Three firefighters were killed on Saturday while responding to the Snyder Fire, a wildfire burning along the Utah-Colorado border, the U.S. Wildland Fire Service announced overnight.
The arbitrator's opinion says the City of Houston failed to provide firefighters with a pay raise after it secured additional revenue under a new state law.
San Francisco fire crews rescued a woman who had gone over a cliff and was stuck on the rocks with waves crashing below.
Houston fire officials said the firefighter was rushed to the hospital after falling through a burned-out second-floor balcony in an apartment complex fire near Sharpstown.
On Tuesday, fire officials said the fire is now 200 acres and remains 75% contained. So far, no properties are threatened, and no evacuations have been ordered, but authorities urged residents to remain on alert.
The life-saving mission happened Monday night as firefighters lifted a 16-year-old boy from the shaft of one of the buttresses.