Share Story from News Channel 3 NEWPORT NEWS – Eight people were injured in an explosion at a Newport News middle school just before 7 a.m. Sunday, police officials said. The workers were working at the rear of the Flora D. Crittenden Middle School on Jefferson Avenue, with the roof being fixed after recent storms, said Newport News [...]... Read More »
Share North Mountain Volunteer Fire and Rescue Apparatus Profile by Mike Sanders The North Mountain Volunteer fire and Rescue Squad is Station 19 in Frederick County, Virginia in an area called Mountain Falls. Organized in 1973, Station 19 is located in western Frederick County at the base of the Great North Mountain. A local farmer donated [...]... Read More »
Share Lost Hikers Located After Six Hour Search Hikers planned to camp out until one sprained her ankle November 29, 2009 (ROANOKE COUNTY) — Roanoke County Fire & Rescue Department was dispatched to the Dragons Tooth Trail about 8 p.m. yesterday to locate a lost hiker with an injured ankle. A young man and woman set out yesterday morning [...]... Read More »
Share VAFireNews.com Now Advertising Apparatus on USAFireTrucks.com Reminder that the free advertising ends on November 30th. Be sure to take advantage of the special. The webteam (me)here at VAFireNews.com has decided to move all of our apparatus advertising to USAFireTrucks.com. The website is a brand new site created by Jeff Harkey (FireNews.net), Grant Mishoe (SCFireWire.com), and myself. We [...]... Read More »
Share BEDFORD — Charged with members of his family in a volunteer fire department embezzlement scandal, Thaxton resident Cory Mitchell Shifflett threw himself on the mercy of the court Tuesday. “He wants to take responsibility and make things right,” Bedford County Commonwealth's Attorney Randy Krantz said after a Circuit Court hearing in which Shifflett pleaded guilty to [...]... Read More »
Share By Benjamin Weathers dailynews-record.com Shortly before 4 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon, the alarm sounds. Sitting on a pole above the firehouse parking lot, it begins almost as a grumble, giving way to a pitch so high that it can be heard throughout every corner of town. Within moments, volunteers are careening into the fire department parking lot, [...]... Read More »
Share Anderson Woolfolk watched as several crews of Louisa County firefighters battled to save his house on Zachary Tyler Highway on Monday morning. “It happens to the best of us,” he said while standing outside in the pouring rain. “It is what it is.” Career staff and volunteers from the Louisa, Mineral, Bumpass, Locust Creek, Trevilians and Spotsylvania [...]... Read More »
Share Two people are being sought who may have information about a fire that destroyed a storage building at Lynchburg College last week. Fire Marshal Greg Wormser said the two men are not suspects but were in the area when the fire broke out and might have information that can help investigators piece together what happened. The cause [...]... Read More »
Share The buildings may be older or newer, may be locally owned or their owners may be out-of-state. They may be structurally unsound or just lacking water, heat or electricity hookups. They may be residential or commercial, but Lynchburg’s condemned buildings have one thing in common other than a bright green placard at the door: firefighters will [...]... Read More »
Share BRISTOL, Va. – Improperly stored flammable liquids were blamed Saturday for a fire in a storage room at Logan’s Restaurant on Linden Drive, fire officials said in a written statement. The restaurants suffered about $25,000 in damage, Bristol Virginia Fire Chief J. C. Bolling said in the statement. There were no injuries to the patrons, restaurant employees or [...]... Read More »
