The man who was pulled from the fire and a firefighter who was injured fighting the blaze were taken to the hospital. Firefighters rescued and revived one dog who’d been in the house, and another dog died in the fire.
The industrial fire was reported at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, and plant personnel at the southwest Cedar Rapids facility were still working at 11 a.m. Wednesday to “mitigate and extinguish the fire using on-site equipment,” while staying in contact with the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.
Two children were taken to the hospital Monday morning after a fire in a North Liberty apartment building, according to a news release from the city.
The fire, in a log jam of dead trees that lodged against a railroad bridge, required the temporary closure of one lane of the Highway 100 bridge.
A North Liberty mobile home is a total loss after a fire early Monday morning, according to a news release from the North Liberty Fire Department.
Two people were hospitalized Tuesday morning after being rescued from a fire in a Cedar Rapids residence, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.
A passerby noticed smoke and flames coming from the 112-year-old southeast Cedar Rapids restaurant’s roof around 5:15 a.m., and called 911. It was Iowa’s oldest supper club, opening in 1912.
An explosion in a commercial building in North Liberty Monday night resulted in multiple people injured, including a firefighter that responded to the scene, according to a news release from the City of North Liberty.
Fire crews were called at 9:14 p.m. Saturday to a two-story house in the 2900 block of Center Point Road NE.
A fire in a semi trailer closed an I-380 exit ramp in Cedar Rapids Friday morning.
The Cedar Rapids Fire Department responded to another fire Monday morning at the former Diamond V Mills plant in northwest Cedar Rapids, the second fire at that location in less than a week.
A Cedar Rapids firefighter was injured Friday morning while responding to a fire at the former Diamond V Mills site, 436 G Ave. NW, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.
A fire in a machine shed in Marion over the weekend resulted in the loss of everything in the building, including two trucks, a bobcat and other large equipment owned by Monarch Research Project.
Iowa City firefighters found 13 dogs and two birds dead Monday after responding to a fire in an Iowa City home, according to a press release from the Iowa City Fire Department.
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