Star Tribune
Fireworks likely sparked apartment fire in St. Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood
Fireworks are suspected of igniting a three-alarm fire that heavily damaged an apartment building Sunday afternoon in St. Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood.
About 30 residents who lived in the building on the 1300 block of St. Paul Avenue were displaced and all 17 units of the building were condemned by inspectors from the Department of Safety and Inspections, said St. Paul Fire Department Deputy Chief Roy Mokosso,
Residents said they had heard fireworks about 4:15 p.m. just before seeing flames on the lawn of the building. Investigators found fireworks debris in the area where the fire was believed to have started, Mokosso said.
Gusty winds fanned the flames, which quickly spread to nearby trees and jumped into the attic space above the building’s third floor, Mokosso said.
More than 60 firefighters from 12 companies responded to the scene.
No one was injured, Mokosso said.
Initial estimates put the damage at about $2 million.
A 63-year-old Eveleth man died from injuries suffered in a house fire in the northern Minnesota city Friday morning.
Dale Wallander of rural Eveleth was found with burns covering most of his body at the end of the driveway to his house in the 7100 block of Antoinette Road in Eveleth at about 11:26 a.m. Friday, according to a press release from the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office.
Law enforcement arrived to find his house engulfed in flames. Wallander was transported to a metro area hospital by Life Link air medical service, but died of his injuries, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Sheriff’s Office and the State Fire Marshal.
Brooklyn Park police arrested two people Saturday in connection with an early-morning shooting that left one man dead.
Police responded to a shooting in the 7900 block of Lee Avenue North at about 4:36 a.m. Saturday, and found a man with a gunshot wound, according to a Brooklyn Park Police Department press release. The man was pronounced dead at the scene and hasn’t yet been identified.
Later Saturday, Brooklyn Park detectives arrested two suspects who are being held at the Hennepin County Jail, according to police.
“We passed three of them and we did it [in a] bipartisan [way],” said Walz, who represented southern Minnesota in Congress for a dozen years before running for governor.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz holds Matt Kucharski’s dog, Libby, a 6-year-old German Shorthaired Pointer, to give her a drink during the annual Minnesota Governor’s Pheasant Hunting Opener. (Anthony Souffle)
Following the event, Walz’s motorcade wound its way north and east across farm country, past combines in fields harvesting corn, to downtown Sleepy Eye, where he slipped into a crowded brewery. In many ways, the trip resembled any year for a pheasant opener, save this time the motorcade, a dozen vehicles long, stretched out the back side of a downtown Sleepy Eye alleyway.
One patron, who declined to give her name but said she grew up in Madelia and lived in New Ulm, was purchasing a six-pack of beers when she told the bartender, “Is that Walz? I don’t got time for that guy.”
Later, when Walz briefly emerged from a side room, a chorus of cheers reached him from the balcony, before he hustled out to the motorcade.
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