Extreme cold spurs rash of fires at homes, businesses

Harmful winter climate over the vacation weekend resulted in a lot of fires at properties and companies all through the area.

A home fireplace in Benton destroyed a house on Friday night time. No different particulars had been launched.

A motel on North Foremost Road in Hopkinsville was broken in a fireplace on Christmas Day.

Firefighters had been referred to as to the American Inn for smoke contained in the construction and located a fireplace within the attic of a vacant room.

Everybody was in a position to get out of the construction unhurt.

A house in Todd County was severely broken in a fireplace Saturday night time.

The hearth is believed to have began within the kitchen and precipitated extreme injury to the house on Greenville Street.

Nobody was dwelling on the time of the hearth and the trigger was unknown.

A 3-alarm fireplace in southern Illinois leaves a county with out highway tools as extra winter climate is within the forecast.

Sparta Fireplace division responded to the Randolph freeway upkeep facility Saturday morning.

Fireplace was raging contained in the constructing when crews arrived and engulfed all the construction.

The hearth additionally destroyed a number of road-treating vans and snow plows.

Different southern Illinois fires had been reported this weekend at properties in Johnston Metropolis and West Frankfort, and on the White Rabbit Vintage Retailer in Pinckneyville.