MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. — The National Weather Service has issued a Fire Weather Watch for Delaware and the Upper Eastern Shore of Maryland, in effect from Saturday morning through Saturday evening. The watch covers New Castle, Kent, Inland Sussex, and the Delaware…
Mid-Atlantic states are under critical fire danger warnings today due to a rapid-moving shortwave and accompanying dry cold front. The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. for Delaware, with strong northwest winds, low…
Georgetown’s 30-Day Rainfall Absence Marks Unprecedented Drought Conditions For 30 consecutive days, Georgetown and surrounding areas across Delmarva have gone without measurable rainfall, plunging the region into severe drought. The consequences of this prolonged dry spell are mounting rapidly: in just the…
Several Kent County area fire crews responded to a barn fire in Pearsons Corner, just west of Dover last night (June 28). . Here is video of the fire, which broke out around 10:00 p.m. last night. Crews from Cheswold, Dover, Hartly,…
The Ellendale Fire Company announced it has donated one of its engines to a Kentucky fire station that was destroyed by flooding last year. . The 1996 Monarch is headed to the Blackberry Volunteer Fire Department in Ransom, Kentucky, where the station…
U.S. Coast Guard officials along with local fire agencies battled a barge fire early Monday morning in the Delaware Bay. According to the U.S. Coast Guard, watchstanders at the Sector Delaware Bay Command Center received a call around 1 a.m., Monday reporting…
Fire crews are currently battling a large-scale blaze that tore through several homes early Saturday morning in Dewey Beach. Crews responded around 3 a.m. for reports of a residential structure fire involving multiple houses in the 1900 block of Bayard Avenue in…
Harrington and Farmington Fire crews responded to a fire just after midnight on Wednesday morning. The fire occurred in the 23000 block of South DuPont Highway. When crews arrived, the home was engulfed in flames with dark smoke billowing from the…
An early morning fire has destroyed a home in Milford. According to the Carlisle Fire Company, around 4:18 a.m., Monday crews responded to a fully involved house fire on the 700 block of Cicada Lane in Milford. When crews arrived, fire personnel…
It took several fire crew to put out a fire at a home on Monday afternoon in Dover. Dover Fire, along with St. Francis and Kent County EMS, were called to North West Street to reports of a one story single…