area. About 3:38 a.m., AFD put out the fire and prevented the fire from spreading. Fire crews set up a fan to ventilate the building and helped to clean some of the water from the work area.  

An investigation is underway after a family of five lost almost everything in a house fire over the weekend. Fire crews responded to a home at the 2500 block of Wooster Street Sunday afternoon. According to reports, when firefighters arrived at the scene, the house was engulfed in flames. Fortunately, all of the family members who live in the house were able to evacuate the property. "All five were accounted for on the scene. Crews operated with an offensive attack and they managed to extinguish the flames without any injuries to personnel or the family," said Laredo Fire Department Public Information Officer Ricardo Oliva. Oliva adds that the house was left uninhabitable so the family was picked up by relatives. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.  

VIDEO: Crews responded to a house fire in Waskom Saturday night (March 25). It happened Saturday night in the 700 block of Lake Road around 10 p.m. A neighbor says the two people inside made it out safely. Chief Murf King says it took firefighters around three hours to put the blaze out. Three other departments assisted in this effort. The fire department says nobody was home at the time of the fire; the family that lives in the home was out of town. No injuries were reported. Fire officials do not believe the fire started under any kind of suspicious circumstances. At this time, it's unclear how the fire started.  

A Soundview house fire has left multiple families without a home overnight, officials say. Firefighters responded to the house fire on Rosedale Avenue at around 11 p.m. Monday. The owners of the home lived there since 2017 and included three brothers and their parents who lived on the second floor and another family downstairs who rented the space. The owners say they were coming back from praying at the mosque for Ramadan when the fire started. Officials say the fire started on the second floor, but it's unclear how. Both families are OK, but the home has been completely destroyed.  

VIDEO: Changes are being made to work schedules for some Summerville firefighters that could give them more time with family. Traditionally, firefighters worked 24 hours in a row, and then they would get 48 hours off. So, you would work one day and then have two days off. But a new plan would give them a better schedule and spend more time with their loved ones. "We started off on this idea of giving our guys and gals and opportunity to go to an alternate schedule," explained Summerville Fire and Rescue Chief Richard Waring. They decided to test working 48 hours in a row, followed by four days off, about three months ago. "Put it out for a vote again and over 80% of the department was in favor of keeping the schedules. So all-in-all, I think it will fit their needs and give them a better work/life balance which we're all about," said Chief Waring.  

VIDEO: Fox 4 is following up on a recall for a brand of eye drops called EzriCare Artificial Tears or Delsam Pharma's Artificial Tears. According to the CDC and FDA, these eye drops have caused 3 deaths, dozens of infections, and more than a handful of vision loss cases. It was just 3 days ago that North Collier County said their Fire Captain has been affected by these eye drops. North Collier County Fire Rescue District posted a message on their social media extending their condolences to the captain adding the negligence associated with the product has far-reaching consequences for their department and the residents and visitors within our community. We took the concerns to a local optometrist to get you answers. "We've had phone calls and our patients are not on those lubricants but they are calling asking about what's on the news," says Dr. Jessica Cameron O. D. FAAO.  

VIDEO: The first ambulance service in the United States reportedly rolled to the aid of patients in Cincinnati, Ohio, on this day in history, March 28, 1866. "For many years, Bellevue Hospital in New York claimed to have introduced the first citywide ambulance service in 1869, but records show Cincinnati beat them to it," the Cincinnati Enquirer reported in 2018. It was citing the 1978 book, "The Ambulance: The Story of Emergency Transportation of Sick and Wounded Through the Centuries," by Katherine Traver Barkley. The book claims Commercial Hospital of Cincinnati at 12th Street and Central Avenue holds this claim to medical fame. "Hospital employment records listed employee No. 27, James R. Jackson, as an ambulance driver for $360 a year, according to Barkley," the Enquirer reports. "The 1866 Williams' Cincinnati Directory verifies that James A. Jackson worked as a ‘teamster,' or driver, for Commercial Hospital."  

VIDEO: The survivor of a house fire in Columbus is making good on his mission to reward the crew at the station that came to his rescue. The fire, more than 10 years ago, caused $325,000 in damage. "It was fully involved," Firefighter Jeffrey Yepez told WRBL. "When we pulled out, we could see heavy black smoke. So, we knew it was pretty bad. We had to hurry up and get our gear on really, really quick. I mean, it was fast." Yepez was one of the firefighters that responded to the scene Sept. 28, 2012. That day Jason Martin's car burst into flames while he was working on repairs. "It was the vehicle that I was working on when it caught on fire. Apparently, the fumes got sparked somehow. According to the investigation, it was my old refrigerator that may have sparked the fumes. I actually opened my garage door because I was like, ‘wow, the fumes are so bad here," Martin said.