2 Killed in Kansas City (KS) Fire

From The Kansas City Star:

An early morning fire swept through a Kansas City, Kan., house, killing a 70-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy.

The two were pulled from separate upstairs bedrooms by firefighters and rescuers performed CPR on them outside the house before taking them to a hospital in critical condition, said Deputy Chief Kevin Shirley, a spokesman for the Kansas City, Kan., Fire Department.

The woman, Naomi Denham, was pronounced dead at the hospital. The boy, Javeon Denham, died a little while later, Shirley said.

They both died from smoke inhalation and burns suffered in the fire, Shirley said. Firefighters said the two were related, but they didn’t know if the woman was the boy’s aunt or grandmother.

KS Pet Food Plant Burns for Fourth Straight Day

From The Wichita Eagle:

Firefighters could only watch as a pet food company building continued to burn through its fourth day Monday.

"We have crews on scene, but they're not able to do active firefighting," Capt. Stuart Bevis of the Wichita Fire Department said. "They're only able to put water on the fire... from a distance."

The four-story shipping and packing area of the TreatCo plant appeared like a smokestack with windows, creating a haze over the area near Broadway and 21st Street.

The fire, which began Thursday and appeared to ignite again Friday, left firefighters wondering when it might burn itself out.

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KS Firefighter Among the Injured in Apparatus-Car Wreck

A Soldier Township (KS) firefighter was injured along with three civilians in a apparatus vs. car accident:

Emergency dispatchers received a call at 4:43 p.m. about a Soldier Township Fire Department vehicle being involved in a wreck at N.W. 46th and Topeka Boulevard.

A firefighter, the driver and only person in the engine, was responding to a fire alarm in the 8000 block of N.E. Sherman Road, He was driving east on N.W. 46th and collided with a Ford Mustang that was traveling south on N.W. Topeka Boulevard, said Sgt. Danny Lotridge.

Two of the three occupants of the Mustang, who were Seaman High School students, had to be extricated from the vehicle. The driver and back-seat passenger were transported to a Topeka hospital with injuries not considered to be life-threatening. The front-seat passenger of the Mustang was transported to a Topeka hospital with injures described as serious, Gilchrist said.

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