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2 days ago
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South Zanesville business heavily damaged by electrical fire
ZANESVILLE – A South Zanesville business wasn't a total loss after a June 6 fire, but it did receive an estimated hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of damage. The front portion of the Kelly Architectural Services building, located at 2960 Pinkerton Road, caught fire early in the morning, as the first responding fire departments, South Zanesville and Newton Township arrived at around 2:42 a.m. The fire had started working toward the building's back portion and spread into the main part of the business, and up into the second story, according to Russell Taylor, the South Zanesville Fire Department chief. One firefighter started closing doors to contain the fire better and first attacked it from the front. As more arrived, responders pincered the fire from the back, basement, and upper level. It was extinguished after about 40 minutes, Taylor noted. The building's front part will likely have to be torn down now, Russell added. He estimated at least $200,000 worth of damage and future repairs. No one was injured. The South Zanesville Fire Department ruled the cause as electrical, Taylor said. The fire was believed to have been generated from a piece of IT equipment, similar to a power strip. The fire is still under investigation by Kelly's insurance company. Washinton Township and Zanesville city Engines 1 and 2 and Ladder 1 also responded, along with Genesis Community Ambulance. Roseville's fire department was also dispatched. In total, around 24 firefighters worked on the scene. Responders cleared the scene around 5:02 a.m. More: William Thomas pleads guilty to assault and theft charges following fender-bender Shawn Digity is a reporter for the Zanesville Times Recorder. He can be emailed at sdigity@ or found on X at @ShawnDigityZTR. This article originally appeared on Zanesville Times Recorder: South Zanesville business receives heavy damage after fire
CBS News
17-05-2025
- CBS News
Truck driver found guilty on lesser charges in bus crash that killed 6 on school trip
A truck driver who triggered a chain-reaction crash with a bus that killed three Ohio high school band students and three adults was convicted of vehicular homicide Friday but cleared on more serious charges. The three students killed in the 2023 crash were on a charter bus, and a teacher and two chaperones in another vehicle hit by the tractor trailer also died. Licking County Judge David Branstool found Jacob McDonald, of Zanesville, guilty on six misdemeanor counts of vehicular homicide, but ruled that he was not guilty of aggravated vehicular homicide, a felony. The judge said McDonald's actions in causing the crash were negligent but not reckless. McDonald could have faced three decades in prison if he had been convicted on all of the more serious charges, but instead he now faces a maximum sentence of 18 months, according to his attorney. Some family members of the victims left the court before the judge finished announcing the verdict. Prosecutors said McDonald was speeding and failed to brake for slowing traffic on Interstate 70 because he was looking at his phone. His defense attorney, Chris Brigdon, disputed that, saying that the cellular data cited by investigators did not clearly show what was happening before the crash. Brigdon said after the verdict was announced that McDonald was still devastated by the crash because he knows he caused it. According to investigators, McDonald's truck hit an SUV and pushed it into the bus, which was carrying students from the Tuscarawas Valley Local School District in eastern Ohio. Some of the vehicles caught fire. Five vehicles were involved in the crash in Licking County, east of Columbus. The bus was carrying the students to an Ohio School Boards Association conference in Columbus.
The Independent
16-05-2025
- The Independent
Truck driver found guilty on lesser charges in bus crash that killed 6 on school trip
A truck driver who triggered a chain-reaction crash with a bus that killed three Ohio high school band students and three adults was convicted of vehicular homicide Friday but cleared on more serious charges. The three students killed in the 2023 crash were on a charter bus, and a teacher and two chaperones in another vehicle hit by the tractor trailer also died. Licking County Judge David Branstool found Jacob McDonald, of Zanesville, guilty on six misdemeanor counts of vehicular homicide, but ruled that he was not guilty of aggravated vehicular homicide, a felony. The judge said McDonald's actions in causing the crash were negligent but not reckless. McDonald could have faced three decades in prison if he had been convicted on all of the more serious charges, but instead he now faces a maximum sentence of 18 months, according to his attorney. Some family members of the victims left the court before the judge finished announcing the verdict. Prosecutors said McDonald was speeding and failed to brake for slowing traffic on Interstate 70 because he was looking at his phone. His defense attorney, Chris Brigdon, disputed that, saying that the cellular data cited by investigators did not clearly show what was happening before the crash. Brigdon said after the verdict was announced that McDonald was still devastated by the crash because he knows he caused it. According to investigators, McDonald's truck hit an SUV and pushed it into the bus, which was carrying students from the Tuscarawas Valley Local School District in eastern Ohio. Some of the vehicles caught fire. Five vehicles were involved in the crash in Licking County, east of Columbus. The bus was carrying the students to an Ohio School Boards Association conference in Columbus.
