Saturday, December 27, 2014

Marion, Indiana house fire kills man, woman, their 4 dogs

Indiana house fire kills man, woman, their 4 dogs

By Associated Press Published: December 27, 2014, 11:41 am Updated: December 27, 2014, 1:45 pm

Photo from a house fire in Marion that left two people dead on Saturday December 27, 2014. Courtesy Dan Gadberry.

MARION, Ind. (AP) — Northeastern Indiana officials say a house fire in Marion has killed a man and a woman and the couple’s four dogs.

WTRV-TV reports authorities identified the two victims killed in Saturday morning’s fire as 61-year-old Robin Lyons and 55-year-old Melody Teegarden.

The local coroner says the couple lived in the home with four dogs which also died in the 9 a.m. fire in the city about 60 miles northeast of Indianapolis.

Firefighters say they had trouble gaining entry to the home because furniture was blocking the front door.

The fire’s cause remains under investigation.

Oil fumes from ruptured pipeline in Israel spread to Aqaba, Jordan. Many people went to the hospital sick from the fumes.

Oil fumes from ruptured pipeline in Israel spread to Aqaba

by Hana Namrouqa | Dec 04, 2014 | 23:02

Oil seen in the desert in southern Israel, 500 metres from the border with Jordan, on Thursday. An oil pipeline rupture on Wednesday night caused thousands of cubic metres of crude oil to spill into the desert, with the fumes spreading to the port city of Aqaba (AFP photo)

AMMAN — An oil spill in southern Israel near the Jordanian border on Wednesday night created a state of panic among Aqaba residents, dozens of whom went to hospitals after suffering from shortness of breath, according to officials.

An oil pipeline rupture caused thousands of cubic metres of crude oil to spill into the desert in southern Israel just north of the Israeli Red Sea resort city of Eilat and 500 metres from the border with Jordan, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Medical staff at two of Aqaba’s main hospitals said their emergency rooms received about 170 people suffering from shortness of breath.

Prince Hashem Bin Abdullah Military Hospital Director Ebrahim Amr said the emergency room received 70 to 75 patients, noting that the majority of them did not require medical treatment.

“People were coming to the hospital because they were panicked by the smell of the gas. Most of them were discharged within half an hour,” Amr told The Jordan Times on Thursday.

A doctor at the Islamic Hospital in Aqaba told The Jordan Times that the emergency room received 80 to 84 patients.

“They were treated for shortness of breath and accelerated heartbeat, especially those who suffer from asthma and allergies,” added the doctor, who preferred to remain unnamed.

In a statement e-mailed to The Jordan Times, the Aqaba Civil Defence Department (CDD) said its gas detectors showed that there was a concentration of a type of gas found in crude oil.

CDD personnel scoured the city for two hours in search of the source, but could not find any signs of a gas leak, the statement said.

“After further inspection, it was evident that the source of the gas was Eilat, where a vehicle rammed into a crude oil pipeline,” the CDD added.

An Aqaba resident who works in the Ibn Hayyan laboratory said that its air monitors showed that concentrations of hydrogen sulfide in the air were above acceptable levels on Wednesday night.

Hydrogen sulfide occurs naturally in crude petroleum, according to web sources, which indicated that it is a flammable and colourless gas.

“Our air monitors showed that hydrogen sulfide concentration was 85 parts per billion (ppb), while the average concentration of the gas in Aqaba is usually 1-2 ppb,” the lab technician told The Jordan Times on Thursday, underscoring that local and international standards describe a hydrogen sulfide concentration of up to 30ppb as acceptable.

The lab technician, who preferred to remain unnamed, said the gas smell prevailed from 8:30pm until midnight.

“The air monitors indicate that the hydrogen sulfide concentration in the air dropped today to its average levels,” he said.

Meanwhile, Abu Mutaz, a resident of the port city who works for the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority, said the smell of gas was more noticeable in the town’s northern neighbourhoods.

“The smell was very strong. I though the smell was a gas leak in my kitchen; all my neighbours thought the same. We took to the streets not knowing where the smell was coming from,” Abu Mutaz told The Jordan Times.

Aqaba residents said the CDD also checked chemical industries in northern Aqaba to identify the source of the smell, and advised people to stay indoors and close their windows.

AFP quoted Israeli officials saying the spill was “a couple of kilometres long”, while the leak involved a 245 kilometre pipeline carrying crude oil from the southern port city of Ashkelon on the Mediterranean coast to Eilat.

The AFP report said the spill took place at 8:45pm on Wednesday in a new section of the pipeline.

Meanwhile, Reuters reported that millions of litres of oil flooded a nature reserve in Israel, causing one of the country’s worst environmental disasters.

The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN), which manages several nature reserves in Wadi Araba near the border with Israel, said the leak didn’t reach Jordanian territory.

“Therefore it is not expected to have an impact on the country’s ecosystems, however, the situation will be different if the oil leaks into shared underground aquifers,” RSCN Director General Yehya Khaled told The Jordan Times.

The Royal Marine Conservation Society (JREDS) in Aqaba said the oil spill did not affect marine life in Aqaba Gulf as the spill occurred on land and did not reach the Red Sea.

“Our information indicates that the gas was hydrogen sulfide. It smells like rotten eggs and is heavier than air; that’s why it moved towards Aqaba, which is lower in altitude than Eilat, and also due to the wind direction,” Aya Kalaldeh, an environment engineer at JREDS, told The Jordan Times.

PLUMBING REPAIR CREW RUPTURES 3-INCH GAS LINE IN WESTON, FLORIDA

PLUMBING REPAIR CREW RUPTURES 3-INCH GAS LINE IN WESTON, FLORIDA

A natural-gas leak took several hours to patch up Saturday near a golf course in Weston, a Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue spokesman said.

About three dozen firefighters from the agency's hazardous-materials team and Sunrise Fire Rescue were on-site trying to halt the leak at Bonaventure and Blatt boulevards, Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue spokesman Mike Jachles said.

Shortly before noon, workers making a plumbing repair struck a 3-inch gas line at the nearby golf course, Bonaventure Country Club, causing the leak, he said.
The "significant operation" required a lot of manpower to get to the damaged gas line that was 5 feet underground, Jachles said.

Utilities workers from the city of Sunrise were also on scene to repair the leak.

No homes were evacuated. Some nearby businesses may have been affected, though it's unclear how many.

Drivers injured in Worth County, Georgia crash. 250 gallons of diesel leaked.

One driver critically injured in Work County vehicle crash

SYLVESTER — Two drivers were injured in a traffic accident Saturday in Worth County, one of them critically, officials say.

According to the Georgia State Patrol, Anthony Landrum was traveling north on State Highway 33 just north of Calhoun Road in Worth County when the 2008 Ford pickup truck he was driving was involved in a collision with a tractor trailer truck in the south lane driven by Kenneth Tyner, 53.

Trooper Robert Corbin with GSP Post 40 said the accident occurred around 10 a.m. when Landrum failed to maintain his lane and allowed his vehicle to cross the center line into the southbound lane.

The impact of the collision caused the tractor trailer to “jackknife,” Corbin said, and end up the woods off the west shoulder of the highway, while the pickup truck left the highway off the east shoulder.

Following the accident, Landrum was airlifted to Macon Medical Center in critical condition, Corbin said, while Tyner was treated for a broken knee at Phoebe Worth Hospital in Sylvester.

Traffic was blocked on Highway 33 until about 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Corbin said, when the northbound lane was reopened to traffic. Hazmat personnel and workers with the Georgia Department of Transportation were continuing to remove debris, sand and up to about 250 gallons of diesel fuel from the roadway late Saturday afternoon, Corbin said.

The incident continues under investigation by the GSP and charges are pending against Landrum, Corbin said

HAZMAT Crew Responds To Lexington, KY Fuel Spill

HAZMAT Crew Responds To Lexington, KY Fuel Spill

Lexington, KY firefighters were called out to the Circle K on Pimlico Parkway just before 11:30 a.m. Saturday for a report of a fuel leak.

According to a fire department official, a woman was filling up her gas tank when the fuel pump came out and spilled about 9 gallons of fuel. The fuel made it a couple hundred feet away to the storm sewer. The manager at the gas station was able to use oil dry on the spill before firefighters arrived to contain some of the fuel.

HAZMAT was also called to the scene to monitor the storm drain, but they didn't find any dangerous levels of any fumes or vapors.

"Our biggest concern was when you get vapors like that underground in a storm sewer, we don't want a high level, get an explosive level of gas in an underground area like that, and then we didn't want a lot of the fuel to get out into the rest of the storm water collection systems," said Lexington Fire Major Eddie Crews.

Now it will be up to the water quality team to determine how to clean the fuel out of the storm sewer.

Weather blamed for 18-wheeler accident Updated: Saturday, December 27 2014, 06:20 PM CST SAN ANTONIO - The weather is being blamed for an accident involving an 18-wheeler Saturday morning. Police say just before 5:45 a.m., a big rig driver lost control of his trailer on South Loop 410 and Interstate 35 South. The trailer then jack knifed. The truck suffered major tire damage, but thankfully no one was hurt. Police say the driver lost control due to slick roads.

Read More at: http://www.news4sanantonio.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/weather-blamed-18wheeler-accident-18958.shtml

text size Weather blamed for 18-wheeler accident Updated: Saturday, December 27 2014, 06:20 PM CST SAN ANTONIO - The weather is being blamed for an accident involving an 18-wheeler Saturday morning. Police say just before 5:45 a.m., a big rig driver lost control of his trailer on South Loop 410 and Interstate 35 South. The trailer then jack knifed. The truck suffered major tire damage, but thankfully no one was hurt. Police say the driver lost control due to slick roads.

Read More at: http://www.news4sanantonio.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/weather-blamed-18wheeler-accident-18958.shtml

Kinder Morgan Adopts New Pipeline Routes to Minimize Environmental Impact Among Intense Opposition from Massachusetts Residents

Kinder Morgan Adopts New Pipeline Routes through Massachusetts and other NE States

HOUSTON (WGGB/AP) — Tennessee Gas Pipeline parent company Kinder Morgan says they’re adopting 2 alternative routes for the proposed high-pressure natural gas pipeline project in an effort to “minimize environmental impact.”

The announcement came Friday afternoon. The TGP is a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc. which is the largest energy infrastructure company in North America. Their pipelines transport natural gas, gasoline, crude oil, CO2 and other products.

The route would travel from New York into western Massachusetts for 63 miles, then turn north and continue for another 70 miles in southern New Hampshire before turning south again and ending in Dracut.

The company says by changing the routes it will allow for the expansion of natural gas service in New Hampshire. In a press release sent to ABC40 Friday, the company states, “Following a thorough evaluation of feasible route alternatives for the market path of the project from Wright, New York, to Dracut, Massachusetts, the company plans to submit an amended resource report filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Monday, Dec. 8.”

The plan by the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company is to adopt both the New York Powerline Alternative and the New Hampshire Powerline Alternative using the existing utility corridors to lessen the environmental impact of the project. TGP says, “The proposed route change will enable the company to avoid and substantially minimize the crossing of certain Article 97 properties and area of critical environmental concern in Massachusetts.”

Kinder Morgan spokesman Allen Fore said Friday that the path would weave through 16 Massachusetts communities and 17 in New Hampshire.

The original plan for the pipeline started in the Berkshires, headed north through parts of Franklin County, and continued on to Dracut, Mass. All told, 45 towns would have been affected and for months there have been push-backs from groups across western Massachusetts not wanting to see the project come to their community. Opposition also came from local politicians including Senator Ed Markey, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Congressman Jim McGovern.

“While evaluating the feasibility of possible routes, which is a critical part of the regulatory review prior to building a pipeline, as we committed to do when we started this process, we have listened to stakeholders and taken their comments and concerns seriously,” said East Region Pipelines President Kimberly S. Watson. “By adopting the New York Powerline Alternative and the New Hampshire Powerline Alternative, TGP will be able to construct significantly more of the pipeline adjacent to and parallel with existing utility corridors in portions of New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, reduce the need for construction in undeveloped portions of the market path region and lessen environmental impacts. Additionally, we are working with Liberty Utilities and others to expand natural gas service into new areas in New Hampshire.”

The project is being developed to serve specifically the New England region and would provide additional access to diverse supplies of natural gas to customers in New England. The firm hopes to break ground on the two-year, $5 billion project in early 2017.
To read more about this latest project development with the Tennesse Gas Pipeline visit Kinder Morgan’s website by clicking here.

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Tennessee Gas Pipeline Adopts New Routes via Existing Utility Corridors in New Hampshire and New York for Proposed Northeast Energy Direct Project

Friday, December 5, 2014 2:00 pm EST

"While evaluating the feasibility of possible routes, which is a critical part of the regulatory review prior to building a pipeline, as we committed to do when we started this process, we have listened to stakeholders and taken their comments and concerns seriously"

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (TGP), a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI), is adopting two alternative routes for its proposed Northeast Energy Direct project to minimize environmental impact and allow for the expansion of natural gas service in the state of New Hampshire. Following a thorough evaluation of feasible route alternatives for the market path of the project from Wright, New York, to Dracut, Massachusetts, the company plans to submit an amended resource report filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Monday, Dec. 8. TGP plans to adopt both the New York Powerline Alternative and the New Hampshire Powerline Alternative, which will utilize existing utility corridors to lessen the environmental impact of the project. TGP is also notifying elected officials, federal and state regulatory agencies, and landowners in proximity to the proposed pipeline of its decision. TGP also noted the proposed route change will enable the company to avoid and substantially minimize the crossing of certain Article 97 properties and areas of critical environmental concern in Massachusetts.

“While evaluating the feasibility of possible routes, which is a critical part of the regulatory review prior to building a pipeline, as we committed to do when we started this process, we have listened to stakeholders and taken their comments and concerns seriously,” said East Region Pipelines President Kimberly S. Watson. “By adopting the New York Powerline Alternative and the New Hampshire Powerline Alternative, TGP will be able to construct significantly more of the pipeline adjacent to and parallel with existing utility corridors in portions of New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, reduce the need for construction in undeveloped portions of the market path region and lessen environmental impacts. Additionally, we are working with Liberty Utilities and others to expand natural gas service into new areas in New Hampshire.”

In November, Liberty Utilities (Pipeline & Transmission) Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. (APUC), and a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc. agreed to form a new entity, Northeast Expansion LLC, to undertake development, construction and ownership of a 30-inch or 36-inch natural gas transmission pipeline to be located between Wright, New York, and Dracut, Massachusetts. Under the agreement, APUC will initially subscribe for a 2.5 percent interest in the new entity, with an opportunity to increase its participation up to 10 percent.

The NED Project is being developed to serve specifically the New England region. The New England region, as a whole, stands to benefit from the NED Project as it will bring additional gas supplies to meet the growth needs of local distribution companies, enable New England to sustain its reliance on natural gas-fired generation and lower energy costs by providing scalable transportation capacity attached to lower cost, nearby domestic and abundant Marcellus natural gas supplies. As part of TGP’s fully integrated natural gas pipeline transportation system, the project will provide additional access to diverse supplies of natural gas to customers in the New England region.

With the adoption of the New York Powerline Alternative and the New Hampshire Powerline Alternative, the proposed revised route will now include: approximately 188 miles of new and co-located mainline pipeline facilities, including about 53 miles of pipeline generally co-located with TGP’s existing 200 Line and an existing power utility corridor in western New York near the proposed Market Path Mid Station No. 1; approximately 64 miles of pipeline generally co-located with an existing power utility corridor in eastern Massachusetts; and approximately 71 miles of pipeline generally co-located with an existing power utility corridor in southern New Hampshire, extending east to the proposed Dracut, Massachusetts, Market Path Tail Station. As currently contemplated, exclusive of laterals, the route would be adjacent to or co-located with existing rights-of-way for approximately 90 percent of the mileage. TGP’s filing will reflect the revisions to and a full description of the proposed route and proposed project facilities.

TGP plans to host open houses in the project area beginning in mid January 2015 to provide additional information and answer questions. The open house schedule will be sent to landowners in proximity to the proposed pipeline, towns and communities, and elected officials when the dates and locations for those open houses have been established. The schedule will also be filed with the FERC and posted on the NED Project website: www.kindermorgan.com.

Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI) is the largest energy infrastructure company in North America. It owns an interest in or operates approximately 80,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. The company’s pipelines transport natural gas, gasoline, crude oil, CO₂ and other products, and its terminals store petroleum products and chemicals, and handle bulk materials like coal and petroleum coke. Kinder Morgan is the largest midstream and third largest energy company in North America with an enterprise value of more than $125 billion. For more information please visit www.kindermorgan.com.

This news release includes forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties and are based on the beliefs and assumptions of management, based on information currently available to them. Although Kinder Morgan believes that these forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that such assumptions will materialize. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements herein include those enumerated in Kinder Morgan’s reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they were made, and except to the extent required by law, Kinder Morgan undertakes no obligation to update or review any forward-looking statement because of new information, future events or other factors. Because of these uncertainties, readers should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.

Contact:

Kinder Morgan, Inc.
Media Relations
Richard Wheatley, (713) 420-6828
Richard_wheatley@kindermorgan.com
or
Investor Relations
(713) 369-9490
km_ir@kindermorgan.com
www.kindermorgan.com

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Tennessee Gas Pipeline Northeast Energy Direct (NED) Project

Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, L.L.C. (TGP), a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, is developing the Northeast Energy Direct Project (NED) by upgrading infrastructure in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut to help meet increased demand for natural gas.
Project Benefits:

Scalable up to 1.2 Bcf/d (30”) and 2.2 Bcf/d (36”)
Liberates costly bottlenecks and lowers gas/electric prices for consumers
Supplies Northeast U.S. and Eastern Canada with incremental and direct access to prolific and regional low cost abundant natural gas
Replaces declining historical gas sources
Designed to serve:
- New and existing gas and power generation markets along TGP’s existing footprint,
- Markets on the Algonquin system via M&NP HubLine and Mendon
- Eastern Canadian, Upstate/Downstate New York and southern Connecticut markets via Iroquois,
- Maine and Atlantic Canada Markets via M&NP/PNGTS Joint Facilities,
- Additional broad New England markets via existing / expanding interconnections,
- New markets where gas service is currently unavailable
Approximately 90% co-located along existing utility corridors/adjacent to TGP mainline

NED helps sustain electric grids, reduce emissions, lower energy costs, and spur economic growth region-wide.

The Transformative NED Project:

Directly accesses prolific, low-cost, regional supplies
Reduces or eliminates cost harm and basis differentials in the region
Serves broad sectors and locales whether LDC service or critical power generation.

Planned in-service 2018

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Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff
Kinder Morgan, Inc. said the alternative path would follow existing rights-of-way along utility lines, meaning it would cross fewer Massachusetts communities.

By Jay FitzgeraldGlobe Correspondent December 05, 2014

Stung by intense local opposition to a proposed natural gas pipeline winding through western and central Massachusetts, a Houston energy company said Friday that it will pursue an alternative route that bypasses many Massachusetts communities by veering north and shooting across southern New Hampshire.

Kinder Morgan Inc. said much of the alternative path would follow existing rights-of-way along utility lines in the two states, meaning it would cross fewer residential properties and undeveloped lands. Kinder Morgan plans to file the new route on Monday with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which has final say on gas pipelines in New England.

Kinder Morgan officials said that 14 Massachusetts towns along the northern tier of the state, from Dracut to Northfield will no longer be in the pipeline’s path. But the pipeline would cross four new Massachusetts towns: Cheshire, Hancock, Lanesborough, and Shelburne, and a southern stretch of New Hampshire.

To meet the region’s growing demand for natural gas, Kinder Morgan previously sought to build a 127-mile pipeline stretching from Richmond near the New York border across Massachusetts’ northern spine to a transmission hub in Dracut, about 30 miles from Boston. Kinder Morgan’s original multibillion-dollar plan aimed to tap abundant, inexpensive natural gas from Eastern shale fields to help ease a shortage here blamed on inadequate pipeline capacity.

That shortage has led to skyrocketing electric rates this winter in Massachusetts since most power plants use natural gas to generate electricity. The company hopes to have the pipeline operating by late 2018.

Kinder Morgan’s first pipeline proposal met widespread opposition from residents, environmentalists, and politicians who argued the pipeline would needlessly rip up private yards, parks, forests, and other properties along its path through about 45 communities. But if Kinder Morgan’s goal is to lessen opposition by proposing a new route, it may have miscalculated.

Diane Hewitt, a member of the Stop the Pipeline Coordinating Committee in Groton, said she and other critics will still oppose Kinder Morgan’s plans, even though the proposed pipeline would no longer go through Groton. She added that her group is already in contact with New Hemisphere residents, where a meeting to fight the pipeline is planned for later this month.

“It doesn’t change people’s minds,” said Hewitt. “It still begs the question whether the pipeline is even needed.”

Kinder Morgan’s alternative would still entail 64 miles of new pipeline in Massachusetts, starting along the New York border in Hancock, then snaking its way through Hinsdale and northwest to Northfield.

The alternative pipeline would then head into southern New Hampshire, running east along existing electric and natural gas corridors, before dipping back into Massachusetts near Dracut, according to Kinder Morgan. The New Hampshire section of the main pipeline would stretch 70 miles through 17 communities, the company said.

In Massachusetts, the main alternative pipeline would be entirely on or adjacent to transmission lines owned by Northeast Utilities. A spokesman for Northeast Utilities, the parent of Boston’s NStar and Western Massachusetts Electric, said Kinder Morgan officials have contacted the utility about its plan, but Northeast has not seen details.
“We haven’t authorized the use of our rights-of-way, nor have we taken a position on their proposal,” said Mike Durand, the spokesman.

Allen Fore, a spokesman for Kinder Morgan, expressed confidence that the company can work out a deal with Northeast Utilities. He also acknowledged that fierce local opposition drove Kinder Morgan’s decision to go with an alternative plan.
“We have heard and we have listened,” said Fore. Ideally, he said, Kinder Morgan would like to start construction on the pipeline in 2017.

Doug Whitbeck, a resident of Mason, N.H., said he opposed the first Kinder Morgan plan because it was so close to New Hampshire and thought it was a bad idea for the entire region. Whitbeck, a retired technical writer, is helping to organize a Dec. 13 informational meeting in Mason about Kinder Morgan’s latest plan.
Whitbeck said the reasons for opposing the pipeline in “live free or die” New Hampshire may be different than in more liberal Massachusetts, but opposition could be just as strong.

“There’s a lot of people up here who may not be as concerned about climate change, but they do very much care about property rights,” said Whitbeck.

Kinder Morgan has not ruled out isolated cases of eminent domain property takings, although Fore stressed that 90 percent of the main pipeline through New Hampshire would be on or near transmission-line rights-of-way owned by utilities.

William Hinkle, a spokesman for New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan, said in a statement that rising energy costs are a major concern and Hassan is exploring ways to bring more natural gas into the state. But she has not embraced Kinder Morgan’s plan.
“Governor Hassan will continue to urge the company to listen to communities, take steps to reduce impacts, and ensure local benefits,” said Hinkle.

In Massachusetts, Governor-elect Charlie Baker came out against the Kinder Morgan’s original proposal during his campaign, saying that its impact on communities was too great and he favored increasing capacity on existing pipelines. This week, a spokesman said Baker will review the new Kinder Morgan plan after he takes office in January.

FIRE DAMAGES GRUNDY CENTER MANUFACTURING SHOP IN IOWA

Fire damages Grundy Center manufacturing shop in Iowa

Posted: Dec 27, 2014 2:20 PM EST Updated: Dec 27, 2014 2:20 PM EST

Written by Ally Crutcher, Multimedia Journalist

GRUNDY CENTER (KWWL) - According to the Grundy Center Fire Department, firefighters were dispatched to a fire at Heavy Equipment Manufacturing, located at 601 E First St., around 9 a.m. Saturday.
When they arrived, flames could be seen and firefighters stayed on scene for roughly three hours.
The building has extensive damage. The State Fire Marshal's Office has been asked to assist in the investigation to determine how the fire started.
The fire department says no injuries were reported.

3 Children Die in Deadly House Fire In Byhalia, Mississippi

BREAKING NEWS: 3 Children Die in Deadly House Fire In Byhalia, Mississippi

Posted: Dec 27, 2014 11:49 AM EST Updated: Dec 27, 2014 2:07 PM EST

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Marshall County Mississippi police and fire responded to a fire call around 2 am Saturday morning at 917 French Rd in Byhalia where three children were reportedly trapped and killed inside a burning house.

Major Kelly McMillen with the Marshall County Sheriff's Office tells Fox 13 that the children ages eight months, one year and two years old were trapped and killed inside the house.

Fox13 has learned that the address of the fire was the home of the grandmother, who was babysitting at the time of the fire for her daughter. Eight month old Mikayla, one year old Abel and two year old Tylan.

Several fire crews from Watson, Red Banks, and Victoria were on the scene assisting.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

A "Go Fund Me" account has been set up to help the family with expenses. You can log on to the link to make your donation at http://www.gofundme.com/jcuwa8

CRASH KILLS NATOMA, KANSAS TEEN – HE WAS NOT WEARING A SEAT BELT AND HE WAS INJECTED FROM THE CAR UPON COLLISION

Crash Kills Natoma, Kansas Teen – He was not wearing a seat belt and he was injected from the car upon CollisIon

Published on Saturday, 27 December 2014 13:43

Written by David Elliott

A Natoma teenager died Friday night in Rooks County following a car versus semi truck crash.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, at 9:30 PM Friday, a 1997 Ford Crown Victoria driven by 17-year-old Keller Anthony Krug of Waldo was southbound on US Highway 183 two miles south of Plainville.

Krug lost control on the ice, slid across the highway and struck a northbound 2012 Freightliner semi driven by 62-year-old Wayne Douglas Ulrich of Russell.

18-year-old Elijah James Holmes of Natoma, a passenger in the car, was ejected.

Holmes, Krug and Ulrich were transported to Rooks County Health Center in Plainville.

Holmes was pronounced dead at the hospital at 11 PM Friday.

Krug and Holmes were not wearing seat belts according to the KHP.

Ulrich was buckled up.

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