Multi-alarm fire guts store

COLLETON COUNTY – Stations 3, 4, 7, 18, 19, 23 and 26 responded to a commercial structure fire at the P and D Grocery Store located at 27499 Lowcountry Hwy in the Town of Smoaks, Sunday morning 6-December at 0420. Engine 18 arrived to find heavy fire conditions inside the structure and the roof at [...]

Engine 11 back in action

Recommissioned firetruck honors firefighters ‘Past, Present & Future’
By Dave Munday of The Post and Courier
An old firetruck has come back to life with a new mission.
Engine 11, a 1961 Mack C-85 pumper, retired in 1991 after three decades of service in Charleston.
It was recommissioned Sunday afternoon — gleaming with fresh paint and fully reupholstered — not to [...]

Martex Fiber burns in Croft

The Croft Fire Department along with 5 other departments are on the scene of a large fire at the Martex Fibers plant at 2650 Southport Road.
It started just before 11 o’clock Monday night.
Fire officials say an employee discovered the fire and tried to put it out, but it spread quickly. Firefighters have the flames under [...]

2 fires under investigation

Lexington – County FF’s responded to 2 mobile home fires; one in the Dixiana and the other in Boiling Springs.
The first blaze on Sheraton Lane in the Dixiana community was a well involved vacant mobile home. There was no power to the residence and the fire is considered suspicious.
The second was on Platt Springs Road [...]

Colleton County MVA pins 2

Colleton County Fire-Rescue responded to a high speed single car MVC on I-95 at the 61 mile marker southbound, Friday morning at 1033. The elderly North Carolina couple lost control of their vehicle, struck several trees in the median trapping both the driver and front passenger in the wreckage. Engine 26 was on the scene [...]

Colleton has fire at Meadow Creek

Colleton County Fire-Rescue responded to an apartment fire at 156 Kimbrell Street (Meadow Creek Apartments) at 1515 Friday 6-November. Truck 11 arrived within one minute of the dispatch, reporting moderate smoke coming from the building, with a working fire in a downstairs utility room. Engine 26 arrived shortly thereafter, laying a 5 inch supply line [...]

Plane Crashes @ GSP Airport

Greenville - 3 People Transported To Hospital. A small plane has crashed at the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport, sending three people to the hospital.
The plane went down at the end of the southwest runway near Highway 14.
The 911 call came in around 10:10 a.m.
Airport spokesperson Rosylin Weston said the plane hit a guard rail on S.C. Highway [...]

Georgetown County FF’s extricate

Trucks destroyed in MVA

St. Paul’s – A tractor trailer collided with a  gravel truck resulting in one of the rigs overturning as well as spilling diesel fuel from ruptured fuel tanks.
St. Pauls Fire Department was on the scene along with Charleston County EMS, Charleston County Rescue Squad and a fire engine from Colleton County.
There was an entrapment and a patient [...]

3rd alarm blaze 1 of 2 arsons

Arson is suspected in a fire that did over $500,000 in damage to a three-story apartment building at 3430 Broad River Road.
No injuries were reported in the fire that forced nearly 20 people to seek help from the local American Red Cross.
The three-story building was completely gutted in the blaze.
It took nearly two hours for [...]

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