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Thousands of Liberty residents lost power because of a transformer fire.
The Liberty Fire Department was first established in 1925, with J. Warren Smith—the same man who brought electricity to Liberty—being named as the first fire chief. The Fire Department moved into its present building in 1974. [28] The first town library originated in 1947 as a small room located in the same building as City Hall.
This fire was responsible for much of the destruction visible in Charleston at the end of the war. Ruins seen from the Circular Church , Charleston, South Carolina, 1865. Charleston was the site of the first successful submarine attack on February 17, 1864 when the H.L. Hunley sank the USS Housatonic . [ 24 ]
Charleston's embrace of classical architecture began after a devastating fire leveled much of the city. On April 27, 1838, Charleston suffered a catastrophic fire that burned more than 1000 buildings and caused about $3 million (equivalent to $84,910,000 in 2023) in damage at the time.
An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. #NEW : We are conducting a death investigation with the @CountyLex Fire Service and SLED ...
Vinyl siding of a nearby neighbor's house warped from the heat of the fire. The fire occurred at the Sofa Super Store, composed of a 42,000-square-foot (3,900 m 2) single-story steel trussed showroom building with a 17,000-square-foot (1,600 m 2) warehouse building located behind the retail space, [1] located at 1807 Savannah Highway in Charleston.
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Multiple agencies assisted with an early morning commercial structure fire on Spaulding Dr. in North Charleston. According to North Charleston Fire Department ...
Of the three fire stations built in 1887 after the Great earthquake, only this one at 116 Meeting St. is no longer in use; it has been converted into offices.. The first fire department in Charleston was a private insurance company which responded to fires of its members only; insured houses were marked by a metal plate on the front of the house.