Share By WAYNE QUESENBERRY/Staff Flames were shooting a hundred feet into the air when Ray Richardson Jr. arrived at Fairview Road around 2:16 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 2, 1999. Maneuvering the Wytheville Fire Department pumper truck through the snow to the natural gas substation, which had just exploded, he braced against the freezing cold for a [...]... Read More »

Share MCKENNEY – A family lost nearly everything but each other after taking the time to ensure their neighbors escaped the flames of a motel fire yesterday. James Earl Gay and Rachael D. Curtis went door to door after smelling smoke and spotting flames only doors down at the Economy Inn on Boydton Plank Road. [...]... Read More »

Share MATHEWS – A circuit court judge stunned a crowded courtroom Monday and ordered Paul Reardon jailed after the former treasurer for the Mathews County Volunteer Fire Department admitted he embezzled more than $200,000 from the organization. Judge R. Bruce Long said it would “send the wrong message” to let Reardon go home before his [...]... Read More »

Share July 19, 2010 (ROANOKE COUNTY) — Roanoke County Fire & Rescue Department was dispatched to the 4800 block of Goodman Road at 10:10 last night for a reported structure fire. When the first crews arrived, they found heavy flames coming from an early 1900s single-story house. Fire crews initially entered the structure searching for [...]... Read More »

Share This event is being held at the Richmond Diamond. Home of the Flying Squirrels. The deadline for the tickets is the 26th.  They would like some firefighters in uniform for a parade of hero’s around the field. Home Town Hero – click for more information... Read More »

Share Fire rips through Petersburg warehouse – NBC12 News, Weather Sports, Traffic, and Programming Guide for Richmond, VA | By Sunni Blevins – bio | email PETERSBURG, VA (WWBT)–NBC 12 continues to follow breaking news out of Petersburg where crews are still on the scene of a serious fire at the old Brown and Williamson [...]... Read More »

Share CHESTERFIELD, VA (WWBT) – In less than two weeks a heated statewide debate will come to a head: will over-head sprinklers be required in all new home construction? We first told you about the sprinkler debate earlier this year when it was up for discussion at the Virginia Board of Housing a Community Development. [...]... Read More »

Share When Upper Middlesex Volunteer Fire Department chief George Longest heard a call for help over his monitor at 9:52 p.m. on Monday, July 5, he had no idea then he would be involved in a search-and-rescue mission involving one of the worst boating accidents in history on the Rappahannock River. A 25-year-old Glen Allen [...]... Read More »

Share Three members of Virginia Task Force 1 (VATF-1) under the direction of the U.S. Agency for International Development, (USAID) deployed to Cap Haitien, Haiti, to train 25 first responders for local disaster response, July 12, 2010. They anticipate to return Monday, July 19, 2010. The training will build the skills needed to locate and [...]... Read More »

Share SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. (WUSA) — It was a night of unwanted sexual taunting and touching in the place where she volunteers. The Station 1 firehouse with the Spotsylvania Fire and Rescue Department. “If you don't get hold of it and follow it up with criminal charges and prosecution it's just going to run rampant,” says [...]... Read More »

Share MONETA — First responders in Moneta didn’t have to travel far to respond to an emergency. That’s because a car crashed through the rear of the Moneta Rescue Squad building Monday afternoon. The driver, whose name has not been released, came to a stop in the bathroom. Continue reading… Car crashes into Moneta Rescue [...]... Read More »

Share A Chancellor Volunteer Fire and Rescue member was charged today with a misdemeanor sexual battery. John Brandrup, 62, was arrested after Deputy M. Tillman interviewed a female Chancellor volunteer EMS provider, who inquired about what she needed to do to obtain a warrant against Brandrup. Tillman took her report and then obtained the misdemeanor [...]... Read More »

Share July 6, 2010 (ROANOKE COUNTY) — Due to the lack of rainfall and severe dry conditions, Roanoke County is banning all campfires and reminding residents of the region’s burning ban established by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality(VDEQ) on all open burning. Several years ago, the VDEQ established the Western Virginia Emissions Control Area, [...]... Read More »

Share A Suffolk boy will spend more time in a detention home for the arson of three homes on Franklin Street in June 2009, and he has been ordered to pay nearly $1 million in restitution. Kelly Golden Jr., 16, received his sentence in court Wednesday. Judge Carl Eason sentenced Golden to four years in [...]... Read More »

Share RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) – A train carrying hazardous materials derailed overnight in Richmond. The rail company, CSX is handling this investigation as crews try to figure out what caused a couple of train cars to jump the tracks. Continue reading… Train derails overnight in Richmond – NBC12 News, Weather Sports, Traffic, and Programming Guide [...]... Read More »