GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — No injuries reported in major house fire on Lake Minnetonka
Fire crews responded to a house fire along the shore of Lake Minnetonka Wednesday evening in Wayzata. According to the Wayzata Fire Department, crews were responding to a call on the 2700 block of Gale Road, where they found a fully engulfed home that was under construction on Wayzata Bay. Because there were no nearby fire hydrants, crews had to rely on water brought in by tanker trucks. According to real estate records, the house was valued at around $6 million dollars. Officials say there were no injuries and are still trying to determine the cause of the fire.
Thursday temperatures are bitterly cold, causing school closures across Minnesota, but the Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools will be open. According to the Minneapolis school district website, classes will be cancelled if the wind chill forecast for 6:30 a.m. the following day is -35 or colder, with winds speeds of at least five to 10 miles an hour. The website reports a windchill forecast of -29 for Thursday morning, not cold enough to close. The school district is encouraging parents to bundle students to stay warm and out of the wind, and advises downloading the 'Here Comes the Bus' app to track buses and limit time spent waiting outside.
Wendy Puckett is grateful to be back behind the counter of Wendy's House of Soul restaurant at Broadway and Emerson in North Minneapolis. Late last year Puckett wasn't sure what would happen to her business after a pellet gun shooting sent her to the hospital and forced her to close down. On Nov. 2, as she was leaving work she heard some laughter, a car and some chatter, and as she turned was hit in the nose with a pellet gun. The pellet didn't stop there. Puckett says it shattered inside her face and nearly took her eye. Late last week, her anxiety began to ease a bit when she learned Minneapolis police arrested two adults and two juveniles in connection to more than a dozen pellet gun shootings that shattered windows across the north metro area. Wendy is now waiting to hear whether the suspects will be charged in connection to her shooting.
