tagged with: fire
July 5, 2010
Mysterious porch fire on Broad Street
The porch of a house in the 2100 block of East Broad Street caught on fire just before 2AM last night. The house next door suffered minor damage as well; there were no injuries.
June 7, 2010
Fire on 21st Street displaces three people
Virginia Fire News has info on a small fire on 21st Street that displaced 3 people:
On June 3, at 0726 hours Richmond Fire was called to the 1800 block of North 21st Street for a reported house fire. Rescue 1 arrived on scene just ahead of Q-11 reporting a 2-story wood frame house with smoke showing on from the D side on Division 2 [...] No one was home at the time of the fire. The fire was brought under control at 0738 hours. The fire is under investigation at this time. The Red Cross is assisting the family of 3 with accommodations.
March 2, 2010
Fire on 22nd Street
A fire was reported at 415 North 22nd Street just before 6AM this morning. Everyone made it out ok.
February 4, 2010
Fire on Carrington Street
A house on Carrington Street caught on fire this morning:
Firefighters were summoned at 9:16 a.m. to the 2400 block of Carrington Street near North 24th Street and found smoke rising from a two-story house, said Richmond fire Lt. Shawn L. Jones. [...] Fire officials attributed the cause of the blaze to a cooking accident.
December 19, 2009
Fire on 33rd Street
The empty and for sale house at 516 North 33rd Street burned fairly thoroughly late last night. This morning there were still sounds of pieces of the house falling, and the interior from front to back appears to be destroyed. No word on the cause.
December 15, 2009
Help a family find a house
A reader writes in looking for your help:
Hi – I’m wondering if you could put up a post to put out feelers for a 4 bedroom house for rent in Church Hill. I’m looking for the family whose house was burned down on Q Street this week. We would need a month to month lease until their house is finished being rebuilt (appx 4-5 months). The family has lived in their home since the 1950′s and we’re trying to find something ASAP to get them out of a hotel. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated!!
December 11, 2009
Fire on Q Street
A house fire this afternoon at 3116 Q Street left the house in bad shape but “everyone got out and is ok“.
November 18, 2009
Apartment fire on Coalter Street
A dramatic early-morning apartment fire got things jumping today on Coalter Street:
At least 19 people suffered minor injuries in a Richmond apartment fire in the 1300 block of Coalter Street Wednesday. Fire officials arrived on scene just after 8:30 a.m. with heavy flames showing from a basement apartment building.
October 29, 2009
Fire on 26th Street
A reader reports a fire at 1211 North 26th Street:
Was on my way home at about 11:30 and noticed a huge smoke plume a block behind the M and 25th Street roundabout. A freestanding house on 26th, the 1200 block was in a full blaze. It was abandoned and boarded up. The neighbors were watching, but clearly unfazed.
Real Time Traffic Info is saying that there is a fire on 26th Street and that:
MALE NAME DAVID SAY HE SET THE FIRE…HE IS TRYING TO KILL HIM SELF SAND HUNG UP THE FIRE IS NEAR THE MOUNT OLIVETT
October 20, 2009
Richmond Firefighters Association launches blog to track fire company closures
Following September’s rumblings that fire stations are being understaffed, Richmond Firefighters Association Local 995 has launched a new blog that details the daily closures of fire companies (including Quint 1 (Church Hill) CLOSED for 24 hrs. on October 7 and October 10).
Since the beginning of the 2009 – 2010 fiscal year, the Richmond Fire Department budget has experienced cuts that directly impact the amount of fire protection available on a daily basis to the City of Richmond. This blog is to serve as a place where information can be found regarding where daily cuts are occurring.
September 21, 2009
Has the city’s firefighting capacity been cut?
An email from Church Hill Association President John Johnson describes an issue that has come up recently at the CHA: there is word going around that the city’s firefighting capacity has been reduced and the CHA has not been able to find out the truth of the situation… Can anyone speak to this?
September 4, 2009
All ok in apartment fire
THe RTD is reporting that there were no injuries in a Mosby apartment fire this morning:
The fire occurred about 10:40 a.m. in a second-floor unit at a two-story apartment building in the 1900 block of Redd Street, near the Accommodation Street intersection.
August 14, 2009
Fire on Venable Street
A boarded&vacant house on Venable Street just west of the Ocean Grocery caught fire at around 11PM last night. Judging from the path in the backyard, someone had been occupying or using the back of the house for some time.
August 13, 2009
Smell that?
An house gone feral in a small patch of woods just west of the train tracks in Shockoe Valley is burning dramatically this afternoon. Firefighters are having something of a difficult time just getting to the burning structure.