Elyria News Archives

Next year, the city hopes to get double or triple its usual amount of money from the state's Issue 2 program, which will pave the way for more road projects.

For one Elyria woman, the real fireworks occurred after she and her family had left the July 3 show at West Park.

Elyria – Elyria Firefighters were called to an apartment complex on Turner Blvd early Saturday night to extinguish a car fire.

When Firefighters arrived they found a car towards the back of the lot fully involved in fire.

Smoke from the fire could be seen from downtown Elyria.

What is normally a quick knock down took slightly longer – the fire didn’t seem to want to go out.

It was like one of those annoying trick birthday candles, once it looked like it was out – it kicked up again. The problem was chemicals in the back seat of the car.

The owner of the car had cleaning supplies stored in her car at the time of the blaze. Friends comforting her at the scene said she had parked the car and was inside of her apartment when the fire started.

Firefighters emptied the water supply that they carry on the engine so they quickly called for another Engine and began looking to tap into a hydrant. With only three Firefighters on Engine 3 and two of them were battling the fire, the other Firefighter began pulling a 5 inch hose off the back of the truck.

Lending a hand was an Elyria Police Officer and a Sheriff’s Deputy.

EHS class of 1939 reunited in June One of Elyria High's oldest classes, the class of 1939, celebrated its 69th reunion on June 21 in the Cascade Room of Wesleyan Village.

Elyria – Onlookers and brick thieves (I mean souvenir searchers) called Elyria Firefighters back to General Industries Saturday evening when they spotted smoke billowing from the northeast corner of the scene.

After an inspection of the scene it was decided to have the aerial return.

Ladder 7 did return to the scene later that night to shoot water on the hot spots.

Note to brick enthusiasts: Carrying the bricks away in a plastic bag from Apples is not going to work.

To an outsider, it's just a big, smokey pile of bricks and twisted steel. But for people like Lillie Smith, the bricks hold memories of days with her husband who's now deceased.

Archive for July 4th, 2008 Indians: Roster overhaul expected soon CLEVELAND - There won't be any pennants or championship flags raised over Progressive Field this year.

Elyria, OH- A HUGE WAREHOUSE FIRE...AND DOZENS OF HOMES EVACUATED. THE FIRE AT THE OLD GENERAL INDUSTRIES WAREHOUSE AT CLEVELAND AND OLIVE STREETS STARTED AROUND 1:30 A-M. ABOUT 45 MINUTES AFTER THE BLAZE ...

A thick haze still hovered above much of the neighborhood surrounding the former General Industries building Friday as Elyria firefighters used aerial ladders to spray water on smoking hot spots.

BREAKING NEWS-Fire destroys former General Industries building. Bruce Bishop **Check out the latest videos section to see fire consume the former General Industries building **** ELYRIA - A fire ripped through ...

Photos from the scene! -- An old plastics plant in Elyria has been gutted by an overnight fire.

Elyria – What can only be described as an inferno – a massive fire ripped through the General Industries building on Taylor Street early Thursday morning.

Elyria Firefighters responded to the area at 1:40am after receiving multiple calls of a structure fire at the rear of General Industries.

When Firefighters arrived they found a rear building fully involved. Chief Joseph Pronesti of the Elyria Fire Department said the fire started in the loading dock area on the east side of the building.

“This structure, it’s old construction – it’s called Old Mill Construction. It has oil soaked floors – rapid fire spread. With this type of construction and the wind it was just not safe to have any Firefighters going inside the building.”

Chief Pronesti said that with the size of the building, basically being four blocks long and three stories high, they had concerns early about water supply.

"We basically tapped out the water lines so we called for the County Water Shuttle” Fire Departments for all over Lorain County were on scene assisting in the battle.

When asked what Departments were assisting Chief Pronesti said; “I have every Fire Department in the County, we even went outside of the county and we have North Olmsted covering our station along with Sheffield Lake and Avon Lake.”

A massive warehouse fire that broke out at about 2 a.m. Thursday is causing a five-block area to be evacuated in Elyria.

Today's weather is not supposed to be pretty, but, barring a full-fledged downpour, city officials plan to kick off this year's Independence Day celebration with a fireworks show at West Park.

Hundreds turn out to honor young man killed in Iraq Sunday, June 29, 2008 Stan Donaldson Elyria- Jason Cox may not have known many of the hundreds of people who attended his funeral on Saturday, but members of ...

One of the most endearing sights this weekend at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park has been the young children crowding around the drivers' trailers, eagerly hoping to get an autograph or picture with ...

Archive for June 27th, 2008 Indians easi-Lee down Giants CLEVELAND - If you can't beat 'em, Lee 'em. Unsuccessful in their first two attempts against the San Francisco Giants, the Indians turned to Cliff Lee to ...

The water had risen to the window of Kathleen Yeager's car, trapping her inside, before her rescuers - eight Wellington firefighters - got there.

The body of a 21-year-old soldier killed in Iraq is expected to arrive at Hopkins International Airport Wednesday at 3:58 p-m. Army Private Jason Cox died June 16th in Balad, Iraq after his vehicle encountered ...