Berkeley firefighters rescued an elderly woman from a burning house Friday afternoon after a fire broke out in one of its bedrooms, authorities report.

Firefighters had to take the woman out through her bedroom window because flames had reached her interior doorway when they got inside, said Interim Deputy Fire Chief Keith May. The woman declined medical care at the scene.

May said the fire displaced two people in the single-story home, and that the American Red Cross had responded to help them secure shelter.

The Berkeley Fire Department was dispatched to the fire, in the 1900 block of Stuart Street (near Martin Luther King Jr. Way), at 2:52 p.m. The first crew got to the scene at 2:54 p.m. and saw black smoke coming from the residence.

“Within a moment or so, one of the residents had fled out of the house saying someone was still inside,” May said.

Some 80 years ago, a group of concerned citizens banded together to form a coalition whose sole purpose was to protect their little town of Cherry Hills Village from encroaching commercialization.

The area’s pastoral beauty with wide-open fields sprinkled with patches of cottonwoods and placid bodies of water had attracted the attention of Denver residents looking to escape the city—it also drew the attention of developers looking to add businesses and industrial plants. Thus, the Cherry Hills Improvement Association was born and thanks to their efforts, Cherry Hills Village remains commercial-free to this day.

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CALLAHAN, Fla. – A Callahan couple was shocked to find out that their property was listed on Zillow without their knowledge when a realtor came to their residence and started pictures.

Susan and Kris Jones said a person posed as a realtor posted the property and refused to take it down unless they paid him.

The couple recently moved out to a home on almost 3 acres in Callahan.

“We turned 50 this year. This was our dream property,” Kris Jones said.

Everything was going well until they were put in the middle of a scam.

Jonathan Daugherty, a local realtor, said he sees incidents like this all the time. He said it happened to his neighbor.

“They have a 1.2 million lot. We look on Zillow one day, and they had it for sale for 285,000,” Daugherty said.

He said he’s had 10-11 fraud cases in the past 10

DETROIT – A vacant home has become a problem property for the residents on Detroit’s east side.

One man says he’s been calling the city and officials about this problem property, and Wednesday night, Local 4 is helping him get answers.

The abandoned home sits in a neighborhood right across from the Stellantis Mack Assembly Plant near St. Jean and East Warren Avenue on the city’s east side.

64-year-old Kenneth Holloway is sick and tired of the condition of the home next door on Beniteau Street.

“This place right here, man, is terrible,” said Holloway. “We have to look at this and deal with this every day. I can’t go in the backyard. You hear animals and things rubbing back there. It’s a lot of garbage and stuff that was left behind. No one is doing nothing.”

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Neighbors moved out of the home months ago, and ever since