NEW YORK (AP) -- A battalion chief who had been considered a rising star in the Fire Department of New York was killed Tuesday when a row house exploded as he was supervising an evacuation following a report of a gas leak, and authorities are looking into whether the building was being used to grow marijuana....
House Explosion Kills Fire Battalion Chief, A Rising Star
By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press: Nation
Tue, 09/27/2016 - 12:18pm
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