Raleigh Fire

Glenwood South Open, But Some Restaurants Forced To Close In Aftermath Of Raleigh Fire

... the corner on Jones Street, just a block from the fire that forced restaurants to evacuate Thursday night, owners and managers struggled Friday with the decision of whether they could open. Jones and West streets, which give drivers access to the restaurants, were closed most of Friday. And while pedestrians could park and walk around the yellow tape and barricades, owners and managers knew it might keep customers away. Plus, when a crane fell in the midst of the fire, it landed on phone and cable lines that left some places without a working phone. “People don’t know we’re open,” Brian Amra, one of the owners of Tobacco Road Sports Cafe at the corner of Jones and West street, said Friday afternoon. “They can’t call to see if we’re open. They’re calling our other locations, thank God.”. Thursday night, the restaurant evacuated ...

Local Businesses, Church Helping Feed Raleigh First Responders After 5-alarm Fire

... at the scene handing out pastries and coffee. The downtown location of Chick-fil-A gave out food to first responders until 3 p.m. and the Jersey Mike’s locations on Wake Forest Road, Hillsborough Street and Peace Street also gave out free subs to first responders in uniform. Members of the Edenton Street United Methodist church also went to the scene Friday morning to hand out free food and coffee to firefighters, many of whom were still working to put out hot spots before investigators arrived on scene around noon. “It’s our motto here. That’s what you see on the back of our shirts,’be nice,’ so anytime we have an opportunity to be nice, we really try to be,” said Leigh Holloway with the Edenton Street UMC. There is also help today for businesses impacted by the fire. The Raleigh Chamber tweeted ...

Raleigh Fire Sparks More Urgency To Hire Firefighters In Winston-salem

... 10 buildings. Sawyer says each fire department has its own guidelines for classifying fires. In Winston-Salem, any time there is a a residential fire - 28 personnel arrive on scene along with five engine companies, two truck companies, two battalion chiefs, a rescue unit, a safety officer, and EMS. For a second alarm fire, two more engines are called in which gives them eight additional people. But Sawyer says a “five-alarm” fire usually means one thing for all departments. “The five alarm fire pretty much means all hands on deck, as many people as we can get to rectify the situation,” said Sawyer. “That's a pretty big fire.”. It took more than 130 Raleigh firefighters to put the fire out on Thursday night. To put that into perspective, at any given time, Greensboro has 151 firefighters on the clock. Winston-Salem has 88 but now the city wants to hire more. "We want to always make sure that we hire according to the population and the needs for our city,” said Sabrina Stowe with the ...