Turlock girl wakes family to escape house fire Firefighters battle a house fire on Fosberg Road late Sunday (Photo courtesy of TFD).
A 12-year-old girl’s quick actions helped her and her mother escape a house fire on Sunday in Turlock.
The fire was at a two-story home in the 4000 block of Fosberg Road.
The fire ignited around midnight in the garage and spread up to the second floor, said Turlock Fire Department spokesperson Capt. Jason Bernard.
The young girl heard the sound from the crackling flames and smelled the smoke and quickly woke her mother and the two were able to get out of the home as the smoke alarm started going off, Bernard said.
Turlock woman feeds hospital workers in honor of late husband Kraving Kebab Pizza delivered pizza and baklava to the hospital on New Year’s Day (Photo contributed).
Turlock resident Gaylene Cornell’s husband Bill passed away from cancer three years ago and when his birthday would come around on Dec. 31, she usually marked it with a donation to the American Cancer Society. But this New Year’s Eve, as the clock was counting down, she realized she had forgotten her donation and set out to put something together.
That little slip of the mind led to a community-wide effort to show their gratitude for Emanuel Medical Center employees by providing them meals from local restaurants. It’s now growing to include Turlock’s police and fire departments and emergency medical technicians.
One hospitalized in highway crash A single-vehicle collision early Saturday morning on Highway 99 in Turlock seriously injured one (Photo courtesy of TFD).
A single-vehicle collision early Saturday morning on Highway 99 in Turlock seriously injured a Ceres man, the California Highway Patrol reported.
The collision happened around 2 a.m. Saturday on Highway 99, near West Main Street.
Leonel Dias, 24, of Ceres was driving a 2001 GMC SUV that for an unknown reason he allowed the vehicle to drift off the east side of the highway.
The GMC struck a metal bridge railing and then plunged down the embankment before coming to a stop on West Main Street.
Van destroyed by propane tank explosion A propane tank exploded inside a van Saturday afternoon in Turlock (Photo contributed).
One person sustained minor injuries when a propane tank exploded in a van parked near a taco truck in Turlock Saturday afternoon, the Turlock Fire Department reported.
The explosion happened around 1 p.m. Saturday in the area of Glenwood and Lander avenues.
The van was being used to transport some propane tanks that had just been filled for the use of the taco truck.
What caused the propane tank to ignite is unknown at this time, but witnesses did report smelling propane just prior to the explosion, said Turlock Acting Fire Chief Gary Carlson.