Recycling holiday items through mid-January

Recycling holiday items through mid-January

AUSTINTOWN — The Mahoning County Recycling Division, better known as the Green Team, encourages people to collect their wrapping paper and greeting cards in brown paper bags and deliver the material to any one of the 42 recycling drop-off sites between Friday and Jan. 15.

Authorities probe arson on South Side

YOUNGSTOWN — Five children, ages 3 to 8, were taken from a house at 436 Pasadena Ave. on the South Side after a fire was deliberately set on the front porch, reports show.

The fire at 9:45 p.m. Tuesday was confined to the porch, where the odor of an accelerant was detected, the fire department said.

The mother returned to the home about 15 minutes after firefighters arrived.

Damage was set at $1,500.

Elsewhere, firefighters found roads extremely icy on their way to a fire in an apartment at 1220 Kendis Circle on the East Side at 11:05 p.m. Tuesday. Smoke was found throughout the apartment, apparently from a pot on the stove. A man on the porch was attended by an ambulance crew. Damage was set at $3,000.

The Red Cross made hotel arrangements for the residents of 1621 Midland Ave. and their three dogs after a fire in the living room at the West Side house around 5:40 p.m. Tuesday. The owner told firefighters that holiday lights, including those on the Christmas tree, had been left on. The tree was found on the floor, completely stripped of its limbs. Damage was set at $22,000 to the house and contents.

Boil alert in Canfield for some residents

CANFIELD — A boil alert has been issued for some in the city.

Residents of South Broad Street from Maple Drive to Fair Street have been instructed to boil all water used for drinking and cooking until 1 p.m. today.

The alert is a precautionary measure due to a waterline break within the city.

Icy roads lead to wrecks ‘all over the city’

Even though the temperature rose overnight, freezing rain made driving treacherous.

In Youngstown, police responded to 10 accidents between midnight and 9 a.m. Wednesday. The crashes occurred “all over the city,” police said. Travelers on Oak Hill Avenue and Interstate 680, especially, faced challenging driving conditions. No serious injuries were reported.

A crash on Market Street in Beaver Township late Tuesday involved several vehicles. Icy roads were believed to be the cause of the collision, which trapped the occupants of at least one vehicle and blocked the street near Phantom Fireworks.

More auto accidents in Trumbull County

WARREN — The Ohio State Highway Patrol and Trumbull County 911 Center in Howland handled 100 or more automobile crash calls between 11 p.m. Tuesday and noon Wednesday because of the icy conditions.

Gayleen Littell, dispatcher with the Ohio State Highway Patrol post in Warren, said the crashes were all over the county, but there seemed to be more in the area along state Route 82, especially near state Route 11 and U.S. Route 422.

The patrol handled 24 crashes during that time period, but there were many more vehicles that slipped off the roadway and required a tow truck to pull them back on, Littell said.

None of the accidents caused a serious injury, she said.

Trumbull County 911 fielded at least 70 calls involving motor vehicle accidents between 11 p.m. Tuesday and 8 a.m. Wednesday, a dispatcher there said.