*** MAN DIES IN KC-MO HOUSE FIRE ****** A man reportedly "trapped" in a wheelchair died in a house fire in Kansas City's East Bottoms early Saturday.
The fire alarm sounded at 2:50am- sending five KC-MO fire companies to the fire in the 3200 block of Nickolson. When the first fire company arrived 6 minutes later- they reported only "light smoke" issuing from the 1-story structure.
Two occupants- an adult woman and a child escaped- the wheelchaired man in a back bedroom did not. The woman suffered minor smoke inhalation.
Fire investigators say the victim was probably smoking in bed- ruled as the cause of the fire.
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*** WOMAN DEAD IN OVERLAND PARK-KS APARTMENT FIRE ***
*** A woman was found dead after a small fire in the bedroom of her apartment in Overland Park early Saturday morning.
The alarm went out at 3:03am to the 7500 block of West 106th Street. First-arriving crews found only light smoke in a lower hallway.
The alarm went out at 3:03am to the 7500 block of West 106th Street. First-arriving crews found only light smoke in a lower hallway.
The fire was extingushed quickly- with damage limited to the woman victim's apartment.
No other injuries were reported with a cuse of the fire to be determined..
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** Shooting In KC-KS Leaves Man In Serious Condition **
... The shooting was reported at 1:41am at a popular Hispanic tavern at 48 Kansas Avenue.
There- the police found a "25-year-old" man with a gunshot wound in the back of his head. He was taken by KC-KS FD-EMS to an area medical trauma center in at least serious condition..
Police reported witness desciptions of "2 Hispanic male suspects- who left- possibly toward KC-MO- in a silver and black Chevy Tahoe..
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** KC-KS House Damaged By Fire **
... Damage was reported to the attic and roof areas of a home in the 4000 block of Oakland after a 3:53am fire.
No one was injured in the lived-in house- all occupants escaped safely.
The cause of this fire was ruled to be electrical.
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<><><> OVERNIGHT WEATHER <><><>
Temperatures held in the mid 30's to near 40-degrees early Saturday morning with very light or calm winds.
Sunshine will prevail today before clouds from the next storm system overspreads the MetroRegion later today.
Another in a series of spring storms enters the Region later Sunday- spreading rain and thunderstorms over our area into Monday morning. There could again be some heavy rainfall totals in our Region.
Some severe weather is possible in Arkansas and Oklahoma again later Sunday.
No frosts or freezes around here through next weekend- with yet another storm system affecting the Kansas City MetroRegion next Thursday and Friday- that storm COULD produce severe weather in the MetroRegion.
Temperatures will remain at or slightly below average through the week.
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