AURORA, Ore. --

A pilot practicing takeoffs and landings at the Aurora Airport smashed into the roof of a nearby home in a crash that seriously injured him but left the homeowner unharmed.

Marion County deputies and the Aurora firefighters responded to a home in the 14000 block of Cessna Street Northeast at about 12:30 p.m. Friday and found a 1956 Aeronca Champion 7-AE sticking out of the manufactured home's roof.

VANCOUVER, Wash. --

Two neighbors helped a woman escape from an early morning fire that caused $500,000 in damage to a Vancouver apartment building, firefighters said.

Police dispatchers said they received a 911 call at about 1 a.m. Friday from a woman screaming, "My apartment is on fire." The line then line went dead.

Vancouver fire crews arrived at the Autumn Chase Apartments in the 11000 block of Northeast Seventh Street about 5 minutes later.

Sept. 03--South Jacksonville firefighters want to reunite a kitten rescued from a storm sewer and its owner.

Firefighters were called about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday after a resident reported hearing what sounded like cries from an animal trapped in the storm sewer in the 2200 block of Magnolia Drive.

Firefighters pulled off manhole covers around the location to find the animal, which turned out to be a kitten.

Host Bob Duemmel hosted a roundtable podcast at Firehouse Expo in July with a variety of technical rescue team members. Bob's guest's include: FDNY Lt. Mickey Conboy, Elizabeth, NJ, Firefighter Michael Donahue, retired FDNY Battalion Chief Fred LaFemina and retired FDNY Captain Tony Tricarico.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.
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A doctor involved in an "on-again, off-again" relationship apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend's home by sliding down the chimney, police said Tuesday. Her decomposing body was found there three days later.

Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac, 49, first tried to get into the house with a shovel, then climbed a ladder to the roof last Wednesday night, removed the chimney cap and slid feet first down the flue, Bakersfield police Sgt. Mary DeGeare said.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.

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A twin-engine aircraft made an emergency landing Tuesday morning along Interstate 10, avoiding vehicles on the crowded highway, but snarling traffic for hours.

The pilot and a passenger were able to walk away after the 8:15 a.m. crash landing. There was a small leak of fuel from the aircraft, Local 6 news partner WJXT reported.

COLUMBIA, Tenn.

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Rescue teams pulled off a tricky and dangerous rescue. But after they saved a man from a grain silo, he disappeared.

Emergency workers spent more than an hour Monday at the silo on Hayes Denton Road in Columbia. They had to lower a harness into the silo, and with a firefighter in there to help, the man was pulled to safety.

But as soon as he was on the ground, he took off.

Authorities didn't get his name and don't know how he became trapped.

PHOENIX --

A small electrical fire forced the evacuation of a Phoenix high-rise building that houses the Arizona Department of Revenue on Monday morning.

Phoenix fire officials said about 600 people were in the building at 1600 W. Monroe Street to start the work week when a smoke alarm sounded about 8:22 a.m.

The building was evacuated, and firefighters discovered heavy smoke in the basement level, where they found an electrical panel that had shorted out and triggered a sprinkler activation.

WEARE, N.H. --

A man was pinned underneath wooden trusses after a wall gave way at a home under construction in Weare on Monday.

Fire officials said Roger Hardy and his son were working on an addition to a home on South Sugar Hill Road when the wall collapsed. Hardy couldn't free himself, but a group of men working for GN Fencing at a project next door heard the loud bang and ran to help.

The men who came to Hardy's aid were also off-duty Manchester firefighters, and they were able to free him.

ALIQUIPPA, Pa. --

A hazmat team is responding to a large junkyard fire Monday morning in Aliquippa, Beaver County.

At least a dozen fire companies were called to the scene on Steel Street, where large piles of scrap metal and junk cars were burning.