

Bethany firemen prepare the ladder truck for smoke training at an abandoned home on West Main Street. Later in the night, the residence caught fire and burned to the ground, causing damage to an occupied home next door. No one was injured.
Bethany, MO: A fire department training exercise using smoke to simulate a fire at a vacant house on West Main Street turned into a full-scale inferno when the house erupted in fire later in the night, blazing out of control and singeing the siding on the houses next door.–By Caleb Osmon
