Fires

Firefighters who responded to a house fire early Saturday in the eastern Iowa city of Riverside found the bodies of two people inside.

Investigators said Ryan Thieman, 49, of Marble Rock lost control at about 4:25 a.m. Dec. 21 while driving on southbound I-380 near mile marker 51.

Hy-Vee management called about 8 p.m. to report a fire by their loading dock at the 1720 Waterfront Drive store.

Police are still searching for the driver but found two juveniles who jumped from the vehicle and ran after the crash.

The small north-central Iowa town of Thor took a hit last week when two buildings along its main street were gutted by fire.

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

David Costello, 26, is accused of igniting a propane torch head near a natural gas supply line he had opened. A Monticello police officer and a deputy were “consumed in a flash fire” from the resulting explosion.

A jury found Steven Vogel, 32, of Grinnell, guilty of first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse in the death of Michael Williams, 44, whose body was found burning in a rural Jasper County ditch on Sept. 16, 2020.

During July and August, Iowa DNR officials noticed an uptick in the number of illegal fires being set in parking lots, fields, and woodlands located within the 14,000-acre Hawkeye Wildlife Area.

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

Two Jones County deputies and three Anamosa police officers are now on paid administrative leave.

Everyone in the home in the home in the 2100 block of 13th Street in Coralville safely escaped a 4 a.m. fire. They were alerted to the fire by smoke detectors.