The Point Rocks | radioNOVO News for Parkersburg, WV 07-07-26

Good morning.A state of emergency remains heavily enforced in Wood County as fire crews continue to battle a massive warehouse fire just outside the Parkersburg city limits. Officials have just issued a precautionary shelter-in-place order for residents within a quarter-mile radius of Staunton Avenue after environmental monitors detected elevated levels of toxic smoke particles. Specialized industrial crews are pumping nine thousand gallons of water a minute directly from the Little Kanawha River to suppress the collapsed Peoples Cartage complex. No injuries have been reported.Meanwhile, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston has officially installed the Most Reverend Evelio Menjivar-Ayala as its tenth bishop. Menjivar becomes the nation's first Salvadoran-born bishop to lead a diocese, pledging to actively support marginalized families.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.