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The first fire department in Indianapolis was not founded until June 20, 1826. It was a volunteer department that had to use a church bell for alarms, and had only ladders and leather buckets to fight fires. This was seventeen months after the first recorded fire in Indianapolis occurred on January 17, 1825, which took place in a tavern across ...
A safety fire truck arrived and the flames were put out. Retreating from the scene, the truck driven by John B. Williams accidentally backed over his friend, John F. Masariu, 41, of Danville, Indiana, the principal of Ben Davis Junior High School, who was clearing a path for the vehicle. Masariu died of a crushed chest.
1981 Indianapolis 500. The 65th Indianapolis 500 was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, on Sunday, May 24, 1981. The race is widely considered one of the most controversial races in Indy history. [3] [4] Bobby Unser took the checkered flag as the winner, with Mario Andretti finishing second.
January 2, 2024 at 2:32 PM. The brother of an Indianapolis firefighter has been arrested in the fatal double shooting of the first responder and a 42-year-old woman found inside a crashed vehicle ...
At about 7 p.m., Dec. 24, police responded to a call from an Indianapolis Fire Department station at 4120 N. Mitthoefer Road of a walk-in person who had been shot.
81. Non-fatal injuries. ~400. The Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion took place in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, on October 31, 1963; 81 people died and about 400 others were injured. It was one of the worst disasters in the history of the state. On the night of October 31, over 4,000 people were in the Indiana State ...
A woman was killed, and a man critically injured, in a house fire on the east side of Indianapolis in January. Contact Jake Allen at jake.allen@indystar.com. Follow him on Twitter @Jake_Allen19.
Indiana 9/11 Memorial is a memorial in downtown Indianapolis dedicated to those killed in the September 11 attacks. It was begun early in 2010 as a grassroots effort. Greg Hess, a firefighter paramedic with the Indianapolis Fire Department, was the primary lead of the initiative. In 2001, Hess was a member of Indiana Task Force 1 (INTF-1), one ...