Having a bonfire is one of those things that makes late summer and fall in Minnesota so great. But is that firepit in your backyard legal here in Rochester?
Are you smelling smoke? Seeing a haze? That is the smoke from the Canadian wildfires in the air moving through Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
When we were kids we watched a collie dog named Lassie help Timmy every week. In real life it's a dog named Coco credited by his owners for saving them from a house fire in Red Wing on Saturday.
According to KSTP, Jodi Lewis's family had trained Coco to ring a bell near the back door when the dog need to go outside and take care of business...
Fire broke out about 1AM in a house on the 2000 block of Ashland Street in Hastings on Wednesday morning.
The Hastings fire department reported that the fire was contained to most of the back of the house, and a family of four got out safely but will not be able to return to the home because of the damage...