Crews battle 2-alarm fire at restaurant near SouthPark Mall

Table Of Content

• CFD: 15 workers rescued, 2 unaccounted for in Charlotte construction site fire
• President Biden visits families of officers killed in Charlotte
• Officers Are Shot, 4 Fatally, While Serving Warrant in Charlotte
• Officials Release Names Of Construction Workers Killed In SouthPark Fire
• Road closures
• Woman arrested after deadly shooting of 21-year-old in Charlotte
• Update: 2 workers killed as massive fire destroys SouthPark apartment building under construction

A second alarm was struck shortly after the fire broke out. The fire was controlled in 50 minutes by 60 firefighters. To help the loved ones of the CMPD officers and U.S.

CFD: 15 workers rescued, 2 unaccounted for in Charlotte construction site fire

Charlotte Fire Marshal Kevin Miller explicitly told WBTV no one from the fire department ever visited the site during an interview in July. "He said there's a man shooting over there," the neighbor told WCNC Charlotte's Jesse Pierre. "Man, we never had nothing like this before. Never. I've been over here for 27 years. It's wild, man." Inside the neighborhood, WCNC Charlotte spoke with a neighbor who said he received a phone call from someone explaining there was a shooting in the area. Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools confirmed four schools were on a modified lockdown due to the shooting. The schools were Devonshire Elementary School, Briarwood Academy, Cochrane Collegiate and Lawrence Orr Elementary School.

President Biden visits families of officers killed in Charlotte

The officer, Joshua Eyer, who had been with the department for six years, was helping other officers arrest the suspect when he was shot, the police said. Eight law officers were shot on Monday, four fatally, as a U.S. Marshals fugitive task force tried to serve a warrant in Charlotte, N.C., the police said, in one of the deadliest days for law enforcement in recent years. Johnson said one of those rescued was a crane operator who had minor injuries. He added the construction foreman confirmed the two unaccounted-for workers. Photos tweeted by the department show flames and heavy black smoke shooting out of what appears to be a residential building under construction as crews attempt to battle the blaze.

Officers Are Shot, 4 Fatally, While Serving Warrant in Charlotte

Their fire alarm started to go off in their building, so the office workers evacuated. She said everyone was safe thanks to that fire alarm. After several lines of questioning, Miller provided new details about building number 7740, the one adjacent to the structure that caught fire. According to Miller, a fire sprinkler contractor reached out to an inspector and scheduled an inspection. A Stateville police officer was also hurt in the shooting. Corporal Casey Hoover was serving as a member of the U.S.

Officials Release Names Of Construction Workers Killed In SouthPark Fire

Charlotte Fire asked anyone unable to locate family members who were working at the construction site to call 911. Police shared the same information, saying an officer will complete a missing persons report. They asked family to provide the person’s full name, date of birth, physical description and a recent photo. WCNC Charlotte crews could see large smoke clouds and flames shooting hundreds of feet into the air from the area of Barclay Downs Drive and Fairview Road as they were driving to the scene. That same month, three officers in Baton Rouge, La., were killed, and three others were wounded in what the authorities described as an “ambush.” The gunman was killed during a shootout. The fire broke out at an apartment complex on Fishers Farm Lane around 3 p.m.

A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police sergeant was on the task force but was not struck by gunfire, Jennings said. The sergeant called for backup, and that's when the four responding Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers were shot, Jennings said. A crane operator spotted two people working on windows and tried to swing a basket over to them to help, but the smoke and fire made the rescue too difficult. Channel 9 has not confirmed that Demonte Sherrill and the other construction worker were those two people.

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The cloud of smoke from the fire was so thick it was registering on the radar. WCNC Charlotte Forecaster Larry Sprinkle said, due to the smoke, the air quality skyrocketed to the "very unhealthy" level. Sprinkle strongly encouraged everyone to stay inside because the dense smoke is in the air, and experts aren't aware yet what is in the smoke chemical-wise. "A Mayday is required when we have to send other firefighters to rescue those companies," the fire official explained.

Officials asked the public to not call 911 unless there is an absolute emergency. There were no reports of injuries to the firefighters. Firefighters called two maydays because crews got trapped or had issues with accessing means of escaping, Johnson said.

Update: 2 workers killed as massive fire destroys SouthPark apartment building under construction

The shooting investigation impacted many Charlotte drivers. Marshals Fugitive Task Force when they were shot while confronting a suspect inside a home on Galway Drive. Three task force officers were pronounced dead at the hospital. One of the injured CMPD officers "fought for his life for several hours before succumbing to his injuries," CMPD confirmed late Tuesday night.

A video tweeted by Charlotte firefighters just before 10 a.m. We’ve been advised to stay away from the SouthPark area until further notice and residents who live nearby, please stay inside. Please allow @charlottefire, @CMPD, and MEDIC time to do their work and protect our city.

Another worker told Channel 9 that a foam-spraying machine caught fire and then spread to the floors above. By about noon, the majority of the flames had been extinguished, and firefighters were focused on dousing hotspots throughout the building. The five-alarm blaze happened on Liberty Row Drive near Fairview Road. Construction worker Demonte Sherrill, 30, died in the fire, family members said. Looking back at past five-alarm fires in Charlotte's history, a storage building was destroyed by a five-alarm fire in southwest Charlotte in July 2022.