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A new automated phone system will soon warn hundreds of people of emergencies, water boil orders and other important information.

The City Watch program will be used in Brooke, Hancock, Ohio and Marshall counties.

LYNN, Mass.

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Investigators are trying to determine what caused a raging blaze in Lynn two-family home Tuesday night that left three police officers injured after they rushed into a burning building to save the people trapped inside.

Seven people live in the house at 18 Clinton St., but only four were at home at the time the blaze broke out around 9:30 p.m.

Panicked neighbors alerted police to the two-alarm fire.

NAUGATUCK, Conn. --

Students were evacuated from City Hill Middle School in Nautatuck amid a fire Thursday morning.

The fire was reported in a custodial storage room at the building just after 9 a.m. Fire officials said the blaze, which was described as being small, was contained to the storage room.

Fire officials said there was extensive water and smoke damage to the second floor because the sprinkler system activated.

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla.

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A tractor-trailer hauling bananas blew a tire and overturned on Interstate 95 near International Golf Parkway early Thursday.

The Florida Highway Patrol said the crash happened at about 2:30 a.m. about three miles north of International Golf Parkway in the northbound lanes.

The truck was en route from Miami and rolled over onto its side. FHP said St. Johns Fire and Rescue had to get a ladder to get the driver out of the cab. He was not injured.

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Authorities in Westmoreland County said a man was killed when a mobile home he was preparing to move fell on him.

Officials said James Skovira, 48, of Acme, had been contracted to remove the single-wide home in the Hempfield Highlands mobile home park in Lincoln Heights.

High Park Fire Chief John Howell said the man was under the 1.5-ton mobile home trying to attach wheels to it when the jack he had used to prop it up slipped and he was pinned under the structure.

Nov. 3--Jackson County authorities say a small fire in a room at Microtel on Highway 71 near Interstate 10 Saturday began as the result of someone's attempt to make methamphetamine.

Two county residents have been arrested in the case and charged with the attempted manufacture of a controlled substance.

Sneads resident Alicia F. Baxter, 29, was arrested Sunday, but has since bonded out of jail.

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Nov. 4--HALTOM CITY -- Firefighters extricated a man who had his arm caught in a forklift Wednesday afternoon for almost an hour, a city official said.

The man, who authorities said is in his 40s, got his arm trapped in the forklift after he attempted to repair it, authorities said Wednesday.

The unidentified man was taken to a local hospital. His condition was unavailable.

The accident was reported about 1 p.m. in the 3200 block of Edna Drive.

WILSONVILLE, Ore.

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Firefighters rescued four people from the third floor of a burning apartment building in Wilsonville on Wednesday morning.

A Tualatin Valley Fire spokesman said no one was injured in the two-alarm fire at the Sundial Apartments, located at 7875 Southwest Vlahos Drive.

Fire crews were alerted to the blaze at about 9:43 a.m. and helped two adults and two children escape safely. A fifth person was able to lower himself out.

OMAHA, Neb.

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An Omaha fire captain has been banned from all city of Omaha buildings because of allegations that he threatened his boss, the Omaha fire chief.

KETV NewsWatch 7 has obtained the letter, which was issued by the city to Capt. John Gruttemeyer in late October.

According to the letter, Gruttemeyer allegedly said he would kill Chief Mike McDonnell if McDonnell messed with him. The alleged threat contained a expletive.

Gruttemeyer is a 22-year veteran of the fire department.