Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids Fire Department

Cedar Rapids firefighters spent 25 hours last weekend working to control a massive blaze of large cardboard bales at a disposal and recycling business on the city’s southwest side.

The Cedar Rapids Fire Department responded to a fire Saturday night at the Cedar Rapids Ingredion plant, according to a press release from the fire department.

Two people were treated on scene at the fire in southwest Cedar Rapids.

A missing 38-year-old Cedar Rapids man was found dead in or near the edge of the Cedar River on Wednesday night, police said. His family reported him missing on Saturday. Police said his death is under investigation but isn’t considered suspicious.

First responding police officers were able to find a ladder and pull a person from the porch roof of a burning home in Cedar Rapids Thursday night.

The goal of the drill is to make sure that firefighters are prepared to face what could be a highly dangerous situation.

Three people were injured Tuesday night in a fire at an apartment building in the 400 block of Jacolyn Drive SW, Cedar Rapids, according to a press release from the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.

The Cedar Rapids Fire Department is working to finish suppressing a tree debris and brush pile fire that has been burning since Tuesday morning at Beverly Gardens Park in southeast Cedar Rapids.

The Cedar Rapids Fire Department and Linn county Regional Hazmat Team responded to a petroleum spill in an inlet of the Cedar Lake Tuesday afternoon, according to a Facebook post from the fire department.

Fireworks vendors and law enforcement alike are gearing up in preparation for Independence Day celebrations after new legislation was passed this year prohibiting Iowa cities from banning fireworks on July 3 and 4 and Dec. 31.

Staff from Cedar Rapids’ water treatment plant and the hazardous materials team at the Cedar Rapids Fire Department worked together Friday morning to run through a drill to test the safety procedures both departments have in place for an emergency hazmat scenario.

The Cedar Rapids Fire Department was called to the Archer Daniels Midland Corn Processing plant, at 1350 Waconia Ave SW, Thursday after two people were injured in an “industrial incident,” according to the fire department.

No one was injured Wednesday morning when a car’s engine caught fire in Cedar Rapids.

Members of the Cedar Rapids Police and Fire departments pulled a man to safety from the Third Avenue Bridge Friday. They had been speaking with the despondent man before he moved to a position where he was hanging from a ledge on the bridge.

The water rescue team attempted to pull a dog from the Cedar River Friday, but when CRFD members got close, the dog showed his teeth and swam to the opposite shore. Eventually, he was reunited with his owner.