BRIEFLY : ARSON SUSPECTED IN SOMIS SCHOOL FIRE.SOMIS - Arson is suspected in a fire that caused $15,000 worth of damage at Dos Caminos Elementary School elementary school: see school. early Thursday, officials said. The blaze started in a cardboard box cardboard box n → caja de cartón cardboard box n → (boîte f en) carton m cardboard box card n → filled with clothing which was left outside a lost-and-found bin at the school's administration building at 3635 Appian Way Appian Way (ăp`ēən), Lat. Via Appia, most famous of the Roman roads, built (312 B.C.) under Appius Claudius Caecus. It connected Rome with Capua and was later extended to Beneventum (now Benevento), Tarentum (Taranto), and , the Ventura County Fire Department Not to be confused with Ventura Fire Department. The Ventura County Fire Department (VCFD) provides fire protection and emergency response services for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, and for six other cities within the county. said. Firefighters responded to the call at 1:06 a.m. and contained the fire by 1:18 a.m. Three fire engines and a truck were sent. Damage to the office was estimated at $10,000, with damage to its contents set at $5,000. - Daily News T.O. man's condition upgraded after crash The condition of the Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. man who was injured when the U.S. Army helicopter he was in crashed in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , which killed two and injured one other, has been upgraded, officials said. The condition of the man, Capt. Dean Turco, 37, was listed as stable critical Thursday, an upgrade from his listing as critical guarded on Wednesday. Turco, who is a member of the National Guard, is at Stony Brook Hospital, New York, following the crash on Long Island on Tuesday night. - Daily News Oxnard man killed by truck VENTURA - A pickup truck hit and killed an Oxnard man as he walked in a traffic lane on Main Street early Thursday, police said. Randall Anthony Betancourt, 20, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which occurred in the 1300 block of Main Street near Aliso Lane about 2:15 a.m., the Ventura Police Department said. Witnesses told investigators that Betancourt was staggering in the street and several vehicles had nearly hit him before he was fatally struck by the truck. Police said it appeared that he had been drinking alcohol before the accident. - Daily News |
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