A Broadway Fire Department pumper fire truck was heavily damaged when a private bridge near the entrance to the Vulcan Materials quarry off N.C. 115 partly collapsed from its weight about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. None of the five firefighters on the truck were injured when the upstream side of the bridge over Hunting Creek slowly...Read More
CANTON ‒ Firefighters had to remove the windshield of an ambulance owned by a Zanesville company to extract the driver after the vehicle overturned Wednesday morning on Interstate 77 following a collision with a car. Division Chief Steven Henderson said the fire department was called at 7:25 a.m. about the collision in the northbound lanes...Read More
A police officer was struck by an unoccupied fire truck in Newtown on Wednesday afternoon while police officers and firefighters were responding to a call to check on a resident at a home that has since been condemned, according to police. Police officers responded to a home on Parmalee Hill Road at 1 p.m. to...Read More
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — A family of four, including two young children, died when a kitchen fire ignited early Wednesday and spread quickly, engulfing their Independence apartment building, said Independence Fire Chief Jimmy Walker. The flames, which erupted before 6 a.m., destroyed one building at the Indy Ridge Apartments in the 19000 block of East 37th Terrace, north of...Read More
