UPDATES FOR SOME RECENT POSTINGS

EARLIER TODAY WE POSTED THE STORY of a high rise fire in the Bronx (HERE) that has the photo of a woman holding a baby out a window for air while waiting for the firefighters.  Dave Statter at STATter911 has added the fireground audio of the incident and an interview with the woman who took the photo HERE.

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THE PATIENT IN THE JAMESTOWN, NORTH DAKOTA, ambulance that rolled over on Monday February 8 died three days later.  (see Firegeezer report HERE.)  The 92-yr.-old man was being transported from Jamestown to Fargo when the ambulance hit an ice patch on a highway bridge, went off the road onto the median strip, rolled over once and landed on its wheels.  KSJB radio news has the update HERE.

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DO YOU REMEMBER THE STRANGE MAYOR OF NEWTON FALLS, OHIO, who blocked a responding ambulance and wouldn’t move?  Firegeezer had a video report on January 16 (HERE) about the unusual event where the mayor stopped his car in an intersection “because that’s what you’re supposed to do” and prevented the ambulance from passing.  According to the ambulance driver, Mayor Layshock then cursed and gestured at the ambulance before finally pulling away and driving off.

On Tuesday of last week a judge issued a warrant for his arrest for disrupting public services, a 4th-degree felony.  The following day, Wednesday he voluntarily turned himself in to the police station where he was then released on a summons.  A court date has not been set.  The Tribune Chronicle has the latest chapter in this unusual STORY HERE.

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ONE OF OUR MORE UNUSUAL STORIES was reported in February of last year when an “exotic dancer” at the Babes ‘n’ Beer Sports Club in Tarzana, California, was set on fire by a disgruntled woman who had been refused employment there as a lap dancer.  See the story and photos in our first report HERE.  The woman who committed the crime was immediately identified and a few days later she was arrested and charged with attempted murder.  The victim, Roberta Dos Santos Busby, is a Brazilian national and was so severely injured with 2nd- and 3rd-degree burns over 40% of her body, that it was doubtful at first whether she would survive.

Roberta dos Santos Busby

The assailant was tried last week and on Thursday a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury found Rianne Celine Theriault-Odom guilty of aggravated mayhem and torture and acquitted her on the charge of attempted murder. She faces a life sentence in prison with the possibility of parole.  Sentencing is scheduled for March 4.

The Los Angeles Daily News has a good story on Busby’s ordeal, recovery and rehabilitation over the past year HERE.