A dumpster next to an empty house caught fire in North Omaha Sunday night because fireworks were thrown away.
The blaze spread to two houses in the 2500 block of Pratt Street. The vacant house got the most damage.
Thankfully, no one was displaced from the fire.
“My advice would be going to professional shows, leave fireworks to the professionals, we have too many injuries this time of year anyway from fireworks and careless acts that destroy property, my suggestion would be is supervise kids at all times and go to professional shows,” said Capt. Donald Dooley, Acting Battalion Chief, Omaha Fire Dept.
Both M.U.D. and OPPD have responded to the fire.
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The York Police Department said a child was killed when the roof of a hotel collapsed Sunday night.
It happened at the Hampton Inn in York just after 9 p.m.
Officers said they arrived to the hotel to find a young boy who was "trapped inside the pool room beneath debris."
They said that person was the only one trapped and that he had died. Officials said they were able to evacuate the remainder of the building and secure the area.
The police department said the cause of the collapse is still under investigation and the Nebraska State Fire Marshal's Office was called to assist.
"The Police Department wishes to extend our deepest condolences to the friends and family of the deceased," said a York police press release.
Officers said it is still under investigation.
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Chadron Fire Chief Branden Martens says a fire Monday evening significantly damaged a house two blocks north of Chadron State College.
Cause of the blaze remains under investigation.
No one was home when the fire was called in after heavy black smoke was seen pouring out and there were no injuries.
Chief Martens says the house suffered relatively little structural damage, but that there was a great deal of damage inside from both smoke and fire – especially in the living room and an adjacent bedroom.
While crews were still battling the house fire, a call came in of a wildfire south of Hwy 20 about 2 miles east of Chadron near South Slim Buttes Road.
As the house fire was contained, some of those units were released to battle the wildfire – which burned about 2 acres and was caused by lightning. Crews remained on the scene overnight.
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A dog was found dead after a fire started at an Omaha home Sunday afternoon.
In a news release, fire investigators said the fire started near 38th and G streets around 3:15 p.m. Crews found smoke and flames pouring from a second-story window on the front of the house. Investigators said the smoke was so thick inside it was nearly impossible to see, and they found the fire in a bedroom.
Four adults and five children safely escaped. The Red Cross was called in to help.
In the report, fire investigators said the fire was "accidental" and said a child playing with fire started the blaze. They added people inside the home were alerted to the fire when the smoke detector went off.
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A home in Norfolk has major damage after an early morning fire on Monday.
According to Norfolk Fire and Rescue at 1:57 a.m. on July 4, the rescue team was sent to the 1200 block of West Madison Avenue for a smell of smoke in the kitchen.
When crews arrived they found light smoke in the kitchen.
It took approximately firefighters and 3 rigs about 30 minutes to control the fire and another 60 minutes to overhaul the structure and investigate the cause, according to NFR.
The cause of the fire was determined to be electrical, it sustained $10,000 of damage to the structure and $1,000 to the contents of the home.
Hadar Fire and Rescue and Norfolk Police Division assisted during the incident.
No injuries were reported.
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