A dumpster outside Clara Dickson Hall on North Campus caught fire at approximately 5:45 p.m. on Sunday. The IFD extinguished the fire in the dumpster and said they had the situation under control by 6 p.m, according to emergency radio reports. 

Nearly a year after Brian Lo ’11 died in a fire at 107 Cook Street, Planning and Development Board members unanimously approved plans to build two two-story townhouses at the site Tuesday.

Firefighters from the Ithaca Fire Department responded to a report of a car on fire in the Oxley Parking Lot near the Vet School on Wednesday morning after Cornell emergency workers were unable to successfully get the blaze under control, according to IFD Lieutenant Tom Basher.

Popular Collegetown restaurant Miyake will be closed indefinitely after a fire at the restaurant early Wednesday morning caused significant damage to the restaurant’s kitchen, according to the Ithaca Fire Department.

Several people were evacuated on Eddy Street early Wednesday morning due to a fire that appeared to start in the kitchen of Miyake. No injuries were reported, according to Dan Tier, assistant fire chief of the Ithaca Fire Department.

Preliminary sketch plans were released in August for a new building at 107 Cook St., the site of the May 6 fire that killed Brian Lo ’11 and destroyed the original house on that lot.

Tom Parsons ’82 was promoted to Ithaca Fire Chief on Sunday after previously serving as deputy fire chief and fire marshal. 

After the fire on Cook Street that resulted in the death of Brian Lo '11, officials at a Collegetown Neighborhood Association meeting Tuesday discussed how to prevent future tragedies.

Brian Lo '11 died in a house fire on Cook Street early Friday morning. The house's other residents escaped.

A Shortline Bus returning to Ithaca from New York City burst into flames Sunday morning in Brooktondale, N.Y., eight miles outside Ithaca, after the driver accidentally drove up a hill on a flat tire.