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State Street apartment house burns in overnight fire; firefighter injured, 5 residents displaced

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Five people were displaced after a three-apartment house on State Street caught fire overnight, New Orleans firefighters said Thursday morning. A firefighter was injured while battling the blaze. The fire at 2433-35 State Street was reported at 12:55 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 10, and the first firefighters arrived six minutes later to find a two-story masonry veneer multi-unit residence fully engulfed in heavy smoke and fire. The fire had already spread to the second floor of the residence.

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Man critically injured, store gutted by two-alarm blaze in Irish Channel

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A fire that broke out Thursday night in the Irish Channel left one man critically injured, the New Orleans Fire Department reports. An emergency call at 8:51 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 3, reported a “fire with possible persons trapped” at the corner of Constance and First streets. Dispatched at 8:52 p.m., the first New Orleans Fire Department company arrived at 2372 Constance St. at 8:56 p.m. and found a small corner grocery store already heavily involved.

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Eight people displaced after three-alarm house fire ravages Lyons Street home

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A house on Lyons Street was heavily damaged in a fire that broke out late Tuesday night, New Orleans fire officials said. The fire was first reported to 911 at 11:26 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 27), and firefighters arrived six minutes later to find the blaze at 817-19 Lyons Street already sending flames through the rear roof of the wood-framed, camel-backed duplex, according to a NOFD report. Police informed firefighters that all the homes’ residents were already safe and accounted for, so additional firefighters were called at 11:47 p.m. and 12:31 a.m. Wednesday to help prevent the spread of the fire to houses next door, the report states. A total of 55 firefighters brought the blaze under control at 1:42 a.m., the report states.

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Two-alarm fire reported at former Bohn Motor Co. building on South Broad

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New Orleans firefighters responded to a reported two-alarm fire at the former Bohn Ford building on South Broad Street, New Orleans Fire Department officials said late Monday morning (Nov. 26). pic.twitter.com/I8WgARwPjI
— NOFD (@NOLAFireDept) November 26, 2018

At 10:10 a.m., the New Orleans Fire Department (NOFD) was dispatched on a report of a building fire in the 2700 block of South Broad Ave.  NOFD Fire Operations personnel arrived at 10:15 a.m. and encountered the three-story commercial structure with its rear third-floor already heavily involved. This prompted the request for second-alarm at 10:19 a.m.
The structure involved, the old Bohn Ford Motor Co. at 2700 S. Broad, was under renovation with construction personnel on site at the time of the fire.

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Large home burns on Freret Street

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A large, multi-unit home on Freret Street caught fire Friday morning, but New Orleans firefighters were able to extinguish it quickly enough to save the structure and no injuries were reported, authorities said. The fire was reported at 7:44 a.m. at the corner of Freret and First streets, and firefighters were on the scene within three minutes, said New Orleans Fire Department Superintendent Tim McConnell. The interior was partly under construction, but the building should be salvageable, he said. “It was a good, quick response by our units,” McConnell said. “It’s got some fire damage, but they got it under control very quickly.”