BISMARCK, N.D. – Police say they’ve made an arrest in connection with a fire at an apartment complex in Bismarck. Firefighters responded to a fire at the three-story apartment building about 5 a.m. Thursday. As tenants were being evacuated, the 33-year-old man who was later arrested was found on his balcony. As the fire was investigated, police say it was…
MINOT, N.D. – Officials say an explosion and fire has caused significant damage to a house in Minot, but that its occupants are safe. Firefighters were dispatched to a home in southwest Minot about 1:30 a.m. Monday. Fire engulfed the rear of the house with flames spreading toward adjacent structures. Crews began search and rescue operations on all three floors…
FRAZEE, Minn. (KVRR) – A body was found in a house destroyed by fire near Frazee, Minn. Becker County authorities were told about the burned out house on Monday morning and it wasn’t known if it was occupied at the time. The State Fire Marshal’s Office found the body of 79-year-old Delores Lubitz of Frazee during its investigation of the…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) – A restaurant, record and comic book store and music venue has $10,000 worth of damage from a fryer fire. A report of smoke coming from the roof was called in around 2:30 Monday at DogMahal DogHouse/Ojata Records at 305 North Washington Street. The Grand Forks Fire Department says crews quickly extinguished a fire coming from a…
UPDATE: A fire that broke out at Washington Square Mall in Detroit Lakes this afternoon has been contained. The Detroit Lakes Fire Department says the fire started at around 3:00 Friday afternoon in an apartment above Mattson’s Barber Shop. Detroit Lakes, Perham, Frazee, Audubon, Vergas and Callaway firefighters were able to contain the fire to the apartment around 5:30 p.m….
FARGO (KVRR) – A two-alarm fire forces some residents out of their home early Thursday morning in Fargo. Firefighters responded to an apartment building on the 100 block of 9th Street South just after midnight. They found flames along the roofline of the building that had spread into the wall of a second-story apartment. Some firefighters finished evacuations while others…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) – Crews have mostly knocked down a massive fire on Saturday that involved multiple buildings in St. Paul, Minnesota. Reports of the fire along Marshall Avenue near Snelling Avenue just off I-94 came in shortly before 6 p.m. About an hour and a half later, aerial video showed firefighters making progress on the flames, knocking the fire…
FARGO, N.D. ( KVRR) — A kitchen fire temporarily evacuates people staying at a Fargo hotel. Just before 10 this morning firefighters were dispatched to Mainstay Suites on 19th Avenue and 44th street South. Staff working at the extended stay hotel were able to evacuate everyone out the building, as well as put out the small kitchen fire. “They came…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – West Fargo Fire Chief Dan Fuller is presenting the growing needs and long term goals of the department to city commissioners. As the city of West Fargo grows, its fire department is faced with a multitude of challenges like increased call volumes, staffing shortages and longer response times. “In the last five years we’ve accomplished…
FARGO, N.D. — Fargo Fire Department remained on scene of a fire at a twin home for several hours. They were sent to the 52 hundred block of 50th Avenue South around 4:30 Sunday afternoon. They tell us the fire started in one of the rooms of the twin home but fire crews were quickly able to put it out….
