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The Kansas City Star described the national climate of the late 1970s as "high unemployment, inflation and double-digit interest rates [that added] pressure on builders to win contracts and complete projects swiftly". [3] Described by the newspaper as fast-tracked, construction began in May 1978 on the 40-story Hyatt Regency Kansas City.
The 31-year-old first responder has fought fires with the Kansas City Fire Department for around eight years now. And the tragedy of losing his own home to fire reminds him it can happen to anyone.
A man was critically injured when a fire engulfed a home early Friday in the Brookside area of Kansas City, a fire department spokesman said. Neighbors called 911 shortly before 5:15 a.m. after ...
The Kansas City Fire Department responded just before 11:30 p.m. to a fire in the 5700 block of Bales Avenue in Kansas City’s North Town Fork Creek neighborhood east of Interstate 71.
Two days later, on December 17, the North Wichita Fire was fully contained, with a burned area of 7,572 acres (3,064 ha). The wildfire destroyed five structures and cost approximately $46,000 (2021 USD). Another but smaller wildfire, the Wichita County Fire, was contained a day later on December 18 with a burned area of 782 acres (316 ha).
The Kansas City Fire Department first originated with the formation of volunteer bucket brigades as early as 1858. Church bells rung to signal a fire alarm and members would assemble at the scene to help. In 1867, the city abandoned the voluntary bucket brigade for a paid fire department, and Colonel Frank Foster was elected as its first chief. [4]
Firefighters responded to the blaze at 12:15 a.m. at an apartment building in the 2600 block of East Eighth Street, said Battalion Chief Michael Hopkins with the Kansas City Fire Department.
From May 4–6, 2007, a major and damaging tornado outbreak significantly affected portions of the Central United States.The most destructive tornado in the outbreak occurred on the evening of May 4 in western Kansas, where about 95% of the city of Greensburg in Kiowa County was destroyed by an EF5 tornado, the first of the new Enhanced Fujita Scale and such intensity since the 1999 Bridge ...