| Driver extricated after car hits tree in German Township |
| Tue. Nov 25th 2008 |
SOUTH BEND — A man was hospitalized Monday after driving head-on into a tree on Portage Road near the Indiana/Michigan line, police said.
St. Joseph County police had little information at the scene, but it appeared the vehicle, a Chrysler 300M car, was traveling south in the 50600 block of P...
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| Rescuers pull man to safety after vehicle backs into pond |
| Mon. Nov 24th 2008 |
An elderly man in South Bend had quite a scare Sunday evening.
Just after 6:00 p.m., Clay firefighters responded to a call of a vehicle in a retention pond on the city's Bayhill Drive.
Apparently, the driver of the car was backing out of his driveway and hit the wrong pedal, which se...
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| Small fire damages Clay Township home |
| Sun. Nov 16th 2008 |
A small attic fire caused minimal damage to a home in Clay Township on Saturday.
The Clay Fire Department was called to 16830 Londonberry Lane at around 7 p.m. when the homeowners smelled smoke. Fire crews found the fire in the attic above the master bedroom and had the fire under control within mi...
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| Fire spreads through Granger home |
| Tue. Nov 11th 2008 |
GRANGER – Crews from at least five Indiana and Michigan fire companies battled a house fire Tuesday afternoon in northern St. Joseph County.
Firefighters were called to the home in the 52400 block of Hickory Road about 1:40 p.m., after a homeowner reported the blaze.
Crews found smok...
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| Clay Fire Department rescues cat stuck in a car |
| Thu. Nov 6th 2008 |
Curiosity gets the cat... caught under the hood of a car.
Patty Carruthers of South Bend was doing laundry near her garage when she heard meowing. It turns out a kitten had crawled under the hood of the family's SUV.
Carruthers called the Clay Fire Department for help and three firefighter...
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| No serious injuries in Toll Road rollover |
| Wed. Nov 5th 2008 |
Emergency crews were sent to a Toll Road crash near South Bend Wednesday morning, but authorities say no one was seriously injured.
The accident happened in the westbound lanes, about a mile east of the Notre Dame exit, just before 8:30 a.m.
Indiana State Police said the driver rolled the ...
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| Tree limb, power lines fall on car trapping infant inside (from WSBT-TV) |
| Thu. Aug 7th 2008 |
SOUTH BEND — A large tree limb fell and knocked power lines down on a car, trapping an infant inside the vehicle.
It happened in the 52400 block of Harvest Drive Thursday just after 7:30 a.m. Kathleen Tapp, 42, told WSBT News she was taking her 1-year-old son Kirt Tapp, Jr. to the babys...
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| Crash on Ironwood sends two people to the hospital (from WNDU-TV) |
| Sun. May 25th 2008 |
Two people were seriously hurt Sunday morning in a head-on crash in northern Saint Joseph County.
Police say one of the cars was going the wrong way on Ironwood just south of Cleveland.
That car was driven by Gregory Nifong and hit a car driven by Margaret Hires.
Both of the drive...
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| Blaze damages already-burned home on Ponader |
| Sun. Mar 2nd 2008 |
SOUTH BEND — Clay Fire Territory firefighters responded to a fire Thursday night at 17840 Ponader Drive. No injuries were reported.
Contractors working to repair damage from a fire at the home six months ago accidentally started the blaze, Battalion Chief Jim Hummell said.
The con...
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| SUV slides down Toll Road embankment (from WNDU-TV) |
| Wed. Feb 20th 2008 |
The eastbound lanes on Cleveland Road between McCombs and U.S. 933 are back open after an accident in St. Joseph County.
The accident happened around 5:30 Wednesday morning after an SUV traveling down the Indiana Toll Road crashed through the guardrail.
The SUV which was pulling a horse trailer wi...
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