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.
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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.
The Marion Fire Department has partnered with a Virginia-based nonprofit, the Center for Public Safety Excellence, to craft an updated strategic plan for how the department can best use its resources to serve the community.
The Cedar Rapids Fire Department responded Thursday night to an explosion on top of corn processing and storage elevators at the Cedar Rapids ADM plant on 60th Ave. SW. As of 10 a.m. Friday, they were still on the scene, actively engaged with a smoldering grain fire in one or more silos.
A December explosion and fire that injured a dozen people and caused a small-scale evacuation in Marengo was caused when an “unknown mechanical failure” ignited flammable air vapor, the State Fire Marshal reported.
Bill Erb worked nearly every first responder job there is before becoming the Tiffin fire marshal and code enforcement officer — the department’s first full-time employee position — in early January.
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