FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – After a lot of planning and construction, the Fargo Fire Department is opening their new station in South Fargo. Station 8, which is located just off 64th Ave. S in Fargo, is a state of the art fire station in an area of the city where response times were high. A lot of effort was put…
FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – Fargo police are investigating after a bullet struck Fire Department Station 1, on NP Avenue in downtown Fargo. Fire Chief Steve Dirksen says a window and a small portion of a wall were struck by the bullet. The damage was discovered as staff arrived Thursday morning. Chief Dirksen says the area that was hit by the bullet…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — The Moorhead Fire Department recovered a body of a man at the Red River. An alert issued around 1 pm notified Fargo and Moorhead officals of an object in the water approxiametly eight to ten feet from the shore. Firefighters at the scene had pulled out a bag from the water. Moorhead Police are currently conducting…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A pet has died and people are displaced after a house fire in the 1500 block of 6th Street South in Fargo. Fire crews responded around 5 p.m. and were able to confine the fire damage to just one room of the house but there is smoke damage throughout the structure. All occupants were able to…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo Fire Department has suddenly and temporarily closed Fire Station 5 for reconstruction and renovation work. The work comes after staff at the station noticed shifting and cracks on the building five years ago. While they had been able to work and keep staff in, a recent engineering assessment determined the southern portion of the building…
FARGO (KFGO) – Fargo Fire says a charging e-bike battery caused a fire inside an apartment Tuesday afternoon. The fire was reported just after 2 at an apartment at 1781 35th Street South, just east of I-29. The building’s sprinkler system activated and put the fire out. Fire damage was limited, but the unit has smoke and water damage as…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A damaged e-bike battery that was on a charger and started on fire has caused $10,000 in damage to an apartment unit at 202 6th Avenue North, Fargo. Fire crews responded to this three story apartment building just after 9 a.m. They arrived to heavy smoke coming from the first floor unit and were able to…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) –Burning curtains in a basement bedroom are being blamed for a twin home fire in south Fargo Sunday afternoon. Multiple fire crews and police responded to the multi-family around 4:30 p.m. The house is located at 1738 50th Street South in Fargo, a few blocks west of Home Depot. Fargo Fire Battalion Chief Joe Mangin says the…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Multiple fire crews and police responded to a multi-family house around 4:30 this afternoon. The house is located at 1738 50th Street South in Fargo, a few blocks west of Home Depot. When KVRR arrived on scene around 6 p.m., fire crews were still busy going in and out of the home. You could see smoke…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A family member of missing 19-year-old Arthur Wiebe says the search is over after Wiebe’s body was found in the Red River late Thursday. Wiebe had been missing since he walked away from his family’s shop in the 4100 block of 34th Avenue South in Moorhead on Monday around 10 p.m. He did not have a…
