Fire

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, at about 4:45 a.m., the New York Mills Fire Department and sheriff's deputies responded to the fire at 535 E. Centennial Dr. in the community...

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 his garage with it. Across the road, his son, Derek, had just lost 1,000 Norway pines close to his home. It was May 14, 2013. A...

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 structural damage. The rural Wadena County blaze (22398 Wilderness Drive) was reported at 3:49 p.m. With the help of a crew from the Minnesota...

Luke Manderschied of the Wadena County Sheriff's Department talks with a Wadena fireman from the window of a second story apartment Monday afternoon at 208 South Jefferson. A report of smoke coming from the window brought emergency personnel to the scene. Firemen found a some cushions...

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 morning. Jim Carter, 36, said he discovered the blaze behind a wall in his kitchen shortly after waking up to a popping sound. After failing...

The Wadena and Bluffton fire departments responded Wednesday afternoon to a fire at 39923 County Highway 75 that Bluffton Fire Chief Ken Theisen...

The Deer Creek and Wadena Fire Departments fought a fire at John Henry Mast's sawmill three miles east of Deer Creek on Monday, in bitterly cold,...

The complete loss of the Tri-County Livestock Auction Barn, one mile west of Motley, by fire Sunday night has not made life any easier for Manager...

PERHAM -- Firefighters and first responders were called to multiple grass fires east of Perham along County Highway 80 (Old Highway 10) near...