| Major Fire In Down Town Pine Bluff |
| Tue. Mar 3rd 2009 |
Firefighters in Pine Bluff spent more than four hours Monday battling a house fire in the city’s historic district.
Authorities say a fire broke out around 4:15 p.m. at a home near the intersection of Barraque and Oak Street. The two-story antebellum structure is known locally as...
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| Weekend Storm Costs Two Lives In East Arkansas |
| Mon. Mar 2nd 2009 |
A weekend winter storm is being blamed for two fatal accidents in Eastern Arkansas.
According to a report from Arkansas State Police, Erica Coleman, 19, of Memphis, was killed Saturday afternoon after an accident on Interstate 55 in Crittenden County. Coleman was traveling southbound in a 2...
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| Fire At A Little Rock Nightclub Leaves One Man Dead |
| Sun. Mar 1st 2009 |
An early Sunday morning fire at a Little Rock nightclub kills a man.
Just after 7 a.m. Little Rock firefighters responded to a fire at The Palace Club on Wright Avenue.
They arrived to a smoke filled structure. Firemen and had a tough time entering because of metal bars on the windo...
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| NLR Apartment Fire Leaves 19 Homeless |
| Thu. Feb 26th 2009 |
An apartment fire in North Little Rock Thursday has left 19 people displaced.
Firefighters responded to the Valley View Apartment Complex at 431 McCain Boulevard just before 1:30 p.m.
Authorities say the blaze began in an upstairs unit, but they haven’t determined the exact cause. Desp...
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| War Veteran Dies in NE Arkansas House Fire |
| Thu. Feb 26th 2009 |
The cause of a Greene County house fire that claimed the life of an Iraq war veteran is under investigation.
Thirty-year-old Adem Marie Downs was killed in the fire that started about 1:00 a.m. Saturday. Downs was a supply specialist in Iraq with the Army's 4th Infantry Division.
Her husband...
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| Fatal House Fire in El Dorado |
| Tue. Feb 24th 2009 |
An El Dorado woman succumbed Friday to injuries she sustained in a fire that occurred at her home two days earlier.
Myrle B. Blann, 87, was transported to Medical Center of South Arkansas on Feb. 18 after firefighters found her inside her 1014 W. Fifth home when they responded to a report of a f...
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| House Fire in Rural Saline County |
| Mon. Feb 23rd 2009 |
No injuries were reported early today when members of the Salem Volunteer Fire Department responded to a house fire on Congo-Ferndale Road.
The fire started shortly before 1 a.m., said Salem Assistant Fire Chief Mike Moravec.
Lake Norrell Volunteer Fire Department and the Bryant Fire Department ...
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| Little Rock F.D. Called to Bryant for Bomb Scare |
| Sat. Feb 21st 2009 |
Bryant police closed a portion of Alcoa Road before noon Thursday after a suspicious package wrapped in holiday paper was found in the parking lot at the First Electric Cooperative office.
Bryant requested help from the Little Rock Police Department’s bomb squad.
“Luckily, it turned ...
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| Early-Morning Fire in Rural Northwest Bentonville Demolished Home. |
| Sat. Feb 21st 2009 |
As a lieutenant with the Bentonville Police Department, Mike Smith is used to being the one lending a helping hand. By the time the sun rose Thursday morning, it was Smith, his wife, Michelle, and their children, Cody and Christine, who were being consoled.
The house they had gone to sleep in at 11...
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| Three Children Die in Madison Fire |
| Fri. Feb 20th 2009 |
Three children died in a house fire early today in Madison, but the children’s mother and an infant sibling were able to escape unharmed.
The fire was reported just before 1:30 a.m. at the Toinette Mills residence on Gore Street in the Crow Creek area.
St. Francis County Sher...
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