King George Fire & Rescue, Inc.

A Jefferson Township firefighter's home was destroyed by flames yesterday afternoon, according to The Elkhart Truth.

A firefighter battling the blaze was transported to Goshen General Hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation, Assistant Chief Jeremy Martin told the newspaper.

No one was in the home at the time of the fire and a small black dog was rescue from the residence.

The Hempstead Fire Department chief and a New York City firefighter were arrested and charged with frisking and menacing a man by holding him at gunpoint on a Hempstead street Sunday, police said.

A Fire Department of New York spokesman, Steve Ritea, said that Brian Schuck, 33, a nine-year veteran of the FDNY who works for Ladder 111 in Brooklyn and lives in Freeport, was suspended without pay for 30 days.

Facing a shrinking number of options to close a budget gap that could grow to $600 million in the next fiscal year, the Los Angeles City Council is weighing whether to deactivate 10 rescue ambulances at night.

Council members postponed a decision Tuesday amid confusion about how the proposal would affect response times and after listening to the tearful testimony of a man whose father recently died of a heart attack.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As the investigation into the death of Stephanie Stephens continues, a top official at Children's National Medical Center has made his views about the case known. In a letter to the editor in The Washington Post, Dr. Joseph Wright said, "The decision not to immediately transport a 2-year-old with respiratory symptoms is inexcusable."

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Fire Chief Seth A. Knipe said he takes full responsibility for problems that occurred in billing for the Fire Department ambulance service, but believes the problem could have been handled without a police investigation.

"I'm not hiding behind anything," he said. "As chief, the buck stops here.