A fire damaged a restaurant in Branson on Wednesday night.
Firefighters arrived at Doc’s Hickory Roadhouse on State Highway 165 around 11:30 p.m. The fire activated the sprinkler heads before firefighters arrived.
Firefighters say nobody was injured in the fire. The Branson Fire Department received help from the Southern Stone and Western Taney County Fire Protection Districts, along with Branson Police and Taney County paramedics.
A straw bale fire damaged a grocery store in Forsyth. The Country Mart store temporarily closed.
Firefighters responded to the grocery store on Tuesday at 3:15 a.m. Investigators say the fire started in the straw bales outside the store. The fire spread into the store. The sprinkler system knocked down the fire. An employee inside the store called 911. Forsyth Fire Chief Nathan Bower says whether it’s your home or your store, you need to be careful about how you’re storing hay and straw.
“Watch where you put them things close to outlets, candles, extension cords,” said Bower. “And obviously bulk items like this they shoot really shouldn’t be stored next to whether it’s a store or whether your house, they should be stored away from it, because if they do accidentally catch on fire, at least they’re burning outside of that versus next to a structure.”
Frequent shoppers like Jovita Dublin worry they must travel farther for groceries.
“When we noticed that there had been a fire here, I couldn’t believe it,” said Dublin. “It’s hard. Like for us, you know, like my husband, he’s got problems, and he can’t drive that far. “
It took 22 firefighters from three departments to work the four-and-a-half-hour fire. The Missouri State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating.
Store management is working with the health department to reopen the store. The drive-thru pharmacy remains open.
Ten people have been displaced by a fire at a long-term care home in Gatineau overnight.
Gatineau fire crews responded to CHSLD Lionel-Émond just before 2 a.m. and confirmed a fire in a storage room on the fourth floor.
Twenty five people from the third and fourth floors were safely evacuated from the building and there are no injuries reported.
The fire was under control around 2:45 a.m. largely due to the automatic sprinkler system in the building.
Ten people were relocated to the Hull Hospital due to fire and water damage to their units.
Damage to the building is pegged around $170,000.
The fire was confined to a common area near the entrance to the mansion, according to the Winona Police Department.
The fire, which required off-duty firefighters to be called for assistance, resulted in minor fire, smoke and water damage to the building.
The fire did not result in any injuries, but the department reported one resident had to be assisted in evacuating the building by firefighters.
The residents of the mansion are being assisted by the Red Cross to find new housing.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
The mansion was sold earlier this year to the Kappa Chi Fraternity for $1.85 million, over double the estimated market value of the mansion, according to Winona County’s commercial sale records.
Kappa Chi chapter president Creighton Butler said that the fraternity has not moved into the mansion yet and the residents had leases from before the purchase of the property.
He said the sprinkler system activated and helped contain the fire to the common space. The building’s fire alarm system automatically reported the blaze to the Winona Fire Department.
Butler said there was “a lot to be figured out still” for the fraternity regarding its plans to move into the mansion.
The mansion, built in 1857 by one of Winona’s founders, Henry Huff, has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976.
Chief Ken Fickett says his firefighters were called to Upton Hastings Hall at roughly 2:07 a.m., as students were being evacuated from the four-story dormitory.
The chief says the fire was determined to have started in a closet on the third floor, but was thankfully contained by the floor’s sprinkler system.
This latest incident comes a week after a fire on Monday, Sept. 25, in which a lithium battery from a vape pen was determined to have caused a fire in a trash can on the same floor of Upton Hastings Hall. No injuries were reported in either fire.
In that incident, 23 students were temporarily relocated.
In the latest incident, University of Southern Maine officials say 47 students from two floors are being temporarily relocated due to the damage from the fire sprinkler system, which activated immediately.
This week, there was no damage reported from the fire itself, though the cause is still being investigated.
“Details are still emerging,” wrote USM’s public affairs officer Dan Hartill. “For now, our focus is on the wellbeing of our students.”
A business has some damage after an overnight fire in Lexington.
Flames broke out after 11 p.m. at the Aramark building on Versailles Road.
Crews arrived quickly and crawled under the smoke to put out the flames.
District Fire Chief Brian Dawson says the fire started in some clothing bins inside the building.
“The sprinkler heads in the building kept the fire in check, but it didn’t completely put the fire out,” Dawson said. “We had about 10 units responding to the fire and the Jonas Brothers’ concert slowed one of them down, but they were still on scene within five minutes of the initial fire.”
Dawson says the fire damaged some items in the building, but the structure is sound and no one was hurt.
One person was in the building when the fire started.
Investigators are still determining the origin and cause.
Seniors living in an Atlanta high-rise building got a scare after a fire broke out overnight.
The fire happened at the Friendship Towers on Northside Drive around midnight.
Firefighters tell FOX 5 that senior residents had to be evacuated after someone set fire to trash on the 13th floor of the building.
Thankfully, the building’s sprinkler system was able to keep the flames under control and no one was injured.
Arson investigators are now working to find out who started the blaze.
If you have any information about the fire, call the Atlanta Police Department.
A Manchester restaurant will be closed for repairs after a fire broke out early Saturday morning.
Firefighters responded to La Plazita de Mofongo, located at 425 Broad St., about 12:18 a.m Saturday and found fire and smoke throughout the restaurant, according to the Manchester Fire Department.
Firefighters found that a sprinkler system had partially extinguished a blaze in the kitchen. The rest of the fire was quickly brought under control and no injuries were reported, the fire department said.
The restaurant, billed as “a little part of Puerto Rico located in the heart of Manchester” on its social media pages, will be closed until repairs can be made.
“Dear customers, I regret to inform you that we will be closed at the moment for reasons beyond our control,” the restaurant team said in a statement on their Facebook page.
“Thank you for your support and we will work hard to open and provide you with the service and quality you deserve,” the statement said.
The fire marshal’s office was investigating the fire.
Firefighters responded to the Masonic Lodge at 551 W. 21st Street on a fire alarm activation at 2:11 a.m.
When CFD personnel arrived on scene, they found a fire on the left front exterior of the building which was quickly extinguished. The front doors were also open and as crews made entry, they found another small fire inside the structure which had activated the sprinkler system. The sprinklers effectively extinguished the interior fire.
Along with fire and water damage, there was also damage to the building from vandalism.
There is an active and ongoing investigation into what happened at this location.
