Recharge you need for the work anytime, anywhere, award anytime, anywhere, awardwinning coverage you can count on, this is abc 13 news. Mark we are staying on top of breaking news tonight at 5 30. Abc 13 live on the scene of a bad fire in brookneal. Danner Courtney Whedon is live outside of the old dan river plant off of 5 01 with everything that she is learning right now. Reporter danner, these flames are not letting up and the smell here is nearly unbearable. I talked to fire crews and they say they are wearing air masks to deal with e heavy smoke and they have to switch out team members every 30 minutes. A rough estimate fire crews are about 100 deep. They say that they are holding the wind is causing new fires to start every few minutes. I have been here for a while and i hear popping every once in a while and i believe that is explosions happening. Again, i do not know the cause of the fire. Crews are expected to be out here for hours and maybe into tomorrow morning. Danner courtn
We are here with matt vaugner are he is here taking pertures, he lives quarter mile away from this fire. How were you first alerted about this . I was at work and a little after 4 00 and someone came in and told us about it and started seeing all the fire trucks and the police cars and ambulances going down the road, and then i stepped outside and i saw what was the biggest smoke i ever seen in my life. A huge cloud. Reporter tell me, what does this mean to your community . [inaudible] noreen all right, we are having trouble with that live shot. Some technical difficulties. We will go back to courtney as soon as we can get that fixed. Of course as the temperature goes down outside, we are hiking it up inside our home. If you were not cautious you could pave the way for a fire. We talked to experts warm and safe. Toll stole live in danville. First, if you were using your fireplace for the first time this season. Have is professionally inspected. It can have an oil buildup that can cause
Is abc 13 news. Danner we want to get right out to the scene where this possible tornado touched down today. Mona kosar abdi is live right now in appomattox county in evergreen. Mona, what are you seeing tonight . Reporter danner, time in front of what is left of jack bakers home. His family tells me the 89yearold was actually home when the storm hits. He was sitting in that comfortable when high winds ripped the side of his home offripped the side of his home off. Fortunately he is okay and suffered minor scratches and injuries, but his home is completely destroyed. Down here what you are looking at is actually the basement. He wasnt able to get down there in time. And out here, there is what is left of the side of his home. Now his family was nice now let me go inside the home, and there is broken glass everywhere, furniture moved around. So they are shifting through it right now. You can see they are looking through what they can recover. Looking for his bible. And they told me the
Are below freezing. Most of news the 20s. Coming up which nights will be the coldest. Anytime, anywhere, award anytime, anywhere, awardwinning coverage you can count on, there is abc 13 news. We are taking a live look over lynchburg tonight. It is clear but cold. Temperatures outvied taking a nose dive for a few days. We want to get right to chief meteorologist George Flickinger so you know what to expect tonight. George . George danner, we are all going to see temperatures dropping into the teens tonight, so dress warmly. If the wind chill which makes it feel that much worse. If you are headed out this evening with a late dinner we are at 23 and this light blue number is the wind chill. Thats how cold it feels. Wind around 10 Miles Per Hour and any wind at all below freezing that makes it feel thatch more miserable if you are out. Virginia tech, blacksburg down to 18 with hillsdale at 16. Also seeing 20s as you make your danville and south boston. This map shows how cold it feelsthis
Meteorologists are calling for afor it to get down to 8 degreesfor it to get down to 8 degrees. This is dangerous cold, folks. So lets send it right to chief meteorologist George Flickinger for the latest. George danner, this is going to be the coldest weather we have seen so far this season moving into the heart of virginia. We stay below freezing all day today. Right now we are in the 20s. The temp is 29. That light blue number, thats how combed it feels. Right now feels like 21. Around the rest of the area, lynchburg, roanoke, blacksburg, you stay below freezing. Toward south side, temps in the upper 30s. And it feels that much colder. Winds from the west. That fire you were seeing in the brookneal area. You can see where the wind was blowing that smoke from west to east as we have a west to east breeze right now. Some good news that the winds will be diminishing after sunwill be diminishing after sunset. The temperatures will be falling down to the teens by tomorrow morning. Coming