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An explosion and subsequent fire leveled a home in a St. Paul, Minnesota, suburb early Thursday, killing at least one person, a fire official said. The explosion happened just after 6:15 a.m. in ...
Firefighters say they responded to reports of a house fire in the 200 block of Edmund Avenue just after 5 a.m. Saturday. Fire crews say they then found "active fire and smoke conditions" inside a ...
A fourth child has died of injuries suffered in a fire at a home in St. Paul, officials said Tuesday. Police Sgt. Mike Ernster said 1-year-old Mauj CagTxuj Vaj died at Regions Hospital over the ...
Great Hinckley Fire. The Great Hinckley Fire was a conflagration in the pine forests of the U.S. state of Minnesota in September 1894, which burned an area of at least 200,000 acres (810 km 2; 310 sq mi) [1] (perhaps more than 250,000 acres [1,000 km 2; 390 sq mi]), including the town of Hinckley. The official death count was 418; the actual ...
The FBI and ATF tracked 164 structure fires from arson that occurred May 27–30, 2020, during the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul. [ 2 ][ 1 ] Rioters started fires by igniting flammable materials within or next to buildings and in some cases by deploying Molotov cocktails. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Property locations were damaged by spreading flames, heat, and smoke, and by suppressant ...
The Minneapolis Fire Department is one of the sponsoring agencies of Minnesota Task Force 1 (MN-TF1) an urban search and rescue team based in Minneapolis–Saint Paul metro area. [4] Similar to the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces located across the United States, MN-TF1 is a State of Minnesota resource designed to assist with emergencies involving natural or manmade disasters that ...
The Tri-Cities region has seen a series of home fires in recent weeks, including a deadly Finley blaze.
The Cloquet Fire (/ kloʊˈkeɪ / kloh-KAY) [2] was an immense forest fire in northern Minnesota, United States in October 1918, caused by sparks on the local railroads amid dry conditions. The fire left much of western Carlton County devastated, mostly affecting Moose Lake, Cloquet, and Kettle River. Cloquet was hardest hit by the fires; it was the worst natural disaster in Minnesota history ...