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KSAZ FOX 10 News 9pm October 17, 2016

To jump from a first alarm to a fouralarm fire in the blink of an eye. Stefania okolie reports on this developing story. Stefania . Yeah, thats right, linda. Investigators say it was all about what was up in the apartment buildings. Construction crews just had up the wood, so that made fire burn very fast and very easily. In a matter of minutes, a single alarm fire fire and gilbert fire rescue crews were battling these ferocious flames, four apartment buildings destroyed, three of them ultimately collapsing. The fire spreading not only because of the intense heat but the framework, mostly plywood. Without drywall you up, the rate at which flames spread is drastically different. Its much faster. Within a few minutes, it had got out. Buildings nearby were evacuated, families forced to wait on the corners. We felt very stranded. We didnt have any of our belongings, our phones. I was pretty freaked out. It was pretty overwhelming. The scene like what we saw back in april at gilbert road. The frame made the fires hotter and fast spreading. In neither of these massive fire neighbors feeling thankful as well. No one passed away in this, and for that im exciting and going to praise god today. Reporter the fire was ruled accidental. As for last nights fire, the atf and fire investigators have to come back out again tomorrow when the safe to go inside to figure out what exactly caused that fire. Of course when we get that up to date, well be sure to let you know. Live in the studio, im stefania okolie, fox 10 news. New at 9 00, a glendale family will have to find a new place to stay after a fire ripped through their home. Now the blaze happened near 47th avenue and bethany home road. According to fire officials, the flames started in the backyard on a grill. The flames then went up into the eves and into the attic. Fire crews were able to contain the flames to the attic and prevent it from spreading. We spoke with a woman who was out trying to get people to vote in the election when she first saw the flames. And i saw the smoke and i thought somebody was having a cookout since its sunday and theres a lot of games going on, but as i looked closer and started walking i see the red flames on the roof, and thats when i grabbed my phone, called 911 and ran to the door to see if everyone was okay. Neighbors say that the family just moved into this home a few months ago. Thankfully, no one was hurt by the fire. Now on to an Apartment Fire that left one woman without a this happened near 12th street and Indian School road. An Apartment Unit caught fire after the woman living there reported hearing a loud noise. And as she was able to get out with one of her dogs, but sadly another dog and three of her cats are missing tonight. Crews were able to keep the fire from spreading to other units. One woman was sent to the hospital however. Its still unclear if her injuries are related to that fire. The cause of the blaze still under investigation. Two teenagers 20yearold are sent to the hospital after they overdosed. Now, this happened earlier this evening in glendale. Now, this is near 44th avenue and ocatillo road. Police say these teenagers were using some kind of narcotics and were unresponsive but they have since awakened. So far no word on what they were using. The case remains under investigation. Well, tododay hundreds arizona fallen firefighters memorial. Its located at the wesley bolen plaza, and it honors those who have died on the job. Fox 10s Courtney Griffin was there. She has more. . God bless america . Reporter since 1902, 119 arizona firefighters and paramedics have died in the line of duty. Now their names are engraved in stone, and they will forever be a part of history. The servants is that we will remember. This is part of the remembrance. This allows families to have a place to come to see their father, brother, cousin, whatever it happens to be. Charlene richards works for the department and her husband was with phoenix fire for 25 years. She says though he has passed on, shell come here to remember him. Ill be here every year from badges in memory. He loved the fire department. Hes proud of how far the city has come to honor his fellow firemen. Its really a step forward. Unexpected, also. The memorial includes a bell tower and ten life sized bronze statues, each weighing 500800 pounds. It took a total of 20 years to plan and ten years to develop. It officially opened up last are. It will kill you when it decides its going to do that, and these men and women risked their lives every single day for you and your families. And thats why this memorial is here. Its a quiet place to honor the sacrifice and dedication of those running in while others are running out. Courtney griffin, fox 10 news. 17th avenue and washington street. If you would like to donate to the effort, you can head to fox10phoenix. Com. We have a link there. Well, as long as everyone is okay, i thought this was the story of the day. It was actually pretty funny. Firefighters in tuscon freeing this guy after he was stuck in his chimney this morning. Fire Officials Say that 26yearold locked himself out of his house. Hey, ive done that. But then he tried to get back inside ive never done that. This guy was trapped for four hours before a neighbor heard hm calling for help and called 911. Firefighters then lowered a rope into the chimney, and as you can see, they were able to slowly get him out. They say he was far enough down that his feet were actually touching the floor of the house, but he was, oh, i like that. I didnt see that picture before. Its a sigh of relief and a hug of gratitude there. He was just so wedged in he thats good to see. He was not harmed. The buffalo chips restaurant reopened this weekend following that devastating fire that happened almost one year ago. The buffalo chip reopened with help from the community, a lot of help, actually. People donated historic items to make a wall of relics of the things that were lost in the fire. This new building is connected to parts of the building that were not destroyed in the fire. People visiting say excited to see the bar back up and running. I think its amazing. I think its going to be amazing. I think the new building is amazing. I think larry is going to do, you know, more things for the community. I think its just wonderful. Reporter the restaurant caught fire and nearly burned to the ground on thanksgiving day of last year. In the mood for a taco . Well, these people certainly were today. This is the valleys taco festival, or rather contest, to prove it. And from twitter rants to snl skits and more emails, todays president ial race certainly has it all. Well bring it to you after the break. Plus, its on. The Prime Minister of iraq says hes getting tough on i. S. I. S. Well, if the Arizona Cardinals are going to get back to where they want to go, protecting home field is number one. Tomorrow night against the new york jets you want to talk to, right . Richard saenz with this guy, number 31, david johnson, coming off player of the week honors last week in the nfl, ready to go against the jets. Well preview the game with max starks, the best nfl analyst in the business. Plus, david tippet, head coach of the coyotes coming out of that overtime win last night against the flyers, hockey, football, cards, jets, monday james p. Walsh to keep our Community Safe we need a sheriff who will put fighting Violent Crime ahead of his own political agenda. Paul penzone has been a decorated crimefighter for over 20 years. A police officer, undercover investigator, and dea Task Force Agent of the year. Paul penzone caught murderers, put drug kingpins behind bars, and created awardwinning programs that protect our community. Youre watching the best, fox 10 news. Iraq says its getting tough in the fight against i. S. I. S. State television aired an announcement by iraqs Prime Minister, saying the start of an operation to reclaim the control of i. S. I. S. This will be the biggest military operation in iraq since american troops left there in 2011. Meanwhile, two i. S. I. S. Strongholds in syria were captured by syrian rebel soldiers backed by turkish warplanes and a u. S. Led air strike campaign. On to politics in this country. Donald trump says he is a candidate under siege. Fox news is following trumps campaign. He reports from outside trump tower in new york city. Reporter trump kicked off sunday tweeting this morning, polls close, but can you believe i lost large numbers of women voters based on events that never happened . Media rigging election. Libertarian candidate gary trumps denials last week that he ever forced himself on women in the aftermath of a video in which he described doing that included appearing to demean some of his accusers as unworthy of his alleged groping advances. Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that i can tell you. Trump this morning attacked saturday night live on twitter for last nights show opener. What about all of the women accusing you of Sexual Assault . They need to shut the hell quote, watched saturday night live. Hit job on me. Time to retire the boring show. Once again, the media is piling on with unsubstantiated claims, as the headlines, while they ignore the avalanche of hard evidence about corruption, emanating out of Hillary Clintons years as secretary of state. But House Speaker paul ryan who said that he will no longer defend trump nor campaign with him says that he is confident the election will be fair. Former candidate romney made a similar statement. So did pence. The stakes are so in so high in this election, but as donald trump said in the first the will of the people. Trump said clinton seemed pumped up at the last one. Clinton sidestepped. All i know for sure is that donald trump is going to be ready for the debate on wednesday night, and the American People are going to see someone who is prepared to lead this country. And Severe Damage inside a republican headquarters. This is in Orange County North Carolina. Police say someone threw a liquid overnight. Theres even spray paint on the outside, referring to, quote, nazi republicans. No one was hurt, but police are alerting other party offices. We are learning tonight more about what could be an illegal move by a member of the Clinton State Department team to influence the fbis investigation into her email scandal. Fox News Reporter has the state Department Executive patrick kennedy. To your knowledge, did anyone associated with secretary clinton or her campaign ask or instruct kennedy to see classification of emails . Absolutely not. I have no knowledge that that happened. Absolutely not. Late friday, the fbi sent a third batch of interviews from the clinton investigation to the house intelligence and government Oversight Committees. Republican lawmakers briefed by staffers say kennedy wanted the classification of at least one would benefit the department as well as clinton. And in exchange, there was discussion of more slots for fbi agents overseas. This is a flashing red light of potential criminality. Government Oversight Committee Jason Chaffetz said campaigning in kansas, congressman mike pompeo phone. By the state department, every effort was made not to protect our american servicemen in the field, not American National security information but Hillary Clinton. A state Department Spokesperson says this allegation is inaccurate and does not align with the facts. Kennedy held a closeddoor redacted where kennedy pointedly asked redacted to change the fbis classification regarding one of Hillary Clintons emails. A state Department Spokeswoman read from a statement. We have been clear all along that our freedom of information act review of secretary clintons emails was a complex and multiple step process. A bureau spokesmen said the issues were not the email classification was never changed. The new fbi files could be public as early as monday when an independent review will be possible. In washington, catherine herrid herridge, fox news. Accusations flying against both candidates making the final president ial debate between trump and clinton wednesday night a crucial one, which is why youll want to keep it right here on fox 10. Our own john hook and steve krafft will be reporting live good evening, everybody. Do you see this big h here . Do you know what it stands for . It stands for, hey, wheres the cool weather . Well see if we can get some, coming up in the forecast in a few minutes. Yeah, i want to know that too. Hey, where is the cool weather . Have you connected with me on social media. I want to know that too. You can like me Facebook Page at facebook. Com lindawilliamsfox10. Also follow me on twitter. Despite incredible attempts on my part to get a good shot the, what do we call it, a harvest moon, a farmers moon, a jupiter moon . Super moon. Super moon. All kinds of moons, i couldnt get a decent shot. Its a camera phone, after all. So instead i put in pictures of my favorite other pictures of hey, everybody. Your exclusive Accuweather Ready for a big week. Its going to be great out there. We are in for some really nice temps, if you love it warm, and if you didnt, you wouldnt be here. Because we have got more nineties on the way. Heres your story, beautiful night across phoenix, and the temp slowly falling, we are in the mid80s right now, and not much of a breeze out there, so get ready for kind of a still night. This big huge area of High Pressure continues to anchor itself over us, and it will be our Constant Companion here for the next several days, this heavier weather across the northwest has been trying to days, that very big storm there unfortunately is going to be kind of shunted up to the north of us. So we are going to be left with i think fair skies right on into tomorrow and for the next several days. So the temps at the moment, here you go, 82 at lake havasu city, 64 in sedona, the same in globe, and as you look across the valley, our numbers look good too, 74 in surprise, 81 in chandler, 73 in apache junction, sunrise tomorrow at 6 34. How about the rest of the nation . We have got beautiful conditions for the middle of the country. Say youre in maybe a morton, illinois. Everything is great there, always, really. Its a pretty nice spot to be. Across the Northern Plains and into trockies, things are a little more unsettled. We have seen some cold weather across the rockies but things are kind of this is the main feature, this big storm that continues to lash at the coast of washington and oregon. And it looks like it is just about done doing so. So things will start to calm down here over the next days. Tonight, 70 for lake havasu, 50 for prescott and casa grande. Tomorrow 87 in safford, and it looks like low 90s or upper 80s for the rest of the desert parts of the state. Forecast for the next week and a half. It looks pretty nice. Well keep the 90s going, just about the average, maybe a couple of degrees warmer than te usual, but no significant weather makers on the near horizon, so i have a feeling that over the next couple of days, youre going to find things looking pretty swell. Swell. And really kind of in the happiness business, linda. Yes, you are. I think that i am anyway. Sometimes it doesnt work out in my favor, but so no far no real haters back off. Thats what i say. You know what. In the words of a great american. Im not as happy as i could be, but i wasnt as miserable as i was in july, so things are working out. That sounds like a fridge magnet. Its a good trajectory. When we go down, you know, in temperatures, i think everyone gets happier. Heading into the best seven months of the year. Yes, we are, good way to look at it. Describe why we live here. October through april. All right. Im going to sto stick with tha thats my story. We are looking at now this is the 6th annual hawaii chocolate festival. It took place this weekend. Hundreds made their way to the festival where twodozen exhibiters showed off their chocolate. They should have given it away but they are in hawaii, so life is pretty good. Festivals mission is to increase interest in hawaii chocolate industry. It may not be taco tuesday but that didnt stop people from going to the 7th annual taco festival at salt river fields. Now, people created teams, and this is the competition. More than 50 teams competed to be in the grand champion title. The National Taco association crowned as grand champion. We spoke with the winner of the competition. Theres the winner. Victory what was his winning strategy, you ask . I took two tacos at a time. I had a lot of crumbs left, so i stuffed them into my last taco. Of course i had open water. I drank it down. Ah, two tacos at a time. Thats the key. An estimated 100,000 tacos were served at the event, which looks like a blast. Believe it or not, early voting has begun in arizona and several other states, but do all of these early ballots point to a win for Hillary Clinton or donald trump . Plus no one raising a glass toasting one company, the distillery that is filled with angry workers. Yes, i love to end sunday with a good implosion. Fox 10 news is back. Arizona just one of several states that has begun early voting and, as fox News Reporter bryan llenas tells us, all of this early voting is prompting candidates to increase their campaign efforts. More than 750,000 ballots have been cast around the country, 36 states and voting before election day, and it continues to increase in popularity. More than 45 Million People are expected to vote early this year. Thats about 40 of all total votes expected to be cast, and so far early voting Shows Positive signs for

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