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A two-story Waco home collapsed after fire engulfed it around 3 p.m. Wednesday in the 500 block of 11 St. Fire officials were quick to respond to the incident, neighbors to the home said.

A car caught fire sometime before 8 a.m. Wednesday morning on the third floor of a parking garage near the Baylor Social Work Building on Washington Ave. A passerby noticed some steam coming from a Buick Regal as the woman left her car to go to the offices where she worked on the third floor. Someone called the Waco Fire Department at 8:07 a.m. and the firefighters arrived at the scene 57 seconds after the call.

As part of Baylor’s annual Oso Safe Campus Safety and Awareness Day, students will have the chance to enjoy a Dr Pepper float, and then watch as a dorm room is set on fire.

The Waco Fire Department will place at 4:15 p.m. Today in a mock dorm room in front of the Bill Daniel Student Center on Fifth Street and,., intentionally set it on fire as part of this year’s fire safety lesson.

The entire Campus Safety and Awareness Day event will begin at 3 p.m. in the Barfield Drawing room. This “live burn” is the third one in a row on Baylor’s campus which started in the fall of 2011.

The risk management department stands ready to protect students by educating them about campus safety this Thursday in an all-day event that will include a number of presentations. The risk management department is hosting “OsoSafe Campus Safety Awareness Day” to increase students’ knowledge of safety in a variety of different areas.

Residents at Collins Residence Hall were prompted to evacuate the building Friday around 1 p.m. after a dryer motor in the sixth-floor laundry room caught fire.

Members of Baylor Medical Service Organization were treated with a visit from a local life flight helicopter crew and the Waco Fire Department on Wednesday in the Ferrell Center parking lot.

A Baylor student who lived at The Outpost apartments is the subject of an ongoing investigation of what appears to be the construction of a bomb at the student’s apartment on Oct. 16.