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It happened at 12405 Keating Drive in he Dale City area of Woodbridge around 4:30 p.m.

The two neighboring homes at 13403 and 13407 Keating Drive had some damage because the fire spread. No one was home at the time of the fire, although a dog was rescued from one of the homes by firefighters.

During the firefight six firefighters were treated for heat related injuries; one was transported to the hospital for chest pain.

Responding to 800 N. 22nd St were Quint 11, Truck 1, Quint 8, Quint 15, Rescue 1, and Battalion 1. Quint 11 arrived on the scene and reported a two-story single family with heavy smoke visible from all sides of the second floor.

Walker said that the service on Thursday night estimated the fire, located around Stone Coal Gap on Caldwell Mountain, was burning around 100 acres. Now they believe the fire, caused by lightning, to be larger, she said.

An accurate size of the fire is unavailable until rangers survey the land by helicopter, Walker said. But the exponential growth is unexpected, she said.

That portion of Broad Street was closed for hours as firefighters worked to get the fire under control.

The recent heat wave made fighting the blaze a challenge. Richmond Fire Department Lt. Mike Oprandy says, “We’ve been in a heat wave for the past couple of weeks, and we’ve had a couple of multiple alarm fires. So we are well rehearsed in rehab and getting the misting fans and water in place so our guys can rest and get re-hydrated. “

Sergeant Rob Carpentieri says trooper P.C. Gardner heard the UPS truck drive over the rumble strips just before 7 a.m. Monday and dove into the passengers seat moments before the truck hit his cruiser. The tractor trailer then hit a guardrail and went down an embankment.

A home was heavily damaged by fire this morning in the 9600 block of 13th View Street. No one was injured, fire officials said.

Heavy smoke was coming out of the home when firefighters arrived on the scene at about 4:30 a.m., said Jack Goldhorn, Norfolk Fire-Rescue spokesman. Debris inside the home made the fire difficult to fight, but the flames were under control about an hour after firefighters arrived, he said.

The blaze is under investigation.

Paul W. Mauger, who has been chief of Fire and Emergency Medical Services since March 2005, will retire Sept. 1.

He has served with the department for 31 years, first as a dispatcher. He was appointed interim chief in November 2004 after Stephen A. Elswick retired, and he was named chief in March 2005.

No one was injured when fire gutted a house on Hopkins Road in Rocky Mount Saturday night.

The homeowner, Gracie Cundiff, was visiting her daughter at the time of the incident, according to Franklin County Fire Marshal Bennie Russell. Cundiff, 78, lives alone.

Neighbors reported the fire around 11 p.m. Saturday, Russell said.

Thanks to Wayne’s call to the state, something is now being done about the dangerous situation.

Chief Ronnie Erb, Namozine Volunteer Fire Department says “This to me is very dangerous. That’s one reason you know i’d like to see you help out and get it fixed.”

Kay Knight the homeowner told CBS 6 Monday, she and her husband thought the builder would take care of it, “We got the builder out here and he basically told me, you know, there was nothing he could do, that he wasn’t going to do anything else to it, and it was too costly. So right off the bat, we were stuck.”

The family thought they heard a shot-gun blast. Then, smelled smoke.

Duane Stone, whose home caught on fire, says his neighbor saw exactly what happened.

Sixteen-year-old Malcolm Pezzano was struck as he was bent down to tie his shoe.

Waverly Police are still investigating what happened but, believe Pezzano may have thought he had more time than he did.

NOAA says the damage path was 20 yards wide and a quarter mile in length. Most of the damage was branches and trees scattered across neighborhoods.

At alternate points during the night, Bedford County, the City of Bedford, Campbell County and Appomattox County were all under tornado warnings, along with surrounding counties.

Best has studied in his city office over lunch breaks and taken leave from work to cram for finals. There have been weekend trips to the Outer Banks with a laptop but no real family vacations.

Police say a tractor trailer side-swiped a car near Ladysmith in Caroline County yesterday morning, causing the truck to burst into flames.

Two people in the car were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The driver of the truck was not injured.

The fire started about 2 PM Tuesday afternoon, near an electrical panel in an office suite on the second floor.

One person who was working in the area received minor burn injuries.

Crews were able to put out the fire before any damage was done.

Rockingham County firefighter Bryan Smith only has pictures to show him what happened when he was hit by a car while attending to an accident on Interstate-81 April 7, 2007.

“My nose was completely crushed. I had some teeth knocked out. Fractured C6 vertebrae in my neck. A fractured left arm. My shattered elbow,” says Smith describing his injuries. The list goes on from there.