Are 74 Miles Per Hour. John. Im in the breaking news center to update you this fire in burke county. Weve been following this the last 30 minutes. There is smoke. It is pouring out from behind the town hall. An old schoolhouse there, that is what is on fire. Its right next to the town hall. Dave faherty is there. Reporter you mention the old schoolhouse. I just talked to the fire chief. Everything is being done to prevent this fire from going over to the town hall, which is off to my left. Let me step out of the way. This is the old schoolhouse. You can see the heavy smoke pouring out of the building. Trying to get some to the fire and also trying to get to the front doors of the old schoolhouse. It is nearly 100 years old and has been the center of a major controversy on whether or not to tear this building down. In fact, i dont know if you fencing around the building to keep anyone out. That is because it has such a controversy, it ended up in the courthouse. The town has voted last
Were watching at this hour here in charlotte, involves a fire at a restaurant in east charlotte. Kristen miranda getting details first in the alert center right now. Kristen christine, on albermarle road in the 5800 block of albermarle road. Ive been watching the charlotte Fire Departments twitter feed. Good news sounds like the fire is under control. Take a look, this is a twoalarm fire, heavy fire showing at a restaurant and the fire department, Charlotte Fire Department came out pretty strong, 50 firefighters, took them 30 minutes to get it under control. I want to give you an idea maybe youre familiar, el paisano restaurant. Were trying to get pictures from the scene, as soon as we get them well bring them to you right away. Christine we are working to learn the names of the two charlottemecklenburg police they were on the way to a call on lanecrest drive. They heard the shooter near the intersection of milton and barrington drive. One person shot in the air, before crossing the st
That is a check of traffic, youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. John 5 02, following breaking news involving a fire at a restaurant in east charlotte. Christine Kristen Miranda is getting details right now. Kristen chris mentioned a section of albermarle road becaused of the fire. If your morning commute takes you along albermarle road, you might find this restaurant familiar to you. Fire shot through the roof of the restaurant when firefighters got there. Let me show you pictures from the scene that charlotte fire tweeted overnight a short time ago, actually. Took a crew of 50 firefighters to knock down the flame in 30 minutes. You can see the damage to the restaurant. If you drive that way in the next few minutes this morning, be aware crews are out there, could slow you getting through that scene, that area a little bit. Chris gave you alternate routes to get around the section closed. The scene as well, well try to get you li
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Lets look at the mapping systems, if youre outbound, if you need to, it would be North Sharon Amity over to Central Avenue put you around the fire scene there. There you see it inbound lanes all over, outbound, one lane is open but fire trucks still blocking at least one or two of those outbound lanes there as mark said. Lets take a live look, john belk and up toward bank of america stadium, volume of traffic here pretty light, running along smoothly in center city. Lets take a look at john belk, brookshire, no significant problems. Both highways running in the green. Further up to the north, just north of noda, accident statesville avenue at atando, so expect you will find a few delays there, if youre inbound along statesville avenue, and looking at the overall commute, most of us still running in the green with a few slow downs, providence road inbound and independence boulevard before albermarle. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and christine following more brea