Friday, May 24 2013 12:33 PM EDT2013-05-24 16:33:24 GMT
Smith Street between Morris and Ruffner Avenue is closed after a crash sent the utility pole down. The immediate area is blocked as a result.Emergency crews responded to the crash after a man driving
Driver flees crash scene after crash knocks down utility pole in Charleston
Tuesday, May 21 2013 12:18 PM EDT2013-05-21 16:18:28 GMT
Three people were inside this burning home but managed to get out safely.
Firefighters are battling a massive fire in East Bank in Kanawha County. A house on Walnut Street went up in flames around 5:15 a.m. Firefighters said two people were home at the time but managed to
Three escape massive fire in a home on Walnut Street in Kanawha County
Five people were hurt when two rail cars that transport
miners collided in a southeast Ohio mine, authorities said.
Perry County
dispatcher Jeff Wilson said five miners were taken to the hospital after the
accident Wednesday morning. It happened at a Buckingham Coal mine in Corning,
about 55 miles southeast of Columbus
in the area of Wayne National
Forest.
It wasn't clear what caused the crash or how serious
the injuries were. The sheriff's office said two of the injured people were
flown to hospitals.
A phone number for Buckingham Coal rang unanswered
Wednesday after the collision.
A spokesman for Wayne
National Forest confirmed
Buckingham Coal does underground mining of privately held minerals beneath the
forest but said he couldn't confirm whether the crash happened under forest
property.
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