OTTER TAIL COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) – Fire destroys a house in rural Parkers Prairie Township in Otter Tail County. The Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office says deputies responded to the home just after 10:30 Sunday night. Three different fire departments helped get the fire out. No one was injured, but the house is believed to be a total loss. The…
OTTER TAIL CO., Minn. (KVRR) — A house is a total loss and two dogs are dead after a fire in Otter Tail County Saturday night. The sheriff’s office says fire crews were called to the house in rural Star Lake Township around 7:30. The homeowners had returned to find smoke and an orange glow coming from the house. Dent…
FAIRMOUNT, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — The Fairmount Fire Department received a report of a house on fire around 10:30 Saturday night in the 200 block of 2nd Street South. When the fire crew arrived, the house was fully engulfed. Fairmount Fire requested mutual aid from the Hankinson Fire Department. No one was hurt in the fire. The homeowner was home at…
CASS CO., N.D. (KVRR) — Fire crews from Kindred, Horace and Davenport respond to a detached garage fire in rural Kindred. The call came in around 11 this morning. The garage was fully engulfed in flames when crews arrived on scene. It was contained to the detached garage and didn’t spread. No one was injured. The cause of the fire…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Multiple pets die in a duplex fire in Grand Forks. Firefighters responded to a fire at 1118 1st Avenue North around 10:30 this morning. They found heavy smoke coming from the front of the two-story duplex. All of the people inside were able to get out in time. CPR was performed on a dog and…
GRAND FORKS — An inmate had to be taken to the hospital and fire investigators are trying to figure out what happened in a fire in the laundry room at the jail in Grand Forks overnight. It’s the second fire in the laundry room in less than a month. Firefighters responded to the fire just after 2 a.m. Tuesday in…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A GoFundMe fundraiser has been started for people forced from their homes after fire tore through a townhouse complex in West Fargo last month. Crews arrived to smoke and flames coming out of the building containing six townhomes just before 4 a.m. on November 22, the day before Thanksgiving. The GoFundMe says six families lost…
MANTADOR, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – Fire damaged a former bank building in Mantador, North Dakota, shortly before 4 p.m. Monday. Fire departments from several communities responded to the fire that appeared to have started in the basement of the brick building on Main Street that was built in the early 20th century. Firefighters had the fire out within about an hour…
RICHLAND COUNTY, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – The driver of a garbage truck on his route in Richland County had to call 911 Monday, shortly after 8 a.m. to report the truck’s containment area pouring out smoke. Aaron Peterson, drove into a parking lot at the North Dakota DOT facility on 180th Avenue SE. where the truck could be safely isolated until…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – A new fire station has been opened in West Fargo, ushering a new chapter for the department as they look to help the community out faster with this new location. Located 1201 10th Ave. E., this new place will service a wide area. “Quicker response, less damage, better outcomes.” said West Fargo Fire Chief Dan…
