CAMDENTON, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mid-County Fire Protection District is urging boaters get their boats serviced and to follow proper safety protocols after multiple boat fires have occurred since the end of June. Boating incidents this summer included two boat explosions on June 27 and July 8, and a boat fire on July 13. “We probably
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) FEMA has requested that more members of Missouri Task Force 1 to be deployed to Texas to assist with the response to flooding, according to a Monday press release from the Boone County Fire Protection District says. The release says Task Force 1 was upgraded from a Type 3 team to a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A tank used to store flammable liquid blew its top off Route K, sending its top flying into a nearby neighborhood. Fire crews were called to the closed Leatherwood Hills store on Route K at about 2 p.m. for a tank fire. A photo shows four tanks of the sort used to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was set on fire on his porch last month has died. Donovan “Tyler” Baylis died on Monday morning, his mother Nan Oliver told ABC 17 News on Monday afternoon. Baylis was 31. Police had said the man was burned on June 15 in the 1500 block of Paris Road.
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Troop F responded to a boat fire Sunday afternoon at the Lake of the Ozarks. Sgt. Kyle Green with the highway patrol tells ABC 17 News troopers were called around 2:20 in the afternoon to a boat fire at the 10 mile marker of the main channel on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Fire Department battled an early morning fire Sunday, according to a press release from the department. According to the release, crews responded to a call for a residential structure fire at around 12:41 a.m. Sunday on the 800 block of Weathered Rock Road. Firefighters found fire showing from a
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A road just outside of Centralia was shut down on Friday afternoon after a vehicle crashed into a telephone pole. Boone County first responders shut down both directions of North Jay Jay in the 19990 block at 2:58 p.m. Three people were injured – two seriously – in the crash, according
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No one was injured in a fire at a home on Wednesday night in the 1300 block of Godas Circle in northeast Columbia, according to a Thursday press release from the Columbia Fire Department. The release says that firefighters were called at 11:53 p.m. and found a duplex with smoke coming from
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Tuesday marked one year since Boone County Fire Protection District Assistant Fire Chief Matthew Tobben died while saving two people. On July 8, 2024, a rescue boat lost power and capsized near Bear Creek. The boat carried Tobben, Columbia firefighter Derek Abbott and two people they rescued. All four people were thrown
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Columbia Fire Department responded to a structure fire at 808 Washington Road at 7:10 p.m. and quickly put out the fire, with no injuries reported.
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A Columbia man was arrested on Thursday after he allegedly tried to set a house on fire in June.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) There were no injuries reported after first responders had a street blocked off in Fulton on Thursday for a house fire. Fulton fire crews responded to the scene of a house engulfed in flames in the 500 block of West 7th Street just after 7:30 p.m. According to a press release, crews
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services has suspended the permit of a well-known bar after it was severely damaged in a fire on Tuesday. A Food Establishment Inspection report says that the permit for McNally’s Irish Pub and Wise Guys Pizza has been suspended because of fire and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Sections of some downtown Columbia were closed Tuesday morning after a fire occurred at McNally’s Irish Pub. ABC 17 News saw smoke visible from N Sixth Street in Columbia just before 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. A Boone County Joint Communications notification was sent out at 9:18 a.m. alerting about Broadway at Sixth Street
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No injuries were reported in a house fire on Monday morning in the 2700 block of Bluebird Drive in Mexico, Missouri, according to a press release from the Mexico Department of Public Safety. The home’s resident saw smoke coming from the house and called firefighters. The release says that fire was found
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The ambush killing of two firefighters in Idaho on Sunday has left firefighters nationwide shaken.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 35-year-old man suffered moderate injuries after a boat exploded and sank at the Lake of the Ozarks on Friday. A Missouri State Highway Patrol report indicates a 1986 Wellcraft Cabin Cruiser exploded after the driver – a 70-year-old St. Joseph man – started the motor. The 35-year-old man from St. Joseph
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Part of East Business Loop 70 is back open after a fire broke out at a strip mall early Friday morning. The fire started just before 5 a.m., shutting down the roadway between Garth Avenue and Grand Avenue. Columbia Fire Capt. John Card says an MU ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Callaway County family lost an outbuilding in a fire in Callaway County on Wednesday morning. The fire at 2805 Route F near Fulton burned up a storage shed, including a Chevrolet Camaro, was called in a little after 9 a.m., said Millerburg Fire Chief Larry Curtis. Curtis said the fire
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A fire was reported Tuesday in the bathroom of Waynesville Middle School, according to a social media post from the St. Robert Fire Department. The department wrote that it was called around 10 a.m. and found moderate smoke in the building. It found a fire in one of the bathrooms, which was
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