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Fire crews make quick work of late night apartment fire

Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical crews were called to 922 Kentucky Street shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday on a report of a fire inside an apartment. Police arrived on the scene just about 90 seconds after the call was dispatched and they were quickly able to learn that the building had ...

Jefferson County structure fire brought under control

[Operation 100 News report][1] Firefighters from Meriden and at least two nearby townships battled a structure fire just off of Kansas Highway 4 on the outskirts of town early Saturday. The call was dispatched around 12:10 a.m. after a caller reported fire from a building in the 7100 ...

Power restored after more than two hour outage in eastern Lawrence

**Power was restored to all customers around 6 a.m. Sunday.** Around 4 a.m., Westar Energy was showing just over 900 customers without electricity this morning in Lawrence. The outage came about twenty minutes after a Lawrence police officer reported hearing a small explosion and seeing ...

Woman suffers smoke inhalation during two-alarm fire

[Operation 100 News report][1] Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical crews were called to an apartment building fire in the 200 block of Pinecone Drive early Saturday. The fire was reported just before 2:20 a.m. at 269 Pinecone Drive. A resident reported black smoke coming from the second ...

Update: Saturday morning accident killed one, injured another on the turnpike

[Updated Tuesday - **Missouri woman killed in Kansas Turnpike accident identified**][1] Updated: Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 6:42 a.m. The Kansas Highway Patrol is investigating following an early morning accident that took the life of one person and injured several others in ...