Festus, MO (KTRS) A woman is dead following a fire at a mobile home in Festus. Firefighters responded to the burning mobile home on Scenic Lane around 3:30 a.m. Thursday. Upon arrival, firefighters found the woman’s body. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. There’s no word on what may have caused the fire.
Jennings, MO (KTRS) A man is dead following an overnight fire in Jennings. Firefighters were called to a burning home on Murvale Drive around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. The 47-year-old victim was the roommate of the homeowner, who was not there at the time when the fire broke out. Fire officials say it’s believed that the fire…
POCAHONTAS, ILL (KTRS) The Illinois State Fire Marshal’s office is investigating the cause of a fire Wednesday that killed a 4-year-old girl was killed and injured five of her family members in Pocahontas, Illinois, about 40 miles northeast of St. Louis. The EMS chief in nearby Highland, Brian Wilson, said 15-month-old twin girls, a 12-year-old boy…
Spanish Lake, MO (KTRS) A man is dead following an overnight fire in Spanish Lake. Firefighters were called to a burning home along the 11-thousand block of Criterion Avenue at just after 3 a.m. Thursday. When the fire was extinguished, investigators it was determined that an adult male was killed in the fire. He appears…
( KTRS /KTVI) Homicide detectives are investigating a fatal fire that claimed the lives of two parents and their 11-month-old daughter. The family was found dead after a fire early Sunday morning in north St. Louis. The fire broke out around 4:40am Sunday morning in the 4000 block of Elmbank. Firefighters report that the house…
East St. Louis, IL (KTRS) The cause of a fire in East St. Louis that claimed the life of a disabled man is being investigated. Firefighters responded to a burning two story home in the 18-hundred block of Central Wednesday night. The twin brother of the 55-year-old disabled man made it out of the burning…
( KTRS ) Authorities in southwestern Illinois are investigating the cause of a fire that left two people dead. Police in Highland say two 911 calls alerted fire officials and police to smoke coming from a house around 8 a.m. Sunday. Authorities say the house was fully engulfed in flames when police, paramedics and firefighters…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The community is reaching out to help a family who lost three children in house fire in north St. Louis over the weekend. A donation site for the Walnut Park family has been set up at the Wohl Community Center in north St. Louis. Besides monetary donations, items such as clothing…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A space heated in believed to have caused a weekend fire in north St. Louis that claimed the lives of three children. That’s according to fire investigators in Sunday morning’s fire along the 4900 block of Plover Avenue. Two adults and eight children were inside of the burning two-story structure when…
( KTRS ) Authorities are investigating after a body was found among the wreckage of a house fire in Collinsville, IL. Around 2 am Sunday morning the Collinsville 911 center received a call for a house fire. Police arrived on the scene and say the two story home already had flames shooting out from the…