Fires

A Facebook post from the barbershop states that a couple of windows were broken and someone had thrown Molotov cocktails into the building.

A fire that killed a 78-year-old man Tuesday in Cedar Rapids was started by accident, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.

One person has died after being removed from a burning house in southwest Cedar Rapids.

Two people were injured Tuesday morning in a fire in southwest Cedar Rapids, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.

A woman was killed Tuesday in a house fire in rural Cedar County, according to a news release from the Cedar County Sheriff’s Office.

One person was killed in a fire at a town house in Tiffin Sunday morning, according to a news release from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office.

A neighbor stepped outside to let the dogs out early Sunday and saw flames coming from the nearby home.

Four birds — two red-tailed hawks, one Harris’ hawk, and one gyrfalcon — were killed in a fire Friday morning at the Iowa Raptor Project, a raptor conservation center in Solon, which is jointly sponsored by the University of Iowa and and Kirkwood Community College.

One person was injured in a fire that broke out in an apartment in Cedar Rapids Tuesday morning, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.

Several thefts have been reported at an apartment building in northeast Cedar Rapids where a fire broke out last month, killing one person.

A 123-year-old former elementary school in the town of Rockford was destroyed by fire last week. To fight the fire, water was pulled from the Shell Rock River and shuttled to the scene.

Cedar Rapids firefighters responded to a kitchen fire at a Long John Silver’s in southwest Cedar Rapids Tuesday morning, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.