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10 displaced after vehicle ‘rolls’ into apartment building on Electric Road
ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. (WFXR)– Roanoke County Fire and Rescue reported a vehicle rolled into a building on Electric Road during the afternoon of Saturday, July 20. According to the fire department, crews responded at 3:57 p.m. to the 4300 block of Electric Rd on a report of a vehicle into a building. Units arrived to find a wall collapsed in an apartment building, and the vehicle had already been moved.
SUV damages building in Copper Croft apartments, displaces 10 people
An SUV rolled into an apartment building Saturday in Cave Spring, causing structural damage that resulted in no injuries but 10 people being displaced, according to Roanoke County Fire and Rescue. Firefighters responded to the 4300 block of Electric Road at the Copper Croft apartments around 4 p.m. and found...
Roanoke County Summer Field Day canceled
ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - UPDATE: The event has been canceled because of weather, according to Roanoke County. ORIGINAL STORY: Public safety agencies in Roanoke County are hosting Summer Field Day Saturday, July 20 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Green Hill Park in Salem. Summer Field Day is...
Roanoke County hosting first-ever Summer Field Day
SALEM, Va. – If you’re looking for a fun reason to take the kids outside this weekend, look no further than Roanoke County’s first-ever Summer Field Day. This free event includes a bouncy house, a water slide, and food vendors. There will also be various emergency vehicles there for kids to explore.
Interstate 81 to Be Widened to 3 Lanes in Both Directions in Roanoke County
Design is underway with construction expected to begin in fall 2025 The Commonwealth Transportation Board at its July 16 meeting in Richmond awarded a design-build contract valued at $361.6 million to Branch Civil Inc. of Roanoke to widen northbound and southbound Interstate 81 to three lanes between exit 143 in Roanoke County and exit 150 […]
CASEY: Blacksburg couple loses $21,000 worth of stored furniture to mold, mildew
On the surface, the case of Ron and Diana Bonofiglio and their mildewed furniture appears to be a simple one. A few years ago, the retired couple sold their large five-bedroom home and rented a small condo while building a smaller house in Blacksburg. For the next two-and-a-half years, they stored many professionally boxed-and-wrapped household belongings in a self-storage business in northern Roanoke County.
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