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16 people displaced in fast-moving fire in Greeley Sunday evening
Greeley Fire Department
and last updated 2021-02-15 14:18:24-05
GREELEY, Colo. â Sixteen people in Greeley were displaced following a fast-moving fire that damaged a garage and residence Sunday evening.
The Greeley Fire Department said they received an initial call about a residential fire, followed by more calls describing an explosion, along Balsam Avenue in Greeley Sunday evening. When crews arrived at the scene, they found heavy flames in the garage that were extending into the residence. Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire.
Sixteen residents were displaced from the home.
The fire department is still investigating the cause of the fire but stressed that fire alarms and smoke detectors save lives. They said all residents escaped the house without injury thanks to those devices.
2 teens arrested after fake handgun is used during carjacking in Victorville
Victorville Daily Press
San Bernardino County Sheriff s officials recently arrested two teenaged boys after the pair allegedly used a fake handgun to carjack victims in a neighborhood near the Mall of Victor Valley.
On Monday, the Victorville Sheriff’s Station reported that the Jan. 21 carjacking occurred near the corner of Ironstone Avenue and Ironstone Place. Both streets are located in a residential neighborhood of Victorville, about two miles northwest of the mall.
Deputies responded to the scene at 4:48 p.m. Jan. 21, according to a sheriff s press release. An 18-year-old man reported that two men stole his 2010 Chevrolet HHR, a compact SUV, as well as cell phones belonging to him and his two passengers an 18-year-old woman and 14-year-old boy.
Visiting Our Past: The bag lady of Swain County was a literary light Rob Neufeld, Visiting Our Past
In the late 1930s, children in Almond saw an old lady walking around town carrying bags and muttering to herself.
She was the celebrated playwright, poet and novelist Olive Tilford Dargan, who had come to Swain County, the place of her former farm, after feeling a Red Scare chill in Asheville over her allegedly proletarian novel, “Call Home the Heart.”
She had written it under a pseudonym, Fielding Burke, but a publishing insider had leaked her identity.
Dargan’s bag contained gifts for the children. The muttering they heard was poems she recited in the act of composition.
Crime and fire report: 327 gallons of heating oil spill in basement; multiple reports of shoplifting as Christmas approaches
About 327 gallons of heating oil spilled in a Detroit Lakes basement. A HAZMAT team from Morris, Minn., is assisting with the cleanup. Multiple reports of shoplifting at Detroit Lakes businesses.
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The following reports were compiled from the Becker County Sheriff’s Office and Detroit Lakes Police Department from an official with knowledge of the cases, unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, Dec. 17
At 8:58 a.m., on the 1400 block of Cormorant Avenue, Detroit Lakes, a propane tank was stolen.
At 9:27 a.m., on the 100 block of Minnesota Avenue, Detroit Lakes, a tail light was broken on a parked vehicle.