MAN DIES IN I-55 CRASH IN MISSISSIPPI AFTER FALLING ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, HITS A TREE AND HIS RV BURSTS INTO FLAMES

MAN DIES IN I-55 CRASH IN MISSISSIPPI AFTER FALLING ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, HITS A TREE AND HIS RV BURSTS INTO FLAMES

Posted: Jan 21, 2015 1:17 PM EST 

DESOTO COUNTY, MS (WMC) - 

Investigators are looking into a deadly crash on I-55 after a driver fell asleep behind the wheel.

The crash happened early Wednesday morning. 

A driver fell asleep behind the wheel of an RV on I-55 in DeSoto County, Mississippi early Wednesday morning. He was alone in the vehicle, which caught fire after the impact.

A photo from a WMC Action News 5 viewer shows the charred RV on the side on the highway.

Officials say the man was traveling alone when he hit a tree and died.

Investigators have not released his identity.

SUV CRASHES INTO PETA’S ECHO PARK OFFICE IN LOS ANGELES MOMENTS AFTER CAMPAIGNERS WERE SITTING IN THE AREA OF THE CRASH.

SUV CRASHES INTO PETA’S ECHO PARK OFFICE IN LOS ANGELES MOMENTS AFTER CAMPAIGNERS WERE SITTING IN THE AREA OF THE CRASH.

 January 16, 2015

Los Angeles, California

PETA provided this photo of an SUV that slammed into the organization's Echo Park office on Jan. 16, 2015. 

An SUV slammed into PETA’s Echo Park office Friday afternoon, crushing a couch where moments before campaigners were planning a Sea World protest, according to a tweet from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals‘ verified Twitter account.

The dark-colored Toyota appeared to be halfway inside the office, located at 2154 Sunset Blvd. (map), a photograph provided by PETA showed.

“PETA campaigners were planning #SeaWorld protest on THIS couch moments before,” PETA tweeted, along with the image pictured.

No one was injured as a result of the incident, which occurred around 10:30 a.m., the Los Angeles Fire Department tweeted.

PETA confirmed that all employees and dogs were OK.

FIVE INJURED AFTER POLICE CRUISER COLLIDES WITH 2 VEHICLES WHILE TRANSPORTING SHOOTING VICTIM

FIVE INJURED AFTER POLICE CRUISER COLLIDES WITH 2  VEHICLES WHILE TRANSPORTING SHOOTING VICTIM

Jan 21, 2015

NORTH PHILADELPHIA- Five people were injured early Monday morning after a serious accident involving a police cruiser. Two police officers were injured as a result of the three car crash.

The crash occurred shortly after 3:00 a.m. after police responded to a shooting on the 2900 block of Cumberland Street.

Police responded to the call to find a 24-year-old male shooting victim, who was shot in the legs 3 times.

According to the police, the officers put the shooting victim in their cruiser, and activated the cruisers lights and sirens, and began to transport him to Temple University Hospital.

En route to the hospital the cruiser was struck by a Lexus Sedan at 25th and Lehigh Streets. The impact of that collision then sent the cruiser into another collision with a Chevy Camaro.

Both of the officers and the shooting victim were transported to Temple University Hospital. All three of them are in stable condition

Neither the driver of the Lexus or the Camaro had driver's licenses, and both escaped with minor injuries.

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2 CITY BUSES COLLIDE IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND SENDING 25 PEOPLE TO HOSPITAL

2 CITY BUSES COLLIDE IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND SENDING 25 PEOPLE TO HOSPITAL

January 21, 2015

Baltimore, MD

Two city buses collided during rush hour in Baltimore, sending 25 people to the hospital, one in serious condition.

Capt. Roman Clark of the Baltimore Fire Department says the two Maryland Transit Administration buses crashed just after 7 a.m. Wednesday in west Baltimore. One bus was for people with physical disabilities.

He says 21 adults and four children were taken to the hospital. All but one of the adults had only minor injuries. Transit officials say none of the injuries was life-threatening.

More than an hour after the crash, workers were towing the larger of the two buses from the scene. The windshield and front-door windows were blown out. The front of the bus was mostly twisted metal and exposed wires.

Glass and chunks of metal were strewn about in the street.

The transit agency and city police are investigating the accident.

MASSIVE 7-ALARM BLAZE ENGULFS EDGEWATER, NEW JERSEY APARTMENT COMPLEX; OVER 200 APARTMENTS DESTROYED AND MORE THAN 400 PEOPLE EVACUATED

  MASSIVE 7-ALARM BLAZE ENGULFS EDGEWATER, NEW JERSEY APARTMENT COMPLEX; OVER 200 APARTMENTS DESTROYED AND MORE THAN 400 PEOPLE EVACUATED

UPDATE: OVER 200 APARTMENTS DESTROYED AND ONER 400 PEOPLE EVACUATED, ALONG WITH THEIR PETS.  THIEY ARE HOUSED AT WASHINGTON HS AND THE COMMUNITY CENTER ON RIVER ROAD.

January 21, 2015, 10:15 PM   

Edgewater, New Jersey

Firefighters are battling a five-alarm blaze at an Edgewater apartment complex Wednesday evening. The Avalon on the Hudson complex, at 102 Russell Ave., has been evacuated, according to authorities.

Flames and heavy smoke were pouring from the multistory buildings, and authorities were keeping people more than a block away from the fire.

In addition to the Edgewater Fire Department, firefighters from Hackensack and Englewood were at the scene. Fort Lee sent at least one ambulance, and the Bergen County Office of Emergency Management was on the scene.

The apartment complex is across the street from the Edgewater post office. it is not clear what sparked the fire, according to NBC 4 New York.

Images of Avalon of Edgewater prior to the fire are shown below.
 

A SECOND LAWSUIT HAS BEEN FILED AGAINST THE MANAGEMENT COMPANY AND OWNERS OF THE WEDGWOOD SENIOR LIVING APARTMENTS, THE CASTLE HILLS HIGH-RISE IN TEXAS WHERE A FATAL FIRE BROKE OUT LAST MONTH.

A SECOND LAWSUIT HAS BEEN FILED AGAINST THE MANAGEMENT COMPANY AND OWNERS OF THE WEDGWOOD SENIOR LIVING APARTMENTS, THE CASTLE HILLS HIGH-RISE IN TEXAS WHERE A FATAL FIRE BROKE OUT LAST MONTH.

January 21, 2015

 

A second lawsuit has been filed against the management company and owners of the Wedgwood Senior Living apartments, the Castle Hills high-rise where a fatal fire broke out last month.

The suit, filed by seven residents ranging from 59 to 86 years old, alleges that Wedgwood Senior Apartments LLC, Bellamar Texas LLC and Entrada Management Services Inc. were negligent in their maintenance and operations of the 11-story building.

“The Defendants failed completely in their duty to the vulnerable elderly occupants — with tragic and far-reaching consequences the full depths of which are not yet known,” the suit says.

The suit alleges that building managers did not enforce a no-smoking policy and that they did not have operable smoke detectors in every room. It also blames them for not having a sprinkler system, although Castle Hills regulations allowed the building to be grandfathered from installing the devices.

An attorney for the defendants said he had not seen the suit yet and could not comment. A spokesperson for Entrada Management did not immediately return a message.

Five people died in the Dec. 28 fire and a sixth person died two days later, although authorities have not said if that death was connected to the fire. Authorities are still investigating the cause.

Two dozen residents filed a lawsuit against the building owners and managers earlier this month.