1 escapes bedroom fire
The Journal Gazette
One adult escaped a bedroom fire that moderately damaged a Chippewa Trail home this morning, Fort Wayne firefighters said.
No one was injured.
Firefighters were called to 5216 Chippewa Trail about 11:15 a.m. and found heavy smoke coming from the two-story home, the Fort Wayne Fire Department said in a statement. Firefighters found a fire in a second-floor bedroom and controlled it within about 15 minutes.
An electric space heater had been plugged in to an extension cord, the statement said.
Fort Wayne police, the Three Rivers Ambulance Authority, Neighborhood Code Enforcement and Indiana Michigan Power assisted.
AUBURN — An hour-long chase that eventually sped through Auburn streets ended with a crash around 4 p.m. Jan. 12 on Tonkel Road, about three miles south of the DeKalb-Allen
Why a fire took the lives of a mother and her two daughters is still undetermined, according to the Allen County coroner. The fire reported at 5 a.m. .
Police/Fire
Journal Gazette
A man killed himself at Westwind Apartments north of Franke Park after barricading himself in his home and firing a gun, police said.
About 8 p.m. Tuesday, the unidentified man was reportedly threatening to shoot people inside the apartment building at 2200 Point West Drive, said Chris Felton, Fort Wayne Police Department public information officer.
Officers had arrived at the building and tried to talk to him. As they evacuated the building, they could hear the armed man continue with his threats to shoot officers and others.
Officers fired tear gas into the apartment in an attempt to get the man to stop shooting, but gunshots continued, police said.