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Multiple nearby fire departments sent equipment and personnel to help.

A total of 13 people were displaced by two separate multi-alarm fires that broke out in multi-family homes.

The boarder with mexico. th had ttu vaccination sites into water sites today long lines for bottled water as vaccinations were put on hold. and so many now facing the cost of repairing their homes. the burst pipes. this man returning to his dallas apartment to find it destroyed. fighting fires in this water emergency. frozen hydrants in san antonio slowing the battle against this raging blaze. hospitals facing water shortages as well. houstons memorial hermann trucking the water in now as emerge...

Got to be careful about using like, say generators or car inside a garage or any type of fire. carbon dioxide, its odorless and it can kill people very easily. >> reporter: houston hospitals treating at least 140 patients. six people from one family among them. a mother and child in critical condition. they were heating charcoal indoors to stay warm. and in sugar land, a grandmother and her three grandchildren died in a house fire overnight. the cause is under investigation. back in houston, fro...

To life-saving rescues. in new jersey tense moments, three teenagers stranded on a frozen bay, one falling in. rescue workers putting themselves at risk to drag her through the icy waters back to land and safety. in maine, two 15-year-old boys snowmobiling to their grandfathers house disappear, missing overnight as temperatures plunge below zero. thankfully they are found alive. a different story in the mountains of new hampshire. sub zero temperatures and 100 mile an hour winds a search for a m...

Full week of 2015. bundled up in minneapolis where it felt like minus 30. in wisconsin, rice lake covered in a sheet of ice. at least two dead in milwaukee. officials believe from exposure to the cold. snow causing this pile-up near des moines, iowa. up to two feet of snow pounding the great lakes from west michigan to western new york. the biting cold is stretching all the way to the deep south where they are still cleaning up from nine tornadoes in mississippi and alabama. in washington state,...

Deadly cold to start the first full week of 2015. bundled up in minneapolis where it felt like minus 30. in wisconsin, rice lake covered in a sheet of ice. at least two dead in milwaukee. officials believe from exposure to the cold. snow causing this pile-up near des moines, iowa. up to two feet of snow pounding the great lakes from west michigan to western new york. the biting cold is stretching all the way to the deep south where they are still cleaning up from nine tornadoes in mississippi an...

To stop at a crossing and was hit by a freight train. at least a dozen were injured, some seriously. the driver and a 17-year-old student were killed. there are no lights or gates at that. its believed the driver was a high school shop teacher. weather has been a factor in dozens of car accidents across the country. the east and midwest are in the grips of cold weather. high winds, snow and ice. not even the south immune at this point. more from abcs ted rowlands. >> reporter: winter weather m...

A new flare-up of one of the citys biggest fires in years. rick folbaum joins us with more. >> reporter: this is the fire that just wont die down, it actually started tuesday. firefighters got it under control early yesterday morning, but now its started back up again, and when the initial call went out, this is whats known as a 511 alarmer. flames so bad, a situation so dangerous that one-third of the citys on-duty firefighters were called into respond. and you can see how bad it got. this is t...

Welcome back. heres a look at some stories that caught our eye this morning. we start in chicago where 170 firefighters battled a five-alarm warehouse fire under freezing working conditions. fire crews were hampered by single digit temperatures, frozen hydrants and icy streets. the blaze jumped to another building before firefighters were abe to gain control. next, to a massive explosion in utah that forced homeowners to flee the area. a natural gas rig caught fire after an unknown substance s...