A fire last night destroyed a Highland Park house on the 3600 block of Carolina Avenue, reports the Times-Dispatch. One person was taken to the hospital, and four were displaced. Read the full article for the details, and be extra careful with your candles, folks.
Last week’s deadly fire on Garland Avenue has been ruled a homicide.
Updates: The Richmond Police Department has made an arrest in a house fire early yesterday. Michelle Yvette Hampton, 34, of Richmond is charged with threatening to burn and arson. Additional charges against Hampton are pending upon review of the case by Richmond Police and the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office.
About 7:30pm tonight I saw this on twitter: Units are working a house fire in the 5000 blk of W SEMINARY AVE.less than a minute ago via txtRichmond Fire DeptRFDVA By the time I got there to take some pictures the fire department had things under control and was packing up. It looked like lots [...]
Early this evening the Richmond Fire Department was reporting a fire on Woodcliff Avenue: Units are working a 2nd alarm fire in the 2900 blk of Woodcliff Ave.less than a minute ago via txtRichmond Fire DeptRFDVA
From the RTD: A 67-year-old Richmond man died in a morning house fire in North Richmond yesterday, becoming the city’s first fire fatality of the year. Matthew Benjamin was dead when firefighters found him in the second floor of a two-story wood-frame home on Rose Avenue, according to Richmond Fire Department Lt. Shawn L. Jones. [...]
RTD and NBC12 both have this story about three police officers who suffered smoke inhalation while saving a elderly woman from a burning building at 1004 Edgehill Road. The woman, pulled from the second story of a house on fire in the 1000 block of Edgehill Road, was in serious but stable condition this morning [...]
Waller McCracken, co-owner of this established Lakeside eatery says the restaurant will re-open after a recent kitchen fire. “We are going to add a brand new kitchen and handicapped bathrooms”, he said gesturing to the parking lot to the right of the building. “We’re working with the insurance company – it all hinges on that.” [...]
From the ever wonderful Richmond Fire Department twitter: bq. Units working a 2nd alarm fire in the 1700 blk of BELLEVUE. NFD bq. FIRE in the 17OO blk of BELLEVUE AVE UNDER CONTROL.
