Another vacant home burns down in Pikeville, and investigators call it suspicious.
It is the fifth suspected arson case in Pikeville in the past year.
Nothing is left of the vacant house on Poplar Street in Pikeville. Firefighters say when they arrived early Thursday morning, flames were at least ten feet in the air, even burning the overhead power lines.
Holly Day and Eric Clifton, who live next door, believe it was arson. They say they were walking their dog when the fire started.
No smoke alarms sounded, but smoke was a big signal for him to get out of his burning home.
It happened around 1:30 Sunday afternoon near the intersection of Chinoe Road and Cooper Drive.
"He was cooking at the time. But the fire was not in the kitchen," says Major Madden with the Lexington Fire Department. The Lexington man was unaware that part of his home was on fire. "There's a significant amount of damage to the contents of the fire room but smoke damage throughout the house."
That smoke is what neighbors noticed first. "Well my little brother told me to look out the window and there was smoke coming out of the house over there," remembers Aaron Rutter, a neighbor.
Community members and public officials joined Calloway County Fire-Rescue volunteers Saturday afternoon to dedicate the training facility that the organization has spent the last year-and-a-half building.
After welcoming remarks by CCFR Chief Tommy Morgan, training officer Heath Ryan talked about the word, “dedication,” saying that in the case of the facility, it meant much more than a ceremony to open a building.
Sept. 26--WILLISBURG -- After more than two days of searching, two firefighters found Randall Leon Chesser, a 7-year-old Washington County boy who had been missing since Saturday.
Randall, who is autistic, was found alive and well off Coulter Lane, about two miles northeast of the Willisburg fire station and three miles northeast of his house, shortly after 2:30 p.m.
A fire was reported Friday afternoon in the mulch pile/chipper yard on Blue Grass Army Depot. All personnel were accounted for, and there were no injuries to the workforce, according to Mary Moses, a spokesperson for the depot.
“The surrounding community and chemical weapons were not in any danger from the fire,” Moses said.
The BGAD fire department was the first to respond. On arrival, heavy smoke and fire was showing on and around the engine compartment of a kindling yard chipper machine and the surrounding mulch pile, she said.
Paramedics working in the Harrods Creek Fire Protection Districtwill have to temporarily stop providing certain types of medical care later this month, because an agreement that allows them to practice while serving as firefighters has expired.
For more than 18 months, Harrods Creek has been able to have firefighters, who are also certified as paramedics, provide more advanced medical care when responding to medical calls.
Read more: Harrods Creek Fire paramedics may lose ability to do some treatment
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