Firefighting

ROY — Residents of a 12-unit apartment building shed many tears Monday evening as they watched their homes go up in flames.

The two-alarm blaze at the Herfordshire Apartments, 4642 S. 1900 West, was reported by Roy Police Sgt. Danny Hammon as starting at 4:14 p.m.

Joseph Geddes Murray, born Aug. 8, 1930, has died. A funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Lorin Farr Stake Center, 480 7th St., Ogden. Friends may visit family  from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11, at Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd., and from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Saturday at the church. Interment, Lindquist’s Memorial Gardens of the Wasatch, 1718 Combe Road. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Boy Scouts of America in his name www.trappertrails.org or LDS Perpetual Education Fund. Post condolences at www.lindquistmortuary.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

DEVON NELSON/Special to the Standard-Examiner

A blaze consumes a car with at least $1,000 inside. Ogden firefighters were called out to 1628 East and 1250 South at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, says Deputy Chief Chad Tucker. A 2003 Honda Civic that was parked at the address was on fire. Firefighters fought the blaze, but the car is a total loss. The owner was visiting at the address and says he had left a wallet containing more than $1,000 inside the Honda. The car had an estimated value of $5,000, Tucker says.

CLEARFIELD -- A garage was destroyed and an adjacent home was heavily damaged by fire late Thursday afternoon.

The report of the blaze at 893 Birch St. came into emergency dispatchers shortly after 5 p.m.

WEST HAVEN — Where there’s smoke, it may just be a controlled burn, fire officials say.