Mother, daughter hospitalized with burns after East Palo Alto house fire
By Dan McMenamin
Two of the four are in the hospital because of the severity of their burn injuries.
EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. - A two-alarm residential fire in East Palo Alto on Thursday morning sent a mother and a daughter to the hospital and displaced 11 people, Menlo Park Fire Protection District Chief Harold Schapelhouman said.
The fire was reported at 6:34 a.m. on Almond Court and crews arrived to control the blaze by 7 a.m.
The mother suffered serioius burns, and the daughter suffered severe burns, Schapelhouman said. The two remained hospitalized Thursday evening.
Alex Salmond decided that there was little point in giving evidence to the Holyrood Harassment Inquiry yesterday, leaving an empty chair. He clearly thought that the chair could speak more eloquently than could under the circumstances. He may be right. The committee had refused to publish his submission of evidence (which had also gone to the parallel Hamilton Inquiry into whether or not Nicola Sturgeon broke the ministerial code). Now, every dog in the street knows what Mr Salmond s submissions say because they have already been widely published in the press. They were published in “redacted”, ie censored, form to protect the anonymity of complainants – so it is not entirely clear why MSPs had to pretend that they haven t seen them.
Morvant man gunned down at home
A 49-year-old Morvant man was shot dead at his home on Wednesday night.
Police said Russel Callender, aka Mickey, was in the bedroom of his Almond Court home at around 11 pm when a relative heard a gunshot.
Callender was found lying in bed with a gunshot wound to his head.
Another relative called police, who took Callender to the Port of Spain General Hospital, where he was declared dead.
Investigators from the Homicide Bureau Region I are continuing enquiries.