Elderly brother and sister killed in Chicago fire - 1/11/09 - Chicago News - abc7chicago.com
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Investigators are trying to determine what caused a house fire Sunday that killed an elderly brother and sister.Comment - Share
Investigators are trying to determine what caused a house fire Sunday that killed an elderly brother and sister.
Flames leaped from the second story of a house at 1911 S. Homan Avenue in Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.
The blaze broke out at approximately 2:20 a.m and quickly spread to two neighboring homes.
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CHICAGO --
Firefighters say they have found three young children dead in an apartment building that caught fire on Chicago's southeast side.
Fire Department spokeswoman Eve Rodriguez says the bodies of a 7-month-old baby, a 2-year-old and a 3-year-old were found on the third floor. The fire began Wednesday morning on that floor but the cause hasn't been determined.
A 4-year-old child found on the second floor was taken to a hospital in good condition.
Rodriguez said the mother of all four children was outside the building when firefighters arrived.
She said the only smoke detector firefighters found wasn't working.
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It’s Catching On
WATERLOO, ILLINOIS, FIREFIGHTERS KNOW THE DRILL by now.
Once again, a car has driven through the front wall of a store along Main Street.
In the past couple of years, cars have inexplicably plowed into a tavern, a print shop, a bank, a jewelry store and others. Thursday afternoon around 3:00 an elderly woman placed the marker in the drug store when she made a surprise appearance about 20 feet into the shop, stopping just short of the pharmacy counter.
When the police arrived a few minutes later, the car was wedged against the wall with her foot on the gas and the wheels still spinning. Aside from two patrons being hit with flying glass, nobody was hurt in the crash.
“They seem to be progressing up the street, heading south,” Waterloo Fire Chief Mark Yeager commented about the string of store attacks.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has the STORY.
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From 2006
Trial starts in wildfire that killed 5 firefighters
Raymond Lee Oyler faces 45 counts over 2006 Esperanza wildfire that killed five firefighters.
RIVERSIDE CA– A prosecutor told a jury Thursday that a 38-year-old defendant was “a man bent on destruction” who unleashed disaster by igniting a wind-driven wildfire that killed five U.S. Forest Service firefighters in 2006.
The characterization of defendant Raymond Lee Oyler was given to the nine-woman, three-man jury by Riverside County Deputy District Attorney Michael Hestrin as opening statements began in the potential death-penalty trial.
Oylerhas pleaded not guilty to 45 counts including murder and arson. Defense attorney Mark McDonald was to respond to the prosecution statement later.
Oyler,an auto mechanic, claims he had been watching his 7-month-old baby at home and then went to a casino when the Esperanza fire began on Oct. 26, 2006, as fierce Santa Ana winds roared through Southern California.
The crew of San Bernardino National Forest Engine 57 was overrun by flames while defending an unoccupied, isolated home in the San Jacinto Mountains about 90 miles east of Los Angeles.
Prosecutors say Oyler is a serial arsonist who set 23 blazes, including the Esperanza fire, in 2006 by using red-tipped wooden matches bundled around a cigarette with rubber bands or duct tape.
However, Superior Court Judge W. Charles Morgan dealt the prosecution a blow last week when he ruled jurors will only hear evidence tying Oyler to two other fires.
Hestrinhas said more extensive evidence would be presented at the trial but declined to elaborate.
McDonald, however, wants to admit into evidence that a Forest Service investigation found another possible arsonist - a firefighter who worked in the area when the suspicious fires started.
The Esperanza fire was reported at 1:11 a.m. PDT. According to a report summarizing Oyler’s interviews with police, he told investigators that after watching the baby at home in the city of Banning he went gambling at the Morongo Indian Casino & Spa, then stopped at a gas station before heading toward the Esperanza fire to watch it.
The fire began on a hillside in the town of Cabazon and spread quickly from a valley floor up the north side of the mountains to the widely dispersed rural community of Twin Pines at an elevation of about 4,000 feet.
Engine 57’s crew was overrun about 7:15 a.m. as they defended a home perched at the top of a steep drainage. Three firefighters died there and a fourth died soon after at a hospital. The fifth died five days later, the same day Oyler was arrested.
The blaze also destroyed 34 homes and 20 outbuildings.
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