Utah: Fire breaks out at fire station
A blaze broke out in a Draper fire station early Sunday as firefighters slept, gutting the maintenance area. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries after slipping on ice that formed as water was pumped onto the fire. The temperature was 2 degrees. The garage, where the fire occurred, didn’t have smoke detectors because the vehicle exhaust would set them off, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Monday.
Kentucky: Rail crash spills chemical
Four runaway rail cars struck two parked locomotives Monday near Irvine in east-central Kentucky, causing a fire and spilling butyl acetate, a flammable liquid, which prompted a limited evacuation and orders that others stay indoors. No injuries were reported, authorities said.
W. Virginia: Fire takes ninth life
Investigators on Monday found the body of a ninth victim in the charred debris left from a Saturday night fire in Huntington that destroyed a five-story apartment building, authorities said. Officials said it could take days to identify the cause of the fire, which began in a second-floor unit, shooting flames and smoke up utility access channels to the upper floors. Twenty-four people were rescued, Fire Chief Greg Fuller said. The circa-1924 building did not have a sprinkler system; sprinklers are not required under state law.
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