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MARIES COUNTY, Mo. (KMOX/AP) — Six firefighters of the Vienna Fire Department are being treated at local hospitals for moderate to severe burns and cuts from flying debris after responding to a house fire where there was an explosion. The Maries County Sheriffs Office and the Vienna FD are...

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) updated 4:45 p.m. Friday — The mother of the four children injured in Thursday's fire in South St. Louis, has been charged with endangering their welfare. Investigators say 27-year-old Crystal Ford left the children, all under the age of 5, alone in the home for an extended period...

O'FALLON, Mo. (KMOX) — O'Fallon Missouri Police are crediting staff at Liberty High School with stopping a 29-year-old Wright City man from setting himself on fire. The man doused himself with gasoline on the parking lot of the school on Sommers Road around 6:30 this morning. Police say school...

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) -- No one was injured but St. Louis Firefighters were busy after an apparent explosion sparked a two alarm fire in the Ville early Sunday afternoon. It happened in the 4300 block of Cottage -- the apartment building was occupied but no one was injured. It eventually escalated to a...

( KMOX ) - A Washington man is recovering from second- and third-degree burns after he risked his life to save his 8-year-old niece. #BREAKING Aberdeen fire hero Derrick Byrd on rushing back into a burning house to rescue his niece. 6pm on #KOMONews pic.twitter.com/HeHzBN0e7g — Keith Eldridge (@...

(KMOX) - This year, one of the country's biggest, most colorful 4th of July fireworks displays didn't even draw a large crowd. Then again, no one was expecting it to happen. A fire at Davey Jones' Fireworks and the House of Fireworks -- adjoining stores in Fort Mill, South Carolina -- kept...

VERSAILLES, Ky. (AP/KMOX) — Firefighters in Kentucky were still trying to extinguish flaming Jim Beam warehouses filled with about 45,000 barrels of bourbon. According to Accuweather, the warehouses caught fire late Tuesday and on the Fourth of July, firefighters were battling the blaze fueled by...

WASHINGTON PARK, Ill. (KMOX) — If you noticed a big plume of smoke in the area of I-255 and I-64 this morning, you weren't alone. There was a fire at a liquor store in Washington Park. The blaze sent flames and smoke shooting into the sky shortly after 5 a.m. Tankers bringing more water to drown...