Judge and former Kentucky gubernatorial candidate dies after saving wife from fire

Luke Gentile

October 21, 10:43 AM October 21, 10:43 AM

A former appeals court judge and gubernatorial candidate in Kentucky died Thursday after rescuing his wife from a house fire.

Tom Emberton, 90, acted fast when his Edmonton home erupted into flames at about 3:30 a.m., according to a report.

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"He heroically rescued his wife and got her to safety," Edmonton Mayor Doug Smith said.

"Then he went back in to save his home and lost his life."

Emberton ran for Kentucky's gubernatorial seat in 1971.

Although unsuccessful in the bid, Emberton was appointed to Kentucky's Court of Appeals in 1987, according to the report.

He was twice reelected to the Court of Appeals and served as chief judge of the appellate court until his retirement in 2004.

"Tom was just the greatest guy in the world to be around. He was infectious to everybody," Smith said.

"He had a way about him that was really special."

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) served on Emberton's gubernatorial campaign and spoke on his character.

"Tom gave me one of my earliest experiences in the rough and tumble reality of political campaigning, hiring me to work on his 1971 gubernatorial campaign," he said in a statement.

"He taught me valuable lessons on public service and running as a statewide Republican in Kentucky."

Emberton was married to his wife Julia for 65 years and had two children and five grandchildren.

Watch: Teenager leaps from window, will save neighbors from inferno with trampoline

Luke Gentile

August 03, 11:50 AM August 03, 11:50 AM

A teenager in Pennsylvania is staying praised as a hero right after he jumped from a window to enable neighbors trapped in an condominium fire that displaced at the very least 18 people.

Falon O'Regan, 17, went into action Tuesday when a hearth broke out in his Bentleyville condominium outdoors of Pittsburgh, according to a report.

The incident happened around 1:00 a.m., when O'Regan leaped from a window to help save his neighbors from the 3-alarm blaze.

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"Me and Robert, my neighbor downstairs, experienced to go the trampoline from the aspect of the home to the a few bedrooms on the final part of the household, for the reason that they would've gotten harm if we didn't," O'Regan reported.

The neighbors saw what the teen did for them and jumped, the report mentioned.

"You seem out the window and the fire's starting up by means of your doorway and you literally have fire coming at you and you have to bounce. You have to soar. There's no other option," Michael Groots, an apartment resident, said.

Authorities applauded O'Regan's steps.

"They prevented a great deal of injuries," reported Tim Miller, 2nd assistant fire chief for the Bentleyville Fireplace Office.

At minimum three folks have been dealt with for smoke inhalation, and one individual sustained a leg damage, according to the report.

"You are a hero, baby," O’Regan's mom, Becky Williams, explained.

“I'm very pleased of him. We're suffering losses since we assume we lost our cats. But he saved a whole lot of persons right now. I'm proud of him."

An investigation into the hearth remains ongoing.

California forest hearth burns out of manage in the vicinity of Yosemite

Connected Press

July 24, 01:30 PM July 24, 01:30 PM

MIDPINES, California — A damaging wildfire in the vicinity of Yosemite Nationwide Park burned out of control Sunday and has grown into 1 of California's major blazes of the year, forcing countless numbers of people to flee remote mountain communities.

Some 2,000 firefighters ended up battling the Oak Hearth, together with aircraft and bulldozers, struggling with tricky circumstances that involved steep terrain and spiking temperatures, in accordance to the California Office of Forestry and Fireplace Defense, or Cal Fire.

"Currently the temperature is envisioned to remain incredibly hot with minimal humidity amongst 5 and 10%, which will hamper firefighting endeavours," mentioned a Sunday early morning incident report.

The blaze erupted Friday southwest of the park in close proximity to the city of Midpines in Mariposa County. Officers described "explosive fireplace conduct" on Saturday as flames created runs by way of bone-dry vegetation caused by the worst drought in decades.

By Sunday the blaze had consumed additional than 22 sq. miles (56 square km) of forest land, with no containment, Cal Hearth stated. The bring about was underneath investigation.

Evacuation orders were being in put for more than 6,000 men and women living across a numerous-mile span of the sparsely populated spot in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a point out of crisis for Mariposa County due to the fire's outcomes.

Flames wrecked 10 household and commercial structures and weakened five many others, Cal Hearth said. Several roads were closed, including Condition Route 140 involving Carstens Street and Allred Street — one of the principal routes into Yosemite.

California has experienced ever more larger sized and deadlier wildfires in recent several years as local climate improve has built the West considerably warmer and drier more than the earlier 30 a long time. Experts have mentioned climate will continue to be more extraordinary and wildfires more regular, destructive and unpredictable.

Pacific Gas & Electric said on its internet site that far more than 3,100 households and corporations in the space had shed electric power as of Sunday and there was no indicator when it would be restored. "PG&E is not able to accessibility the affected equipment," the utility reported as flames roared Friday.

The Oak Fire was sparked as firefighters produced development versus an before blaze, the Washburn Fire, that burned to the edge of a grove of huge sequoias in the southernmost aspect of Yosemite Countrywide Park. The 7.5-square-mile (19-sq.-km) hearth was approximately 80% contained immediately after burning for two weeks and going into the the Sierra National Forest.

SEE IT: Hoover Dam transformer bursts into flames

Victor I. Nava

July 20, 03:55 AM July 20, 03:55 AM

A transformer caught hearth at the foundation of Hoover Dam on Tuesday, but the incident did not disrupt energy getting produced at the facility and no one was hurt.

The hearth and apparent explosion at the base of the 726-foot-significant hydroelectric electric power building facility was caught on online video by visitors who shared footage on the blaze on social media. The fireplace was extinguished roughly 30 minutes following the blast and posed no risk to the electrical power grid, in accordance to officers.

"At somewhere around 10 a.m. (PDT) the A5 transformer at Hoover Dam caught hearth and was extinguished by the Reclamation/Hoover fire brigade at roughly 10:30 a.m.," Jacklynn Gould, regional director for the Bureau of Reclamation, stated in a assertion.

"There are no accidents to visitors or staff. There is no chance to the electrical power grid and electrical power is nevertheless staying produced from the powerhouse. We are investigating the bring about of the fireplace and will deliver supplemental updates as they are available," Gould's statement concluded.

Video clip footage of the incident exhibit a fireplace and black billowing smoke increasing from a single of the dam's transformers around where by the Colorado River flows into the dam.

Holidaymakers viewing the facility situated on the Arizona and Colorado border explained they listened to an alarm seem and felt the floor rumble beneath them, according to the Associated Push.

“A ton of black smoke just exploded in the air. It seemed virtually like a mushroom and then a fire followed,” William Herro, 13, of San Francisco, informed the Related Press.

Hoover Dam began working in 1935. The facility is recognized as a Countrywide Historic Landmark, and it gives ability to 8 million men and women in Arizona, Nevada, and Southern California. The substantial dam is operated and managed by the Bureau of Reclamation.