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Vehicle fire reported on I-74 in Whitewater Township

Vehicle fire reported on I-74 in Whitewater Township

Vehicle fire reported on I-74 in Whitewater Township

Vehicle fire reported on I-74 in Whitewater Township

BREAKING NOW AT FIVE... TWO CHILDREN AMONG THOSE KILLED IN A MOBILE HOME FIRE IN SOUTHEASTERN OHIO. CHILDREN AMONG THOSE KILLED IN A FIRE IN SOUTHEASTERN OHIO. WHAT FIREFIGHTERS FOUND AT THE SCENE IN ATHENS COUNTY. ALSO BREAKING, TWO DOZEN RELEASED HOSTAGES ARRIVE SAFELY IN ISRAEL. WHY PRESIDENT BIDEN SAYS THE CURRENT TRUCE IS JUST A FIRST STEP. NASCENT SETTING OUT THERE TODAY. HOW LONG THAT TREND CONTINUES BEFORE WE START TO SEE SOME WEEKEND SHOWERS COMING UP. DEEP DISCOUNTS FOR BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPERS. THE SALES BRINGING LOCAL FAMILIES TO THE STORES THIS HOLIDAY SEASON. PLUS, HAMILTON COUNTY PROSECUTOR MELISSA POWERS DISCUSSED JUDGE’S BAIL AND GUN VIOLENCE. WHY SHE SAYS VOTERS SHOULD KEEP HER AS PROSECUTOR AND WHAT COULD BE THE TOP ISSUE IN THE RACE. THIS IS WLWT NEWS FIVE, LEADING THE WAY WITH BREAKING NEWS. HEARTBREAK IN ATHENS COUNTY. FIVE PEOPLE KILLED IN A THANKSGIVING MORNING FIRE. THANKS FOR JOINING US TONIGHT AT 5:00. I’M SHEREE PAOLELLO AND I’M MIKE DARDIS. JUST A SHORT TIME AGO, WE LEARNED TWO OF THE FIVE WHO DIED WERE CHILDREN. WLWT. NEWS FIVE’S KARIN JOHNSON SPENT THE DAY THERE AND HAS MORE FROM ATHENS COUNTY. FIRE INVESTIGATORS WERE BACK OUT AT THE SCENE HERE AGAIN TODAY ON RAINBOW LAKE ROAD, INVESTIGATING THIS DEADLY FIRE. LOCAL AND STATE FIRE INVESTIGATORS SORTING THROUGH RUBBLE AND COLLECTING EVIDENCE IN HOPES THEY’LL BE ABLE TO DETERMINE WHAT CAUSED THIS DEADLY FIRE. JUST AFTER 7:00 THANKSGIVING MORNING AT CITY FIRE, ATHENS CITY FIRE. THIS WAS A LONG HAUL. THIS WAS AN ALL CALL. CREWS FROM MULTIPLE AGENCIES WERE DISPATCHED TO A TRAILER FIRE ON RAINBOW LAKE ROAD. 1250 TEENS IN ROUTE. IN A REPORT ABOUT FIVE PEOPLE INSIDE. YOU GET A CALL AND THEY TELL YOU THAT THERE’S POSSIBLY PEOPLE TRAPPED, VICTIMS. YOU HOPE THAT THE THE TRAPPED VICTIMS PARTS WRONG AND AS IT TURNED OUT, IT WASN’T AMONG THOSE TRAPPED. AND TWO YOUNG CHILDREN, AC UNITS, BE ADVISED THESE ARE GOING TO BE TODDLER AGE CHILDREN. WE’RE GETTING A NUMBER OF TWO THAT’S STILL IN THE STRUCTURE. WHEN CREWS ARRIVED, TWO MOBILE HOMES WERE ENGULFED IN FLAMES. ALL FIVE PEOPLE TRAPPED, DIED. INVESTIGATORS SAY ONE PERSON ESCAPED AND WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL. ALL THE VICTIMS HAVE NOT YET BEEN IDENTIFIED. BUT TODAY, A COUPLE WHO SHOWED UP AT THE SCENE TOLD US THEY BELIEVE THEIR ADULT SON, WHO SOMETIMES STAYS AT THE HOUSE, WAS ONE OF THE VICTIMS. AS THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES, A MENTAL HEALTH TEAM IS BEING MADE AVAILABLE TO THE FIRST RESPONDERS WHO WERE ON SCENE AND HAD TO WITNESS THIS HORRIFIC TRAGEDY WHEN YOU GOT CHILDREN INVOLVED AND, YOU KNOW, WE ALL GOT KIDS OR GRANDKIDS AND THAT IT MAKES YOU GO HOME AND HUG YOUR KIDS AND GRANDKIDS A LITTLE TIGHTER AND BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU GOT. THIS IS A VERY RURAL PART OF ATHENS COUNTY. THERE AREN’T TOO MANY NEIGHBORS AROUND. BUT ONE MAN WHO LIVES ACROSS THE STREET TOLD ME THIS WAS A VERY PRIVATE FAMILY WHO LIVED HERE AND HE DIDN’T REALLY KNOW MUCH ABOUT THEM REPORTING IN ATHENS COUNTY, KAREN JOHNSON, WLWT NEWS FIVE. ALSO BREAKING TONIGHT, HAMAS HAS RELEASED TWO DOZEN HOSTAGES WHO HAVE BEEN HELD IN GAZA SINCE THE OCTOBER 7TH TERROR ATTACK. NOW, PRESIDENT BIDEN EXPECTS MORE RELEASES TO COME HERE IN THE COMING DAYS. ISRAEL AGREEING AGAIN TO THAT FOUR DAY CEASE FIRE TO ALLOW AID IN AND THOSE HOSTAGES OUT. IT ALSO RELEASED NEARLY 40 PALESTINIAN PRISONERS. TODAY’S RELEASE OF HOSTAGES, INCLUDING 13 ISRAELI ISRAELIS, RATHER, TEN THAI NATIONALS AND. ONE FILIPINO TO CONTINUE DOWN THE PATH OF TERROR AND VIOLENCE AND KILLING AND WAR IS TO GIVE HAMAS WHAT THEY SEEK. AND WE CAN’T DO THAT. SO TODAY, LET’S CONTINUE TO BE THANKFUL FOR ALL THE FAMILIES WHO ARE NOW AND THOSE WHO WILL SOON BE BROUGHT TOGETHER AGAIN. ISRAEL SAYS THE CEASE FIRE COULD BE EXTENDED IF MORE HOSTAGES ARE RELEASED, BUT IT DOES NOT PLAN OR RATHER BUT IT DOES PLAN TO RESUME AIRSTRIKES WHEN IT ENDS. ONE PERSON IN CUSTODY AFTER CRASHING A PICKUP TRUCK INTO A HOME IN DEER PARK. POLICE RESPONDED TO CLIFFORD ROAD SHORTLY BEFORE SIX THIS MORNING. THEY SAY THAT NO ONE WAS HURT IN THIS CRASH, BUT A WOMAN WAS INSIDE THE HOME AT THE TIME. SHE SAYS IT FELT LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE WHEN THIS DRIVER HIT THE HOUSE. I WAS LAYING ON THE COUCH ASLEEP AND FELT MY HOUSE SHAKING, JUMPED UP, OPENED THE FRONT DOOR TO SEE A PICKUP TRUCK HIT INTO MY HOUSE. NOW, THE WOMAN SAYS THE DRIVER RAN OFF AFTER THE CRASH, BUT POLICE SAY THEY DID ARREST ONE PERSON. WE’RE WORKING TO LEARN WHAT LED UP TO THAT WRECK AND IF THE HOUSE HAD ANY STRUCTURAL DAMAGE. FIREFIGHTERS HAD TO RESCUE A WOMAN, TWO CHILDREN ALSO FROM A THIRD FLOOR WINDOW AFTER DOWNSTAIRS RENOVATIONS LED TO A FIRE. NOW, ALL THREE WENT TO THE HOSPITAL, WE’RE TOLD, WITH MINOR SMOKE INHALATION. CINCINNATI FIREFIGHTERS RESPONDING HERE TO BREWSTER AND TRIMBLE AVENUES IN EVANSTON SHORTLY BEFORE ABOUT 9:00 THIS MORNING. A MAN ON THE FIRST FLOOR REPORTED THAT RAGS WITH VARNISH ON THEM CAUGHT FIRE IN HIS KITCHEN. FIREFIGHTERS HAD TO USE A LADDER TO GET TO THREE PEOPLE ON THE THIRD FLOOR. WE’RE TOLD THE FIRE CAUSED ABOUT $70,000 IN DAMAGE. OKAY, COLD, BUT A LITTLE BIT OF SUN OUT THERE TO KEEP YOU WARM WHILE YOU WERE RUNNING FROM STORE TO STORE ON THIS BLACK FRIDAY. COULD HAVE BEEN A WHOLE LOT WORSE ON A DAY LIKE TODAY. SOMETIMES YOU’RE DOWN IN THE 20S ON A DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING. LET’S GET OVER TO ALLISON ROGERS RIGHT NOW WITH CINCINNATI’S MOST ACCURATE FORECAST. HI, ALISON. HEY THERE, MIKE AND SHERRY. SO TEMPERATURES RIGHT NOW SITTING AROUND 39 DEGREES. YES, IT IS COLD OUTSIDE, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU FACTOR IN THAT WIND. THE WIND CHILL CURRENTLY PULLING IN RIGHT AROUND 31 IN CINCINNATI. SO IF YOU’RE HEADED OUT TONIGHT, I DON’T KNOW, MAYBE GOING OUT TO LIGHT UP THE SQUARE. IT’S GOING TO BE CHILLY. ICE SKATING BEFOREHAND, OF COURSE, STAYING IN THE UPPER 30S. AND THEN TONIGHT, AS THE SHOW STARTS OFF RIGHT AROUND 630, WE ARE GOING TO FALL DOWN TO ABOUT 38 OR SO WITH THAT BREEZE, WIND CHILLS ARE GOING TO BE IN THE LOWER 30S FEELING MORE LIKE 32 AT TIMES. AND THEN FOR THE ACTUAL TREE LIGHTING, TEMPERATURES ARE GOING TO FALL DOWN TO ABOUT 35 AND IT’S GOING TO FEEL MORE LIKE THE 20S OUTSIDE AT THAT POINT. SO CERTAINLY CHILLY OUTSIDE TONIGHT, BUT BY THE TIME YOU WAKE UP TOMORROW MORNING, IT IS GOING TO BE DOWNRIGHT COLD. I’LL SHOW YOU I’LL SHOW YOU HOW CHILLY THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS GET FOR YOUR SATURDAY MORNING. PLUS, TH
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Vehicle fire reported on I-74 in Whitewater Township

Vehicle fire reported on I-74 in Whitewater Township

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