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Buchanan Volunteer Fire chief suffers electric shock during mobile home fire
Anchor/ReporterBuchanan 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...Tags: Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Fires, Disasters and Accidents, Hospitals and Clinics
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Five people escape Roanoke house fire
Five people escaped an early-morning house fire Wednesday in Roanoke.
The fire broke out at 1221 Staunton Ave. around 7 a.m.
The five people were inside the home when the fire started but got out safely.
The fire started in a second-floor bedroom and...Tags: Fires, Disasters and Accidents, Charity, American Red Cross
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UPDATED: Family says 3-year-old may have started Montvale fire with cigarette lighter
News 7 ReporterUPDATED 10:30 a.m. Friday: New information about a fire that injured six people in Bedford on Wednesday. The fire heavily damaged a mobile home on Berrysmans Road in Montvale. Fire investigators are labeling the fire as undetermined. The family says a...Tags: Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Disasters and Accidents, Hospitals and Clinics, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia)
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UPDATED: Fire at Brosville Fire Department caused an estimated $1M in damage
UPDATED 11:10 a.m. Friday:
Investigators in Pittsylvania County are searching for the cause of a fire that hit too close to home for firefighters.
It happened Thursday night at the Brosville Community Volunteer Fire Department. That's west of Danville....Tags: Transportation Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Fires, Disasters and Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents
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Just days after fire at its station, Brosville Fire Department gets called into action
Just days after a fire at its own fire station, the Brosville Fire Department was called into duty early Tuesday morning.
The department responded to a fire a fire at 1237 Cascade Road in Pittsylvania County.
When they got to the scene heavy smoke was...Tags: Fires, Disasters and Accidents, Pittsylvania County
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Fire damages Danville home
Firefighters were called out to an afternoon kitchen fire at one Danville home.
It happened around 2:30 p.m. along the 200 block of Fagan Street. When crews got to the scene, they found heavy smoke coming from the home. They stayed there for nearly two...Tags: Fires, Disasters and Accidents
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Two people escape Danville fire
Two people inside a Danville home that caught fire Tuesday morning were able to get out after a passerby let them know smoke was coming from their home.
The fire broke out around 8 a.m. at 112 Grace Street.
Investigators say discarded smoking...Tags: Health, Injuries and Wounds, Hospitals and Clinics, Fires, Disasters and Accidents
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Man escapes Roanoke house fire
UPDATED 4:50 p.m.:
A man in Roanoke had to kick out a window this morning to get out of his burning home.
Understandably, Michael Aldhizer was a bit shaken up.
He lives on Brighton Road in the Southwest part of the city.
Adhizer was asleep when the...Tags: Disasters and Accidents
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UPDATE: Rockbridge County home destroyed in fire
UPDATED 4:30 p.m.: The home is a total loss.
A woman and her daughter were living in the home, but neither were home at the time when the fire started.
About a dozen mobile homes are without water because a well was damaged in the fire.
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October Storm Hits Connecticut
Nov 8 Some 18,000 Connecticut Light and Power customers were still without power midday Tuesday, most in the Simsbury area. About one-third of Simsbury was without electricity, as was a quarter of Avon and Farmington, and many in Granby, Canton,...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Canton (Hartford, Connecticut), Hypothermia, Joe Furey, Federal Aviation Administration
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Conn. Home Invasion Killer's Elaborate Oyster Suicide Plan
Alaine Griffin, Hartford CourantHARTFORD, CT -- While Steven Hayes sat on Connecticut's death row late in 2011, the trial of his accomplice in the Cheshire home invasion killings was underway in a New Haven courtroom. Joshua Komisarjevsky's lawyers were rolling out a no-holds-barred,...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Joshua Komisarjevsky, Prague (Czech Republic), Cheshire, Michaela Petit
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January 10: Author - Bill Cosgrove, Chicagos Forgotten Tragedy
WGN NewsBill Cosgrove To purchase a copy of the book: Chicago's Forgotten Tragedy William Cosgrove was born in Chicago and was raised on the south side of the city as one of 10 children of a Chicago firefighter. He wore his fathers badge for more than 28...Tags: WGN, Robert De Niro, Disasters and Accidents, Chicago Fire Department
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