Good reminder from the Chapel Hill Fire Department about pets & batteries: "🐶Colton is a good boy, but he counter-surfed while his humans (a CHFD family) were away and got hold of a device with a lithium ion battery. 🔋The battery in the video was charged and unplugged when finished. It wasn't under any recalls, but it wasn’t stored safely. Colton was able to get the battery, break its protective features by chewing on it, and ended up causing a fire. Thankfully, he wasn't injured, and other th

At 10:45 this morning, CHFD units were dispatched to the 1200 block of Kachina Drive for a trench collapse with a trapped victim. Upon arrival, crews found a male party buried to his shoulders in a 10 foot trench and a 2nd subject in the trench trying to dig him out. Crews assessed the buried victim who was alert and talking, and they removed the 2nd subject out of the trench to mitigate the possibility of a second victim. While focusing on keeping the victim calm, crews cordoned off the area ar