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    July 15, 2016
    Firefighters extinguish attic fire in downtown Wadena
    A fire that started in a downtown Wadena attic Tuesday night was quickly extinguished, with no additional damage reported. The Wadena Police Department was dispatched to 206 ½ Jefferson Street South at 9:39 p.m. Tuesday, June 5 for a possible attic fire. Officers arrived to the scene...
    News/localJuly 15, 2016 - 12:08am
    May 30, 2016
    A car burned after a gas pump explosion at the Cenex in Detroit Lakes Monday night.
    Gas pump explodes at Detroit Lakes Cenex
    A gas pump explosion at the Detroit Lakes Cenex had emergency crews scrambling early Monday evening. Just before 5 p.m. the Detroit Lakes Fire...
    News/regionMay 30, 2016 - 12:08am
    May 3, 2016
    Every county in Minnesota is under some type of burning restrictions today, Tuesday.
    No burning today as DNR issues Red Flag Warning
    Wadena County is included in a Red Flag Warning issued by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for today, Tuesday. No burning permits...
    News/localMay 3, 2016 - 3:43pm
    January 30, 2016
    Wadena and Deer Creek firemen fought a blaze Monday afternoon at a rural residence three miles southwest of Wadena in Compton Township. A one-story rambler and a metal garage were engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived. The fire was reported by a passing motorist.
    Fire destroys residence in Compton Township
    A house and garage owned by Randy Mills of Wadena was destroyed by fire Monday afternoon in Compton Township of Otter Tail County. The Otter...
    News/localJanuary 30, 2016 - 12:10am
    December 12, 2015
    Reward being offered for suspected arson at Alber's Realty
    The State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating a suspected arson case at Alber's Realty in Wadena. The Wadena Police Department, along with the State Fire Marshal's Office, is offering a $5,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for a fire...
    News/localDecember 12, 2015 - 12:08am
    April 19, 2015
    Wadena fireman Shawn Swenson pulled insulation aside to get at a smoldering fire in a building owned by Timber Roots last Thursday afternoon. The minor fire was confined to one building. It began when sparks from a grinder found a small crack in the ceiling and ignited the building's insulation.
    Timber Roots fire: one building damaged
    News/localApril 19, 2015 - 12:10am
    April 18, 2015
    A fire grew quickly east of Aldrich Saturday evening. Four fire departments were battling the blaze. (Photo by AshLee Ervin-Tupper)
    Fast moving fire contained southeast of Aldrich
    Several fire departments and the DNR worked much of Saturday night and into the early morning Sunday to contain a fire southeast of Aldrich....
    News/localApril 18, 2015 - 12:10am
    March 23, 2015
    Barn lost to fire Saturday
    A barn was a total loss after a fire Saturday afternoon in Orton Township, Wadena County. The Wadena County Sheriff's Office responded to a structure/barn fire on Bunny Hill Road in Orton Township about 4:25 p.m. Saturday, March 14. Deputies arrived on scene and learned the barn's...
    News/localMarch 23, 2015 - 12:08am
    October 11, 2014
    New York Mills, Perham and Bluffton fire de-partments responded to an early morning fire at a trailer home in New York Mills on Monday. The home is a complete loss.
    Blaze destroys unoccupied NYM home
    No one was home when a fire destroyed a New York Mills trailer early Monday morning. According to the Otter Tail County Sheriff's Office,...
    News/localOctober 11, 2014 - 12:00am
    August 17, 2014
    Fire destroys unoccupied vehicle
    Fire destroyed an unoccupied vehicle Monday morning northeast of Sebeka. The Wadena County Sheriff's Office responded to a report of a vehicle fully engulfed in flames on County Road 23 near 280th Street Northeast. The Sebeka Fire Department extinguished the fire, which caused...
    News/localAugust 17, 2014 - 12:00am
    July 4, 2014
    Rural Todd County home burns to the ground
    Fire flattened a rural Todd County home Friday. The owners, Rich and Connie Runston, were camping near Brainerd when they got word their home northeast of Bertha was a total loss. "There was nothing left," Rich Runston said. "The only thing we've got are the clothes we brought...
    News/localJuly 4, 2014 - 12:00am
    May 23, 2014
    Derek Knowles’ home barely missed the inferno that roared through his property one year ago. The tree cleanup has begun. (Sarah Smith/Park Rapids Enterprise)
    After year of rebuilding, scars of wildfire remain
    PARK RAPIDS, Minn. -- "She was a hot one!" Russ Knowles said as he recalled watching a raging wildfire blow past his Wadena County home, taking...
    News/regionMay 23, 2014 - 12:00am
    April 15, 2014
    Wadena County fire burns several acres in state forest, causes minimal damage
    A grass fire burnt several acres near a home in Lyons State Forest Tuesday afternoon, searing the vinyl siding off of a shed but doing no other...
    News/localApril 15, 2014 - 6:26pm
    April 7, 2014
    Fire on Jefferson
    Luke Manderschied of the Wadena County Sheriff's Department talks with a Wadena fireman from the window of a second story apartment Monday afternoon...
    News/localApril 7, 2014 - 3:58pm
    March 1, 2014
    FIrefighers work to extinguish a house fire at the southern edge of Wadena Saturday morning. Three residents and their pets escaped unharmed, but the Wadena fire chief Dean Uselman called the structure "a total loss."
    Family survives Wadena house fire
    A single father and his two teenage children escaped a fire that destroyed their home along Highway 71 on the southern edge of Wadena Saturday...
    News/localMarch 1, 2014 - 7:59pm
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