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| The driver of a Toyota pickup truck, who declined to be identified, watches the vehicle burn on the side of Southbound U.S. 321 near the Hardin Road exit on Sunday November 25, 2012. The man pulled over and helped his two children and their mother out of the smoking truck before it became engulfed in flames. |
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Nothing to do but watch
Webb St. Shooting
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| People who are reportedly family members of the victim console one another at the scene where a woman was shot and killed and another injured at 1655 N. Webb St. on Wednesday March 28, 2012. |
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| Gastonia Police tackle a man identified by relatives as Toshawn Adams after he charged through police tape chasing after another man during a small riot that broke out after a large crowd of onlookers had gathered at the scene on N. Webb Street. |
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| Gastonia Police detain a man who took part in a small riot at the scene. |
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| Two people console one another at the scene. |
A nice evening for arson
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| Firefighters asses the situation after arriving at 303 Lowell Ave. just off of Wilkinson Blvd. near McAdenville to find a mobile home fully engulfed in flames on Friday March 23, 2012. McAdenville, Lowell, New Hope and Belmont Fire Departments responded to the blaze, which was brought under control quickly with no injuries. Gaston County Police were called to the residence earlier in the day for a domestic, and the fire marshall is now indicating the blaze may be arson. |
Sometimes preparedness pays off. Friday night I had just gotten into my car to leave work when I heard a structure fire dispatched. The address caught my attention. It's the same address where police were called out to a domestic a few hours earlier.
This could be interesting, I though.
And, as luck would have it, I pulled up on this fire right behind the first fire engine. I was standing there camera ready as they assessed the situation (above) and began fighting the fire (below).
It's a good thing too; mobile homes fast. It was probably less than 25 minutes from when the first dispatch about the call came out to when the fire was more or less under control.
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| Firefighters begin attacking the blaze. |
Ashes
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| A family photo lies in the ashes of a mobile home on River Loop Road just outside Belmont that was destroyed by fire on Sunday December 11, 2011. Five people were seriously injured due to smoke inhalation. |
Junkyard Dogs
I spotted these two mischievous, I almost want to say demented looking, dogs while taking pictures at a home where police ar investigating the deaths of a number of dogs found dead at a home on Mitchem Road near Ranlo on Thursday October 13, 2011.
South Point Homicide
Trey Gercak consoles Allison McCall, right, and a Gaston County Police officer talks with McCall's mother as police investigate the death of McCall's sister, Christina McCall, in front of the home at 129 Midwood Lane near Belmont late Sunday August 28, 2011.
Christina McCall was reportedly ending her relationship with her boyfriend of three years,Franklin Janell White, when he shot and killed her in front of her home where she lived with her parents and teenage son.
White died later Monday morning in a shootout with York County Sheriff's officers who were attempting to arrest him on a warrant for first-degree murder.
Hartford Drive Homicide
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| A family member consoles a woman who made statements indicating that she was the mother of a man found dead at 2102 Hartford Drive off of Hudson Boulevard on Friday June 17, 2011. |
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| Guns drawn, Gastonia police officers prepare to enter and clear a home at 2102 Hartford Drive where a man, covered with a yellow tarp, was found shot in the chest in the front yard just before 10:00pm on Friday June 17, 2011. |
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| Neighborhood children watch as Gastonia police investigate the murder. |
RV vs House
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| A recreational vehicle sits crashed into a the garage of a home at 615 Rosemary Lane on Saturday May 7, 2011. Firefighters were dispatched to the incident that sent one man to Gaston Memorial Hospital with non life threatening injuries at 8:15 p.m. on Friday. |
Up in Smoke
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| Firefighters battle a fire on the roof of a building at National Gypsum on Drywall Drive in Mount Holly on Saturday April 16, 2011. |
Two Alarm Fire
Firefighters from eight departments battled a commercial blaze at Roseberry's Salvage Building Supplies at 215 Davis Heights Drive on Saturday January 8, 2011. Read the full story at gastongazette.com
Goble Street Fire
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| A firefighter lifts a burning trash can from the remains of an unoccupied house on Goble Street that burned to the ground around midnight on Saturday October 23, 2010. |
Crane vs House
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| A firefighter walks past the wreckage of a 70-ton construction crane that fell onto a house at 1212 Oakwood Avenue on Thursday October 21, 2010. Crews contracted through Denton's Tree Service were using the 140 foot boom to remove a large tree on the side of the home when the crane tipped over and fell onto the house. |
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| EMS personnel take a worker from Denton's Tree Service to an ambulance after the crane collapsed. The worker was reportedly a tree climber working to cut sections of a large tree that were being removed by the crane, and when the crane began to collapse in his direction he jumped or slid down the tree sustaining non life threatening injuries. |
Fatal Fire
Emergency responders tend to Alicia Addie Ledford, 24, and two of her children Brianna Marie Reyman, 6, left, and Kaylie Ann Reyman, 1, outside their home on Millon Street in Gastonia on Thursday Sept. 16, 2010.
A fast-spreading fire engulfed the family's home, killing the children's 73-year-old grandmother and sending the remaining six members of the family to the hospital. Grandfather Bernard Cornelius Reyman, 75, and a third child Quentin Alexander Reyman, 4, below, were listed in critical condition at the University of North Carolina Hospital's burn center in Chapel Hill.
Firefighter Saves Puppy
Rocky Mount firefighter Frank Bandy tends to a puppy rescued from a burning mobile home on Biltmore Place early Sunday. After more than 15 minutes of effort, Bandy and other first responders were able to revive the motionless animal.
Sunset Crash
Fire and EMS personnel attend to individuals injured Tuesday in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Sunset Avenue and South Pine Street.
According to police at the scene, a white Chevrolet Blazer occupied by three adults and two children was believed to be traveling on Sunset Avenue when it ran a red light and was struck by a red Chevrolet Cavalier occupied only by the driver. Several individuals were transported to Nash General Hospital with unknown injuries.
Wilkins Shooting
Tammy Batts, center, is comforted by friends after the body of her friend Tony Wilkins, 41, was brought out of an apartment at 520 Cascade Avenue where Wilkins was shot and killed Wednesday.
Hit & Run
An N.C. Highway Patrolman records evidence at the scene where a man was struck by a vehicle shortly before 4 a.m. Sunday on Greenway Street in Alamance County. Witnesses at the scene said a woman in a white Mazda hit her boyfriend and drove off. The victim suffered head injuries and was flown by rescue helicopter to UNC Hospital.
Derailed Plans
Ashley Hinton from Warrenton rests on a cart on the platform at the Rocky Mount Train Station around 11:00 p.m. on June 11 after waiting since 2:30 p.m. for a train to Charlotte that was delayed due to a freight train derailment roughly 20 miles North of Rocky Mount.
It was wet today in Rocky Mount
Losse Phillips surveys flood waters, roughly 6 feet deep in places, behind his Beechwood Court home on Monday that he describes as the worst flooding he's seen in five years. Phillips, who's house was raised several feed after Hurricane Floyd, escaped serious property damage, but predicted his neighbor's partially submerged car would not be as fortunate.
Locked Out
Layvonne McAuley, a longtime worker at the QVC Rocky Mount, inc. distribution center, discusses her concerns about the recent 401K dispute workers have had with the company at a flea market on Kingsboro Road. Many of the companies workers found themselves locked out when they came to work this week with little explanation from the company.
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