VIDEO: Most everyone would agree 2020 was a dumpster fire. A town thought that a dumpster fire was, in fact, the perfect way to say farewell to the past year. “Tonight, we’re basically just saying bye to 2020 in a different way,” Fire Chief Brett Ruff said. “Tonight we are having a literal dumpster fire in Belen,” Mayor Jerah Cordova said.
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The United States started 2021 they way it ended 2020: Setting new records amidst the coronavirus pandemic. The country passed the 20 million mark for coronavirus cases on Friday, setting the mark sometime around noon, according to Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 tracker. The total is nearly twice as many as the next worst country – India, which has 10.
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They say one man's trash is another's treasure. Three homes on High Street in downtown Macon went up in flames on a Wednesday night in 2019, sending five firefighters to the hospital. "It was a house under renovation that wasn't being occupied and it was a pretty bad fire. It totaled that house. It totaled this house," said Andrew Eck while pointing to the remnants of a downtown Macon home.
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Chicago-area industrialist George F. Getz Jr. and his wife, Olive Atwater Getz, were driving through Wilmette, Illinois, when they saw a broken-down fire truck on the side of the road. George casually remarked he would like the 1924, Type 12 American La France fire engine. Considering the Globe Corp.
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King County Prosecutors have charged two men accused of setting the fire on November 14, 2019 that destroyed a large home under construction in unincorporated Auburn after they said they went there to explore what was being built. 20-year-old Ryan Higham and 22-year-old Miguel Kirschnick are both charged with Arson in the First Degree.
- PUB DATE: 1/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13 Seattle