Several Illinois firefighters have quit after officials appointed a convicted arsonist as the head of their fire department. During Monday’s meeting, the Prairie Du Pont Fire District Board of Trustees removed John Rosencranz as chief of the volunteer fire department and replaced him with assistant chief Jerame Simmons. The decision resulted in 10 of the …
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A second man was arrested in Texas on Wednesday in connection with last month’s fire that killed his brother’s ex-boyfriend, who was reportedly burned alive as he slept in bed. According to the Waco Tribune, Robinson police apprehended Willie Lloyd, 39, a day after the August 12 fire that ultimately killed his former boyfriend, Cargin …
Family members identified the four people found dead inside their burning home on Sunday, all four with gunshot wounds. Relatives and friends said that 37-year-old Jairo Escano; his wife Elvira, 44; and their two kids, 13-year-old Isabel and 10-year-old Jairo Jr, were all “good people,” KHOU reported. The family was found Sunday morning after Houston …
Firefighters found a man, a woman, a boy, and a girl with gunshot wounds dead inside a southwest Houston home on fire Sunday morning. Police said the children appeared to be between the ages of 10 and 13, KPRC reported. The adults appeared to be in their 50s, according to KTRK. Fire crews were called …
Firefighters battling a house fire in Daytona Beach, Florida, Sunday morning found the remains of an adult woman on the ground outside. Police had initially responded to the location for a domestic violence call but immediately called for fire assistance when they saw flames coming out of the house, WNDB reported. Firefighters found the woman’s …
A Tennessee man was arrested Sunday night and charged with setting a fire that killed his father. John Hassey, the 25-year-old son of the victim, has been charged with arson and aggravated assault, according to fire investigators, who said Monday afternoon that “additional charges are possible,” WKRN reported. Medical crews arrived on the scene at …
Authorities arrested a New Jersey man on Monday in connection with Friday’s house fire that killed his 9-month-old daughter and the child’s grandparents. Surveillance footage reportedly shows Michael Sanders, 23, purchasing a torch lighter and cigars from a gas station about 10 minutes before the Hamilton Township blaze that killed his daughter, Malani Sanders, and …
California police arrested a man on Wednesday for climbing on top of a church and setting the roof on fire. According to an alert from the Los Angeles Fire Department, crews responded to reports of someone on top of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Boyle Heights who appeared to be trying to set the four-story …
Former Mississippi state Representative Ashley Henley was shot dead in the yard of the burnt out trailer where Kristina Michelle Jones, her husband’s sister, was found dead in December 2019. No arrests have been made in either death.
A 16-year-old Alabama boy has been arrested and charged with killing his mother and setting fire to their home. Firefighters were called to the scene of a house in Mobile just after midnight Tuesday morning and saw thick smoke and flames coming out of the back of the house. They extinguished the blaze, but found …
Two firefighters are dead and another is in critical condition after a shooting at a California fire station Tuesday. According to CNN, the gunman was an off-duty firefighter specialist and engineer who showed up to the Fire Station 81 in Agua Dulce and shot two of his colleagues, one fatally. The unidentified gunman then fled …
