October 29, 2012
A year after a spectacular fire destroyed its main facility, a Fort Wayne, Ind., company has overcome a series of bureaucratic hurdles and begun to rebuild. “We had so many entities involved: the city, county, state, federal. And we had …
August 29, 2012
A popular Platteville, Wis. restaurant has been destroyed by a fire that took nine hours to knock down. The Wisconsin State Journal reports the three-story building housed the Chicago’s Best restaurant, a popular gathering place for permanent residents of the …
August 1, 2012
A recycling and auto body shop has been destroyed by fire in western Wisconsin. The owner of Centerville Recycling near Trempealeau and two firefighters suffered smoke inhalation when the longtime family business went up in flames Sunday. Forty-four-year-old Alvin “Rob” …
July 20, 2012
Many residents of a St. Louis, Mo., apartment complex are homeless after a massive fire swept through the building. The fire broke out Tuesday night at the four-story, 197-unit apartment complex on Lindell Boulevard in the city’s Central West End. …