{"id":9656,"date":"2014-08-02T11:26:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T15:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=9656"},"modified":"2014-08-02T13:27:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T17:27:25","slug":"fire-destroys-garbage-trucks-in-halifax-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/02\/fire-destroys-garbage-trucks-in-halifax-county\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED: Fire destroys garbage trucks in Halifax County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<strong>Editor&#8217;s note<\/strong>: We&#8217;ve updated this article with the complete story.)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re waiting on official statements from Halifax County authorities on this, but here&#8217;s what we know as of now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is a developing news story, so we&#8217;ll tell you what we have so far. If details change, we&#8217;ll update the article.<\/p>\n<p>The Breaking News Big Board is coming in&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Around 1:30AM Saturday morning, emergency calls came in about a fire at the Halifax County Public Works shop located at 1090 Landfill Lane in the Scottsburg area (right off of Rt. 360 &#8211; Bethel Rd.)<\/li>\n<li>Large explosions were heard up to five miles away. <em>Added<\/em>: These explosions were the tires popping due to the fire.<\/li>\n<li>Multiple fire departments were called to the scene. <em>Added<\/em>: Four fire departments (Halifax, South Boston, Scottsburg, Triangle) responded with a total of 9 trucks and 24 firefighters.<\/li>\n<li><del>We have reports of three or four garbage trucks destroyed by the fire<\/del>. Four garbage trucks were destroyed.<\/li>\n<li><del>No word yet on property damage, but we&#8217;re assuming it&#8217;s substantial<\/del>. No other property damage in the fire, because the trucks were parked away from the buildings.<\/li>\n<li>No injuries reported. <em>Added<\/em>: No injuries, confirmed.<\/li>\n<li><em>Added<\/em>: The preliminary cause of the fire is &#8220;accidental&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><em>Added<\/em>: Damage is estimated at $900,000 and the county is insured through the Virginia Municipal League.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><del>We&#8217;ll update this story when we learn more<\/del>. We&#8217;ve got pretty much of it all covered now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Editor&#8217;s note: We&#8217;ve updated this article with the complete story.)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re waiting on official statements from Halifax County authorities on this, but here&#8217;s what we know as of now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[63,20,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halifax-county","category-newscentral","category-updated","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-2vK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4253,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/16\/so-whos-moving-around-in-halifax-county-schools\/","url_meta":{"origin":9656,"position":0},"title":"So who&#8217;s moving around in Halifax County schools?","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"June 16, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Take a look at the June personnel report here! HALIFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS Personnel Report June 8, 2009 CERTIFIED PERSONNEL Resignation David L. Fallen \u2013 teacher \u2013 sp. ed. effective May 15, 2009 (HCMS) Tara Newton \u2013 teacher \u2013 social studies effective end of the 2008-09 school year (HCHS) Retirement\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;EducationCentral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"EducationCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/educationcentral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7013,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/12\/breaking-news-shooting-reported-outside-of-scottsburg-c-store\/","url_meta":{"origin":9656,"position":1},"title":"UPDATED: Breaking News: Murder\/suicide outside of Scottsburg C-store.","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"June 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to our great sources for getting this news to us quickly. The Halifax County Sheriff's Office is currently at the \"Short Stop\" convenience store in Scottsburg working a double shooting incident. At last report, a man and woman have been shot outside of the store. More to come as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Breaking News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Breaking News","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/newscentral\/breaking-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4436,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/30\/heres-the-official-statement-about-sunday-nights-halifax-fire\/","url_meta":{"origin":9656,"position":2},"title":"UPDATED: Here&#8217;s the official statement about Sunday night&#8217;s Halifax fire.","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"June 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"(Originally Published on: Jun 29, 2009 @ 18:52) Thanks go out to Halifax Fire Chief Dawson and Halifax Police Lieutenant Irby for getting this news release out. On June 28th at 9:14 pm, a passing motorist contacted Halifax County 9-1-1 to report a structure fire at the NAPA Auto Parts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Breaking News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Breaking News","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/newscentral\/breaking-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6410,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/14\/danville-police-help-out-halifax-county-sheriffs-office\/","url_meta":{"origin":9656,"position":3},"title":"UPDATED: Danville police help out Halifax County Sheriff&#8217;s Office","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"February 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Teamwork gets a bunch of idiot kids off the road and into jail. UPDATE: We've got the information from the Halifax County Sheriff's Office about how this incident started. From our friends at the Danville Police Department... Danville Police responded to a request for assistance reference a shots fired call\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Danville&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Danville","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/danville\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4906,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/02\/break-in-reported-saturday-in-halifax-county\/","url_meta":{"origin":9656,"position":4},"title":"Break-in reported Saturday in Halifax County","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"August 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"It may be the weekend, but the Sheriff's Department stays busy. Sometime during the day on Saturday, August 1, Myron Fariss reported that somebody broke into his home through the back door and stole prescription medicines and cash. Fariss lives at 1048 Temple Hill Rd. in the Scottsburg area. Patrick\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Halifax County&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Halifax County","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/halifax-county\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5654,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/20\/halifax-county-larceny-report-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":9656,"position":5},"title":"Halifax County larceny report","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"October 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been a while since we checked in with Stan Noblin's \"boys in brown\"... William Vaughan, Jr. (1038 Vaughan Ln., Scottsburg) reported that someone stole the license plates off of his 2002 Toyota Camry sometime over the last few days. The plates are numbered 246205. Robert Underwood (1170 Slick Rock\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Halifax County&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Halifax County","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/halifax-county\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9661,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions\/9661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}