News photographers remember the crowds and heat of the Idora Park fire


by WKBN.com

WKBN.com— Two of the Mahoning Valley's preeminent news photographers, they have taken pictures of everything from presidential visits to multiple homicides and everything in between. Working as competitors April 26, 1984, the two also shot one of Youngstown's watershed moments -- the fire that was the death knell of Idora Park.

www.stgeorgeutah.com—St. George News at 5: 4th of July artists named, brush fire sparks at nature park and Utah Tech’s growth. View our evening newscast for Thursday, April 25, in the video player above, then read the full stories below. Full story links: ‘Definitely human caused’: Brush fire flares up at Brooks Nature Park in St. George Not 1, not 2, but 3 artists announced for this year’s 99.9 KONY Country Fourth of July Celebration New […]

NBC Los Angeles—Fire breaks out inside fire station in Huntington Park. Firefighters with the Los Angeles County Fire Department responded to an unusual scene of a fire Wednesday morning: a fire department.

Los Angeles Times—Fire scorches Huntington Park fire station, but no injuries are reported. Fervent honking began just before 4 a.m. from drivers passing along Santa Fe Avenue in Huntington Park who witnessed one of the city's two fire stations burning. Neighbors living nearby banged on the door of the two-story office and dormitory as the adjacent garage was engulfed in flames. They were trying to alert sleeping firefighters to a blaze in their own building. Eventually, crews from Huntington Park's Fire Station No. 164 descended from their second-story living quarters, some in shorts,...