Fires

Two former Roanoke firefighters will be honored Saturday at the 15th annual Virginia Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service. David Palmer and Battallion Chief Bobbie Slayton, both of the Roanoke Fire-EMS, will be honored. The ceremony will be held at 2 p....

Firefighters in Danville spent around 3 hours at the scene of a structure fire early Sunday.  It happened along the 300 block of Chatelaine Ave. When crews arrived, they saw a lot of smoke and fire coming from a garage behind a house. Officials say...

A spokesperson with the Roanoke FIre Department say s the house has been completely distroyed.  Kirk Avenuew is closed while crews work to tear down the structure.  It is expected to re-open by 5 p.m. -------------------------- Roanoke firefighters...

Update: The home on Chatham Road in the Mountain Valley Community caught fire around 12-45 on Wednesday..    Flames were shooting through the roof when fire fighters from the Axton and Dyer Store Volunteer Fire Departments got there.   The couple who...

Buchanan Volunteer fire chief Billy Joe Carter was shocked when a power line overheated and fell on him at a mobile home park. In a hospital in the Intensive Care Unit, Chief Billy Joe Carter says he's thankful he's still alive. Tuesday night it was...

Fire investigators say kids are to blame for a brush fire that scorched 25 acres in Roanoke County. The fire on Poor Mountain was reported Friday afternoon.  More than 75 state and local firefighters worked for three days to contain the fire. The...

It's one of Roanoke's most dangerous and congested intersections. We're talking about the intersection of Riverland Road, Mount Pleasant Boulevard, and Bennington Street. 10,000 vehicles drive through that intersection everyday. It has long been a...

A Covington plant is back up and running again after a small fire in a paper machine Friday morning. Firefighters were called out to MeadWestVaco a little after 8 a.m. The fire started in a house crane power strip, and spread into the roof. The machine...

Firefighters continue to battle a fire in Alleghany County. It's two miles east of Falling Springs, on the upper third of Little Mountain on Mad Ann Ridge. The fire has burned 23 acres so far. It's inaccessible to bulldozers. ---------------------...

An electrical fire damaged a home in Danville late Monday afternoon. Danville fire crews were called to the home in the 400 block of Rhodenizer Street at about 4:00pm. No one was inside the house when the fire started. The fire was quickly put out, but...

A fire that broke out on Hanover Avenue on Monday has been ruled accidental. But investigators are still searching for a definite cause. A firefighter had to be treated for minor burns while putting the flames out. Also, one person had to be treated for...

Investigators have determined that a man who was found dead in a car Wednesday in Collinsville died of natural causes. 74-year-old Basil Wayne Bollings was found dead in his car. A short time later, his car caught on fire. Investigators say the car...