A fire heavy with smoke and short on flames caused a total loss to one of the older houses in Platte City on Thursday afternoon. Firefighters from Central Platte and Camden Point responded to the scene Thursday shortly after 2 p.m. at 204 Paxton Street. The home was not occupied and no injuries were reported. Larry Bigus, chief for the Central Platte Fire District, said even though the structure remains standing, the fire “totaled the house, with the fire between the walls and under the ceilings.” Bigus said the home had been remodeled many times, resulting in “many different walls and different ceilings” that made the fire hard to fight.
Between the Lines by Ivan Foley: I am now on Twitter. You can follow me 24/7 if you’d like. I will tweet an update every time first district county commissioner Kathy Dusenbery says something really loudly.
Platte County’s parks staff is trying to get the final improvements at Benner Park finished before the dedication and grand opening. The county is hosting a dedication and grand opening ceremony on Wednesday, June 17 at 12 noon at the park in Weston.
Platte County was awarded a Class 6 rating under the National Flood Insurance Program’s Community Rating System for its proactive efforts to reduce loss of lives and mitigated property damage from floods in its quest to bring the county closer to being disaster resistant.
