The Cedar Rapids Fire Department responded to a report of fire at Brucemore Mansion Thursday afternoon, but by the time firefighters arrived the small blaze had already been extinguished by renovation crews, according to a Facebook post from the Fire Department.
Fire and law enforcement personnel found a body near a house that exploded in rural Buckingham Monday morning, according to a news release from the Tama County Sheriff’s Office.
Units in a Cedar Rapids house that caught fire last week have been deemed a nuisance several times since 2014, city records show.
Seven people were taken to the hospital Friday morning after carbon monoxide was detected in an apartment building in Marion, according to a news release from the Marion Fire Department.
The Iowa City Fire Department responded to a backhoe crash, house fire and downed power line on the corner of Fairchild and and Linn streets on Wednesday, according to a news release from the department.
A Cedar Rapids woman who was killed in a garage fire Thursday has been identified as Mia Schmidt, 57, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.
A woman was killed Thursday morning in a garage fire in southwest Cedar Rapids, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.
Multiple people were injured in a fire at a Sun Tan City in Marion on Wednesday, according to the Marion Fire Department.
Residents temporarily evacuated from smoky 7th floor of downtown Cedar Rapids building.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will oversee further cleanup at a Marengo explosion site after state officials struggled to enforce deadlines for removing contaminated water and soil.
The EPA said the company broke federal law by not giving safety data sheets to first responders and not issuing an emergency notice after the explosion that injured nine employees — at least two seriously — and caused a fire that took Eastern Iowa firefighters 18 hours to extinguish.
A commercial building in Ely was destroyed in a fire Wednesday night, but no injuries were reported, according to a news release from the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.
A Tama County man suffered severe burns on one-third of his body in a Dec. 8 explosion at the C6-Zero plant, where he worked as a contractor, according to a lawsuit filed in Iowa County.
The North Liberty and Tiffin fire departments are working to expand recruitment and services using money from a federal grant program designed to help improve staffing for fire departments.
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