Firefighters battled early Thursday to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their homes.
Residents of a manufactured home in North Liberty were awakened by neighbors early Christmas morning when fire was seen coming from the home’s roof.
A fire broke out at the Ingredion facility in southwest Cedar Rapids Wednesday morning, leaving one plant worker with minor injuries, according to a Facebook post from the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.
A North Liberty woman was arrested last week after police say she left her 3-year-old child and 5-year-old child home alone and they accidentally started a fire.
The Cedar Rapids Fire Department responded to a fire Friday morning at the Cherry Building, 329 10th Ave. SE, which houses multiple businesses near Newbo City market.
A fire at the Ingredion facility in southwest Cedar Rapids was still burning Wednesday afternoon, after first being reported Tuesday afternoon.
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.
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