April 13, 2020

City firefighters responded at 5:19 p.m. Saturday, April 11, to a report of a sewer fire at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center Behavioral Health, 2620 N. Westwood Blvd. According to the report, hospital security directed firefighters to an area where a discarded cigarette had caught some trash on fire and was smoking out of a drain pipe. The fire was out upon the fire department’s arrival...

City firefighters responded at 5:19 p.m. Saturday, April 11, to a report of a sewer fire at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center Behavioral Health, 2620 N. Westwood Blvd.

According to the report, hospital security directed firefighters to an area where a discarded cigarette had caught some trash on fire and was smoking out of a drain pipe. The fire was out upon the fire department’s arrival.

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County firefighters responded at 3:29 p.m. Saturday, April 11, to a structure fire at 619 Highway T.

According to the report, a mobile home, which was being torn down, caught fire. A trash fire also burned a small area of woods. The owner was Donna Williams.

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County firefighters responded at about 8:45 p.m. Saturday, April 11, to a woods fire on County Road 620.

According to the report, a farmer was burning a field, and the fire spread into some adjacent woods and burned about three acres of woods.

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