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ONSLOW COUNTY - Law Enforcement, EMS, and Fire Personnel were called to a structure fire off of Murrill Hill Road this afternoon at around 3:00pm. The structure was a mobile home that was fully engulfed. The responding personnel were told that several people were trapped inside the structure.
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MONROE - Union County firefighters battled a large fire at a building on the 6000 block of Concord Highway late Monday night.
The blaze started at Southern Farm Equipment, Inc., just after 9:45 p.m.
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ROCKY MOUNT - In preparation for the city’s upcoming annexations, the Rocky Mount City Council approved five fire protection contracts with rural fire departments that cover the areas to be annexed.
With June 30 set as the day Rocky Mount will officially annex more than 1,600 acres in Nash and Edgecombe counties, the city is obligated to provide fire protection services to these areas.
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CHARLOTTE - Charlotte firefighters are out of gas money.
Deputy Chief Rich Granger said, “(It) always makes us nervous. It’s just something we have to deal with, and we will.”
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CLYDE - A fire at an apartment complex Thursday displaced 15 people and injured two. The fire was reported about 7 p.m. at Meadowland Apartments near the intersection of Jones Cove and Old Clyde roads.
The first fire crews on the scene reported heavy fire and smoke coming from one of the buildings at the complex, Clyde fire Lt. Gary Moore said. The roof collapsed 10-15 minutes after fire crews arrived, he said. Fourteen area fire departments responded.
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CHARLOTTE - A fire at a south Charlotte apartment forced at least eight families out of their homes on Wednesday.
It happened shortly before 2 p.m. at the Andover Woods Apartments in the 7800 block of Andover Woods Drive.
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WENDELL - Emergency officials now know where Wendell’s next fire station will be built.
The Planning Board last week approved a site plan for what is being called a civic site in the new Wendell Falls subdivision.
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HENDERSON COUNTY - A 59-year-old Henderson County man died in a house fire early this morning, according to local fire officials.
The Blue Ridge Fire Department was dispatched to Old Jordan Street at 4:52 a.m., quickly followed by the Henderson County Rescue Squad, according Rescue Squad Assistant Chief Ed Orrell.
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LINVILLE FALLS - Rain helped fire crews Sunday in their weeklong battle against the Sunrise fire, which has blackened 1,964 acres near the Linville Gorge Wilderness in northern McDowell County.
“We got some decent rain this morning, and we’re looking for even heavier rain this evening,” Eric Mosley, a spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service, said late Sunday afternoon.
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