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On Thursday about 62 miles south of Stopover in Pike County, Kentucky, the Blankenship Hollow Fire early in the afternoon injured a firefighter in a burnover incident. A structure fire in Blankenship Hollow escaped into the woodland and was reported to the Hazard Branch forestry office; volunteer fire departments at the incident requested a forestry crew to assist. The Forest Ranger IC type 5 and a Pike County crew were dispatched just before 2 p.m. and arrived at 3 p.m. Initial size-up from the IC was 10 acres burning in timber with an uphill run and high spread potential.
Several people were indicted recently by a Pike grand jury on charges of trafficking in various controlled substances, including a Pikeville man who is facing six separate charges of trafficking.
A Pike man who served three years in prison in connection with a cocaine conspiracy case is back behind bars after allegedly violating the terms of his supervised release.