JOPLIN FIRE DEPT NEVER REST EVEN ON MOTHER’S DAY
• Responding to 30 calls on Mother's Day according to records• Thank you to our tipsters – Paula, Robert, Amber, Toni, Photog Gregg and others who let us know about this fire – you are Joplin News First!
(64801) – Our reporter, Shannon Becker, arrived moments after Joplin Fire Department thanks to our tipsters and you can hear Joplin Firemen breaking out the windows in the upper floor … amazing LIVE! video of our first responders at work!
Joplin Fire Department posts on their FB:
“On Sunday, May 13th at 1:01 PM, Ladder 1C, Rescue 3C, Engine 2C, Engine 3C, Battalion 1C, and Engine 4C responded to 620 S. Moffet for a reported structure fire. Units arrived to find a three story vacant dwelling with smoke coming from the attic.
Personnel entered the structure performing a search for occupants and an attack on the fire. No occupants were found in the structure and the fire was contained to the third floor and attic space.
There were no injuries and the fire remains under investigation with the Joplin Fire Marshall and JPD. Joplin fire was assisted by Metro Emergency Transport System/METS and Joplin Police Department.
Sunday was a busy Mother’s Day for C shift personnel responding to 30 emergency calls.”
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