PETERSBURG, Va. WTVR — Fire crews from Petersburg, Colonial Heights, and Prince George all responded to a large structure fire in Petersburg shortly before 8:30 p.m. The fire took place in the 3000 block of Halifax Road at the Industrial Galvanizers America steel plant. Sources say the fire started at the back of the building […]

  HAVANA TOWNSHIP — A load of grain was lost after a fire started in a grain dryer on Tuesday morning, prompting a response from the Owatonna Fire Department. The fire was called in just before 9:15 a.m. Tuesday on the 8200 block of 18th Street Southeast, to the east of Havana Township. OFD Commander […]

FIRE crews worked tirelessly for more than 28 hours to put out a blaze at a factory in Chipping Norton. Emergency services were called to the tyre and plastics factory on Governor Macquarie Drive about 3.35am on Sunday. The last remnants of the fire were put out this morning at 8am. No one was in […]

A blaze that broke out at a Lincolnton plant Sunday morning demolished a trailer and destroyed several thousands of dollars in railroad equipment, plant officials said. Lincolnton Fire Department responded just before 7 a.m. to Omni Products, Inc., located at 1591 North Aspen Street, Chief Mitch Burgin said. North 321 Fire Department provided mutual aid. […]

BRANCHBURG —€” A fire at a chemical facility caused a precautionary evacuation of the building but was quickly extinguished, according to a company executive. At about 3:50 p.m. on Monday, a fire ignited on the roof of a warehouse at the Voltaix electronic chemicals facility at 197 Meister Avenue, according to Mark A. Wilkinson, executive […]

  About 100 firefighters have brought a big factory fire in Sydney’s south-west under control. The blaze broke out around 3:30am (AEDT) at the complex on Alfred Road at Chipping Norton. The factory was a recycling plant for tyres and plastic. Superintendent Ian Krimmer from Fire and Rescue says crews managed to save the surrounding […]

FLOWOOD, Miss. — No injuries have been reported in an early Friday fire at the Sanderson Farms poultry plant in Flowood. Flowood Fire Department Lt. Brian Grantham says about 16 employees were inside the building at the time, though no one was in the boiler room where the fire started. The room is used for […]

ALBION — A major structure fire gutted a West Avenue warehouse on Thursday, engaging area fire crews in a defensive but successful battle and forcing nearby residents to stay indoors by direct order. The fire occurred shortly before 4 p.m. at the Orleans Pallet Company, 227 West Ave., a business that rebuilds, stores and ships […]

AURORA, Mo. – A biomass plant that makes pellets for wood-burning stoves from miscanthus vegetation is closed today after a Sunday fire that caused about $150,000 damage to the production and storage area of the company. Aurora Fire Chief Robert Ward said the fire at MFA Biomass was reported to his department at noon Sunday […]