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On December 15, 2021, the Midwestern U.S. state of Kansas was met with strong and damaging winds caused by the December 2021 Midwest derecho and tornado outbreak, which produced dust storms and multiple wildfires. An estimated 163,000 acres (66,000 ha) burned on the first day wildfires spawned due to dry fuel and strong wind gusts reaching up ...
The owner of Wichita’s new Popeye’s at 29th and Maize said a weekend fire could have been worse if an unknown “hero” hadn’t spotted it and called it in to 911. The fire left no lasting ...
April 5, 2024 at 1:43 PM. The unhealthy air quality Wichita is seeing Friday from a prescribed burn in the Flint Hills will be followed Saturday with strong winds with gusts as high as 65 mph. The ...
A Wichita firefighter searches through the window of an apartment complex where a fire killed a woman and injured three other people on Oct. 13. (Courtesy photo/Wichita Fire Department)
Richard "Rick" Lasky is an emergency services consultant, author, motivational speaker, current fire chief of the Estes Valley Fire District in Estes Park, Colorado and former fire chief of the Lewisville, Texas Fire Department aswell as the Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Fire Department. Originally from the Chicago area, Lasky worked in various ...
The home in the 2400 block of East Shadybrook was one of two damaged by fire involving illegal fireworks in Wichita and the only one that was a complete loss. Firefighters estimate the damage at ...
0. On 16 January 1965, a U.S. Air Force Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in the central United States, in a neighborhood in north-eastern Wichita, Kansas, after taking off from McConnell Air Force Base. [1] This resulted in the deaths of all seven crew members on board the aircraft and an additional twenty-three people on the ground. [2] [3]
Paoly Bedeski, 22, died in an east Wichita apartment fire on Oct. 13, 2023. The Wichita Firefighters’ Union says she could have been saved if Sedgwick County 911 had handled the situation ...