Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids Fire Department

The Joint Communications Agency dispatched every available police officer and firefighter, and police described the incident as Cedar Rapids’ largest-ever high-rise fire.

Some residents of Geneva Tower moved back into their apartments Thursday after being displaced for more than a week because of a fire in the downtown Cedar Rapids apartment building.

Cedar Rapids fire investigators have determined a fire at Geneva Towers last week was started when smoking materials were left unattended too close to combustible materials.

Volunteers met at Clean Laundry Friday afternoon to wash laundry for displaced Geneva Tower residents.

Residents of Geneva Tower, an apartment building that houses seniors and adults with disabilities in southeast Cedar Rapids, eager to return home after being displaced by a fire early Sunday morning.

A passerby had called in the emergency as well as alerted the man that his home was on fire.

At 1:40 a.m., emergency responders were dispatched to the southbound lanes of I-380 near the Seventh Street NE exit, following reports of a vehicle driving the wrong direction on the interstate.

The neon-lit car went up in smoke on Monday night

Police said the 44-year-old man and his teenage son went into the Cedar River on July 16 to cool off. The man then dipped under the water and never resurfaced.

Fire crews used ground ladders and fire escapes to help several people escape from an apartment building fire in the Wellington Heights neighborhood in southeast Cedar Rapids.

Nola L. Wardell, 51, of Calumet City, Ill., faces a charge of first-degree arson after authorities say she set a front porch ablaze at a residence in southwest Cedar Rapids in April.

CEDAR RAPIDS — Firefighters rescued two children and four dogs Friday morning from a house fire in southwest Cedar Rapids. …

The shed fire is the 11th fire in Cedar Rapids to be attributed to the illegal discharge of fireworks within city limits since July 2, the fire department said.

A local restaurant in southwest Cedar Rapids suffered moderate damage Friday when a fire erupted in a heating and air conditioning unit on the roof.

Sawyer Todd Henry, 27, of Cedar Rapids, faces charges of arson and public intoxication.