If there exists a cancer concern, forget it, according
to Wheeling Fire Chief Larry Helms.
If remediation can cleanse the three acres at the end
of 19th Street in East Wheeling to the extent guarantees can be made
that those...
Larry Helms joined the Wheeling Fire Department in October 1986 and was named chief in September 2007, and this one blaze that destroyed the former Island Exposition Hall involved the largest structure of his 34-year tenure.
According to scanner communication between Ohio County 911 dispatchers and first responders, crews were first released before 8:30 p.m. last night from the scene of the massive fire, but the Ladder 1 and Ladder 6 companies remained to continue efforts to completely extinguished the blaze. Once maintained, a skeleton crew remained on scene.
A User Fee collection will begin in the city of Wheeling in less than a week to pay for the construction of a $15 million public safety building, but the paycheck skimming of those two weekly...
Ozzie Hyde is the general manager and Christine Thomas serves as the eatery’s marketing manager, and for Thanksgiving they, along with The Lube’s staff, offered a free buffet for military veterans, active personnel, and first responders.
It still reins as one of the most historic fires in the history of the city of Wheeling if not the entire Upper Ohio Valley, and it took place more than a century ago near the...
