Fires

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.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested over the weekend on a first-degree arson charge after police say he lit his apartment on fire.

A lightning strike started a fire in a Cedar Rapids home Tuesday morning, displacing a family, according to the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.

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.