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President Joe Biden was briefed on the shooting and spoke with Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles to express his condolences and support for the community. The neighborhood, of one– and two-story, brick homes and small trimmed lawns, is very safe, said Alex Rivera, who lives on a street nearby. Rissa Reign was cleaning her house when she heard the first shots ring out. There was a pause, then a second set of shots and then a third. After the home was cleared, the helicopter pilot said he couldn’t show the front lawn of the home because the scene was too graphic and disturbing. "Your father, your husband, your friend, your neighbor ... and today they're not going home," she said.
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I also want to commend the heroic efforts by the Charlotte Fire Department, putting their lives on the line to help rescue 15 individuals. This is a demonstration of what serving the community is all about. The chief said investigators aren't sure what set off the blaze and haven't been able to do a thorough investigation of the trailer. Investigators think the fire started in a trailer used to spray insulation into the building's walls, Johnson said. Looking back at past five-alarm fires in Charlotte's history, a storage building was destroyed by a five-alarm fire in southwest Charlotte in July 2022.
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The city's police chief announced Monday night that a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer who had been wounded, Joshua Eyer, had also died. More than 90 firefighters were called to battle a massive fire at an apartment complex that was under construction near SouthPark Mall Thursday. The fire started shortly after 9am on Liberty Row Drive.
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Flames and smoke billowed from the condos and several crews and fire engines were at the scene fighting the blaze. CHARLOTTE — Police are investigating after someone died in a massive condominium fire that left much of Uptown Charlotte surrounded in a cloud of smoke Tuesday afternoon. The two men killed in a massive construction fire in SouthPark have been positively identified. The Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner’s Office says Demonte Sherrill and Ruben Holmes were both killed in the fire. Within hours of the fire breaking out, firefighters said 15 people were rescued, but two were unaccounted for.
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“Losing a deputy, losing task force officers is like losing a family member because quite frankly, they are family members,” Ronald L. Davis, the director of the U.S. Marshals Service, said at a news conference on Tuesday. A second person then started pumping bullets from inside the home and some of the officers who rushed to the scene to rescue the first wave of downed officers were wounded, Jennings added.
More than 90 firefighters 'heroically' rescued 15 workers from massive South Park fire
"The fire spread rapidly," Johnson said at the news conference Friday. According to its website, Modera SouthPark is a wood-frame, podium-style community consisting of twin buildings that make up more than 200 apartment homes. Charlotte fire said while they were battling the blaze, they had several "Maydays," which means crews were either trapped or had access issues when escaping.
As he backed away to safety, officers could be seen rushing at least one injured colleague from the scene. Medic confirmed one person was taken to the hospital with serious injuries and another with minor injuries. Dozens of firefighters utilized at least two ladder trucks to battle the blaze on Graham Street, which was blocked off between Sixth and 10th streets.
Firefighters in North Carolina rescued at least 15 people including a crane operator Thursday after a five-alarm fire involving injuries broke out at a construction site near downtown Charlotte. Witnesses and social media video described spectacularly high flames, leaping 50 feet in the air. The fire was mostly extinguished as of noon, though firefighters were still spraying hot spots.
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(WBTV) - The Charlotte Fire Department has identified the two men killed in the massive construction fire in south Charlotte’s SouthPark neighborhood last week. A foam spraying machine caught fire and spread to the floors above, a construction worker told Channel 9. Speaking outside the smoking building, the fire quickly engulfed the site even as workers fled.
"As a construction site is open a lot of wood is exposed, the fire moved very rapidly," a Charlotte Fire Department said during a news conference. WCNC Charlotte crews could see large smoke clouds and flames shooting hundreds of feet into the air from the area of Barclay Downs Drive and Fairview Road as they were driving to the scene. Charlotte Fire asked anyone unable to locate family members who were working at the construction site to call 911.
The identification of the two people found at the scene had not been publicly released, and notification of next of kin, will be done by the medical examiner. Quiroja said many of the workers are without their jobs and their tools, since they were forced to leave those behind when they rushed out. “They started getting out, they started screaming ‘get out, get out because the building is on fire,’” he described to Sáenz. He described what happened when news of the fire spread. Sáenz spoke with Alejandro Quiroja, who was working on the building’s metal framing on the first floor.
Chase White was shot in Tucson, Arizona, by a man wanted for stalking local law enforcement officers, the agency said. Police in North Carolina say several officers on a task force trying to serve a warrant in Charlotte, North Carolina, have been struck by gunfire Monday afternoon. Seeing Hughes as an “imminent deadly threat” officers fired on the suspect, who was later pronounced dead at the scene, according to officials. Four members of law enforcement were shot and killed and four were wounded while they attempted to serve two warrants in Charlotte, North Carolina, police said Monday. In July 2016, four police officers and one transit officer were killed in downtown Dallas after an armed sniper opened fire during a demonstration against fatal shootings by the police. The police killed the gunman with an explosive sent by a remote-controlled robot.
Fifteen people, including a crane operator, were rescued by firefighters Thursday. The two people who died in the 2,000-degree fire were believed to be on the sixth floor of a building before flames tore through the area, officials said. A construction worker on the scene of the massive fire told WCNC Charlotte that he and his crew were working in the building before the massive blaze. He said the 7-story building was set to become a 239-unit luxury multifamily community, known as Modera SouthPark.
Eight officers were hit with gunfire and transported to local hospitals. More than 100 rounds littered the scene, said Chief Johnny Jennings of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police. He added that it was not clear how many rounds had been fired by the suspect and how many by the at least 12 officers who returned fire. Officials said on Tuesday that the man who killed four officers trying to serve arrest warrants on him was armed with a powerful AR-15-style rifle and a 40-caliber handgun. “Today we lost some heroes who were out simply trying to keep our community safe,” Jennings said at a news conference.
He later offered his condolences to the families and co-workers in the "brutal attack." Police were eventually able to clear the home, Jennings said. Two people inside, one of them 17 years old, were detained as persons of interest. "It was just last month I was in this very room congratulating Officer Eyer for becoming officer of the month in April," Police Chief Johnny Jennings said.
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