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Fire destroys two mobile homes in Altizer

By BILL ROSENBERGER ing and roof,” said Frazier, who it out. He said he knew that
YEARS The Herald-Dispatch kicked in the door to see if any- most of his stuff was lost, but he
brosenberger@herald-dispatch.com one was inside. hoped that some clothing was
H U N T I NGTON — Two The outbuilding burned to the still usable.

TUESDAY mobile homes along Peyton

Court near the corner of 10th
Street in Altizer were destroyed
April 6, 2010 by fire Monday afternoon.
Lt. Andrew Frazier of the
Barboursville Volunteer Fire
Department said the fire started
in the home on lot No. 12. When
crews arrived, it was already
fully engulfed, he said.
To make matters worse, winds
pushed flames toward a neigh-
boring outbuilding and the home
on lot No. 11.
“It got into between the ceil-
ground. The second mobile home
sustained serious damage from
smoke and water. Fire burned
most of the interior walls, but the
structure did not collapse as the
first one did.
The American Red Cross was
called in to assist the renters of
the two homes, none of whom
was home at the time.
Left homeless from lot No.
12 were a young man, his girl-
friend and his son. The young
man in lot No. 11 said he and
some friends had been renting
Volunteer departments from
Green Valley and Ohio River
Road arrived on scene to back
up Barboursville. And the Cabell
County Sheriff’s Office helped
control traffic along 10th Street.
This is at least the third fire in
the mobile home park in the past
16 months.
Firefighters battle a blaze that
destroyed two mobile homes
Monday in Altizer.
Lori Wolfe/The Herald-Dispatch

7 dead, 19 missing City lands

major
Construction
slows traffic
in coal mine explosion cornhole
on I-64
Traffic along Inter-
state 64 will be nar-
tourney
rowed to one lane World championship
each way in April
and May as crews event to be in arena
do some paving in By BRYAN CHAMBERS
The Herald-Dispatch
east Huntington and bchambers@herald-dispatch.com
Barboursville. HUNTINGTON — The sounds of corn-
Local / 3A filled bags banging on wooden boards will
echo throughout the Big Sandy Superstore
Arena over Labor Day weekend.
Local makes City officials announced Monday that
the arena will host the Miller Lite World
booking shows Championship of Cornhole V, a two-day
event that could draw 400 to 500 players

a lifestyle to downtown Huntington.

Tournament organizers said they selected
Huntington for the event, scheduled for Sept.
Bill Heaberlin has 4 and 5, because the Tri-State is a hotbed of
been booking shows cornholing. Heavy interest from sponsors, the
and entertaining arena and nearby hotels, restaurants and enter-
audiences of all ages tainment options are bonuses, they said.
“We’ll literally be within a corn bag’s toss
since 1971 with of Pullman Square and other downtown
such shows as Sum- amenities,” said Rick Mays, vice president
mer Motion, Fall of tournament operations. “There are lots of
The Associated Press people who will make a weekend of this.”
Fest, Marshall Art- Authorities survey the scene of a mine explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine, in Montcoal, W.Va., on Monday. Cornhole is a backyard game similar to
ists Series and more. horseshoes that has exploded in popularity
Community / 1C
Dozens of rescuers sent in to cover in recent years. Two teams, each consisting
of two players, take turns throwing bags at
a wooden board with a hole on one end.
Last view of
several square miles after 3 p.m. blast
Mays and Jack Williams, vice president
of event operations for the World Cham-
the past pionship of Cornhole, started the tour-
nament four years ago as a youth sports
The final presenta- By LAWRENCE MESSINA 0 100 mi 0 100 mi fundraiser in South Webster, Ohio.
tion of the Lost
Kingdoms of the
The Associated Press
MONTCOAL, W.Va. — Dozens of 0 100 km
Pittsburgh
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PENNSYLVANIA
“We started in an empty grass lot behind
a library with 62 teams,” Mays said.

Nile lecture series
will feature a spe-
cial speaker April 7
at the Clay Center.
condolences,
rescuers were trying to find 19 missing The tournament was moved to Ports-
OHIO OHIO
miners after an explosion killed seven mouth, Ohio, in its third year and then to
workers Monday at an underground Evansville, Ind., last year. Teams from as
coal mine with a history of releasing
vast amounts of highly combustible
methane gas, the mine owner and mine
WEST VIRGINIA help after WEST VIRGINIA
far as Pennsylvania, South Carolina and
California made the trip.

Life / 4C
safety officials said.
Nine rescue crews usually made up of
six members each were at the southern
Charleston
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Vol. 110 No. 96 dozen years. safety director for the United Mine Raleigh County,
“We want to assure the families of all Workers labor union.
the miners we are taking every action Methane is one of the great dangers of
possible to locate and rescue those still coal mining. The colorless, odorless gas
Obama about 30 miles
south of Charleston.
Authorities say 19 others are missing.
T he tea party is making a lot of
noise, but the angry-at-government
movement has yet to establish itself as
missing,” said Massey CEO Don Blan- is often sold to American consumers to Obama spoke Monday night to a force that can determine the outcome
kenship, who confirmed the number of heat homes and cook meals. In mines, West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin. of November’s congressional elections.
dead and missing in a statement. giant fans are used to keep methane The White House says in a state-
He said the names would not be concentrations below certain levels. In ment that Obama offered his deep- More on 5A
released until next-of-kin were 2006, 12 miners died in a methane explo- est condolences to those who lost
notified. sion at the Sago Mine in West Virginia. loved ones in the disaster.
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