Silver Alert lifted for missing Douglas County man

Posted: May 15, 2014 - 4:18am
Updated: May 15, 2014 - 6:54am

Update:
Deputies confirm that Mr. Cranwell was located in Butler County, near the city of El Dorado. He is uninjured and arrangements are being made for him to be reunited with his family.

El Dorado is nearly two hours southwest of Douglas County.

Original report:

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The Douglas County Sheriff's Office has issued a Silver Alert for Covert C. Cranwell, 90, of Lecompton. He has the onset of dementia and left without his medications.

Authorities say Cranwell was last seen leaving his Lecompton home in the 2000 block of East 100 Road around 9 p.m. Wednesday. He was driving a gray 2008 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck with Kansas license plates 122CFP.

Mr. Cranwell is 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighs 170 pounds. He has blue eyes, white hair and was last seen wearing blue jeans and a pale striped shirt.

Family believes that he may be heading for a family home near Lyndon, Kansas. Lyndon is about 30 miles south of Topeka, in Osage County.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call the Douglas County Sheriff's Office at 785-832-7509 or 785-841-0007.

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Fully involved house fire just west of Lawrence

Posted; July 8, 2012 - 5:02am
Updated: July 8, 2012 - 5:57am

Firefighters from several area Townships are on scene of a residential structure fire at 1565 E 800 Road, just  west of Highway 40 and K-10.

Crews were dispatched around 4:50 a.m.. Those responding crews reported flames visible from Highway 40 and K-10. Once units arrived on scene they reported the second floor was fully involved with fire. All residents of the home are said to be out of the structure.

Incident Command has requested a county-wide tender response for assistance in establishing a water supply to fight the fire.

The fire was reported to be under control at 5:55 a.m..

No injuries have been reported at the scene.

As new details become available, they can be found here from our reporting partners at the Lawrence Journal-World.

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Large brush fire in west Lawrence

Posted: July 5, 2012 - 12:45pm
Updated: July 6, 2012 - 3:40am

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Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical was dispatched to a grass fire in the 6000 block of Bob Billings Parkway and George Williams Way at 10:20 a.m.. A media release says that due to extremely dry conditions, wind gusts and an abundance of dry vegetation, the fire began to spread rapidly to the northeast potentially affecting several homes along Palisades Street and Langston Hughes Elementary School. The incident was upgraded to a structure fire with mutual aid requests from numerous neighboring departments.

Mutual aid was received from; Eudora Township, Wakarusa Township, Lecompton Township, Willow Springs Township, and Kanwaka Township.

In addition to the Douglas County departments, mutual aid was also requested from several Johnson County departments which included; Olathe, Lenexa, Overland Park, and Shawnee Fire Departments. Johnson County Med-Act also assisted with emergency medical coverage.

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Numerous homes in the 6200 block of Palisades street were evacuated until the fire could be contained. All residents were allowed back into their homes by 12:30 p.m..

No injuries were reported to Fire Department personnel and the American Red Cross provided rehydration assistance to multiple responding agencies.

Investigators say the fire was sparked after a squirrel came into contact with overhead electrical power lines, causing a spark which ignited the vegetation beneath the line.

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Officials say there is not a dollar loss associated with the vegetation burned, however minor damages are being assessed of the houses that were adjacent to the burned area.

Additional information and photos from Operation 100 News reporting partners at the Lawrence Journal-World.

Missing Topeka man found dead in rural Douglas County

Posted: January 5, 2012 - 11:15am
Updated: January 5, 2012 - 4:32pm

The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a body was found in extreme northwest Douglas County. Reports of a possibly deceased person were reportedly received from a Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railroad employee.

Sheriff's Deputies were called to the 1 block of N 2190 Road around 10:45 a.m., Thursday morning. This area is northwest of Lecompton and reportedly just south of the railroad tracks which run along the Kansas River.

Operation 100 News reporting partner, the Lawrence Journal-World reports that Douglas County Undersheriff Steve Hornberger has identified the man as Corey Brown, a 39-year-old Topeka man. Topeka Police are also on the scene assisting with the investigation. The case remains under investigation as a "suspicious death" More details can be found here from the Lawrence Journal-World.

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