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Fruitland Area Fire Protection District /Facebook)" title="(Source: Fruitland Area Fire Protection District /Facebook)" width="180" style="border: 0px;" /> (Source: Fruitland Area Fire Protection District /Facebook) JACKSON, MO (KFVS) - According to the Fruitland Area Fire Protection District , firefighters were called to the scene of an apartment fire on Woodland Drive in Jackson, Missouri on Tuesday, Aug. 15. Crews got the call around 8:40 p.m. Tuesday and say flames were already showing when they arrived. Back up was then requested. Crews were able to evacuate the apartment and no one was injured. There were four units in the building but the fire was contained to just one. The other three units have smoke damage. Fruitland officials said it was a first alarm structure fire . Jackson Fire and Rescue and the Gordonville Fire Department were on the scene, as well. The cause of the fire is unknown and remains under investigation. Download the K...

Advocates for a code change that would allow taller heavy-timber frames are buoyed by the good performance of mass-timber structures in the first U.S. fire tests on full- scale furnished apartments . “The tests went as expected,” says Stephen DiGiovanni, fire protection engineer for Nevada’s Clark County Dept . of Building and Fire Protection . DiGiovanni, also chairman of the International Code Council ’s 17- member ad hoc committee for tall wood buildings , plans to use the final test report to help justify a code change that would allow  wood frames as tall as 180 ft, depending on building design and use. The report is due out before Jan. 8, the deadline for code-change proposals for the 2021 edition of the International Building Code . IBC currently limits the height of heavy-timber structures to 85 ft. Under the likely code-change proposal, the maximum height for mass timber, fully protected with noncombustible sheathing, would be 180 ft. A height of 120 ft would be allowed fo...

GUILDERLAND, N.Y. -- A fire at a Guilderland Apartment Complex off Western Avenue has displaced 13 residents, including several young children. "A lot of panic, a lot of fire, I thought the whole building was going down," described one resident. Scorching flames lit up the early morning sky Sunday in Guilderland. "People were just waking up, getting out of bed, the call came about 3:30 a.m.," explained Westmere Fire Chief Henry Smith . "Some of the folks that got out of here have no clothing, some have just pajamas they're wearing," said Red Cross volunteer Erik Gebhardt . "I don't even know if they have their travel documents," the resident said. The Red Cross said about a dozen residents lost their homes along with mostly everything inside.  Gebhardt said they were in a "state of shock, it's hard to lose absolutely everything." According to the chief, six units were destroyed in the Regency Park apartment complex , but...

Update: West Nile Virus SOUTH WINDSOR — The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station announced that mosquitoes trapped in 12 towns have tested positive for West Nile virus so far this season. The towns include: Branford, Glastonbury, Greenwich, North Branford, North Stonington, Orange, Plainfield, South Windsor, Stamford, Stratford, West Haven, and Westport. To reduce the risk of being bitten by mosquitoes residents should: Minimize time spent outdoors between dusk and dawn when mosquitoes are most active; be sure door and window screens are tight-fitting and in good repair; wear shoes, socks, long pants, and a long-sleeved shirt when outdoors for long periods of time, or when mosquitoes are more active; clothing should be light colored and made of tightly woven materials that keep mosquitoes away from the skin; use mosquito netting when sleeping outdoors or in an unscreened structure and to protect small babies when outdoors; consider the use of mosquito repellent , accord...

The South Carolina Arts Commission has a lofty goal. This important government agency has set its sights on developing for all of the citizens of our state a “ thriving arts environment , which is essential to quality of life, education, and economic viability.” To that end, the SCAC has long been committed to supporting the work of individual artists. Indeed, for over forty years, annual monetary awards have been granted to those arts and crafts practitioners who have generated work of “ superior artistic merit .” To honor the nearly ninety SCAC Fellows to date and to commemorate the Commission’s fiftieth anniversary , fifteen solo and group exhibitions have been planned across the state for 2017-18. The first of these shows is currently on view at two Columbia venues: the Center for Contemporary Art (701 CCA) and the McMaster Gallery on the USC campus. Because of its more commodious exhibition space , the CCA hosts a larger portion of the pieces that make up “ SC Fellows Part I...