Durant police, firefighters and emergency medical responders were dispatched to a trailer explosion Thursday morning which resulted in at least one injury.
Investigators were trying to determine what caused the apparent explosion of a travel trailer behind a home in the 1000 block of East Main Street in Durant between 7 and 8 a.m. Thursday. One man was treated at the scene for non-life threatening injuries.
In other police and fire reports from the week:
A stolen trailer and a vandalism incident are among crimes investigated by Durant Police recently.
Stuart Rustin told Officer Brandon Mitchell that a Top Hat utility trailer had been stolen from a fenced-in area of the property.
Officer Shane Walker investigated a vandalism incident at Babyland Cay Care, 723, W. Evergreen St. Employees Jacqueline Gordan and Carissa Andis said someone broke into the day care and poured paint all over the floors, threw food on the kitchen floor and left the refrigerator door open so everything in there would spoil. Damage was estimated at $1,500.
Durant firefighters have been dispatched to several grass fires recently. What started as a controlled burn Saturday at 1901 Highway 48 got out of hand at 12:30 p.m., according to a fire department report. The grass fire scorched about an acre before it was snuffed out by firefighters.
Firefighters were dispatched at 4:51 p.m. Monday to a grass fire at 815 W. Beech St. The fire burned an approximate 20 by 40 foot area before it was quickly extinguished by firefighters.
Firefighters responded to another small grass fire at 5:20 p.m. that day in the alley behind the 700 block of West Beech Street.








