Fire News For January 27, 2009

2 dead in apartment fire Authorities are investigating whether two victims in a Burnsville apartment fire may have died from a cause other than the fire.
Firefighter hurt in Hartford ALAN CHANIEWSKI A Hartford firefighter was injured during the blaze at 166 Martin Street. The injured firefighter was treated at the scene by his colleagues and medics then taken by ambulance to an area hospital.
Fire destroys house A rental house was completely destroyed by fire early Sunday morning, despite efforts by roughly 50 firefighters from four area fire departments.
Rescue made in Buffalo Buffalo firefighters rescued a tenant trapped on the balcony of his burning fourth-floor apartment Sunday night at the Shoreline Apartment complex on Niagara Street.
9 hurt in bus crash Authorities say nine passengers on a casino bus were injured Sunday in a crash at the intersection of Old Mississippi Highway 61 and Casino Center Parkway in Tunica.

DENVER Nuclear waste has nothing on terrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay.
With President Obama’s vow to shutter the military prison in Cuba, the race to block the detainees from a facility near you has erupted, and Republicans are quickly trying to score political points by seizing on the new administration’s developing plan for the 245 terrorism suspects.
Colorado Republicans attacked the state’s Democratic governor, Bill Ritter Jr., for statements in support of bringing terrorist detainees to a “supermax” (facility in Florence, Colo., which, by the way, already is home to Zacarias Moussaoui, convicted as a Sept. 11 attack conspirator; Ramzi Yousef, who plotted the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; and Richard Reid, who attempted to use a shoe bomb to blow up a jetliner over the Atlantic Ocean.
But despite the rogue’s list of inmates there, Republican lawmakers pounced on Gov. Bill Ritter Jr.
“It’s clearly irresponsible of Governor Ritter to roll out the welcome mat for enemy combatants to come to Colorado,” said Republican state Rep. Cory Gardner, a leader of the petition drive. “His decision, without consulting the state legislature or local governments, to import terrorists into the state, is obviously a problem.” LINK


FDNY - Bronx Concourse Second Alarm VIDEO
January 25, 2009 [Date of Fire]
FDNY firefighters went to work on a top floor job in The University Heights Section of the Bronx on 144 East 182nd Near the Grand Concourse. Early reports place fire on the top floor and cockloft of a 6 story brick building.