Newspaper article The Florida Times Union
Rescue Truck Overturns on Wet I-10
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A Jacksonville fire-rescue truck taking a patient to the hospital ran off Interstate 10 and overturned about 1:45 p.m. Friday, the Florida Highway Patrol reported. No one was severely injured, the report said.
The Rescue 57 driver, Paul Brennan, was cited with careless driving, according to the report.
It was raining when Rescue 57 hit a concrete median a half-mile east of Lane Avenue, then drove across the eastbound lanes, left the road and rolled over on the highway's shoulder, according to investigators. No other vehicles were involved.
Brennan, 38, and crew members William Held, 44, and Eric Butler, 39, were taken to Shands Jacksonville with minor injuries, the report said. Patient Richard Ellis, 22, of Jacksonville, was also taken to Shands.
Steve Patterson
LIGHTNING-SPARKED FIRE DOES $200,000 IN DAMAGE
Lightning sparked a fire that caused about $200,000 worth of damage at a Baymeadows house about 5 p.m. Friday, fire department spokesman Tom Francis said.
Flames burned through the roof before firefighters got to the home in the 8600 block of Autumn Green Drive. No one was injured, Francis said.
Steve Patterson
COLUMBIA COUNTY
PERSON OF INTEREST CLEARED IN LAKE CITY SLAYING CASE
The Columbia County Sheriff's Office continues to search for the killer of a Lake City convenience store clerk after clearing a Valdosta, Ga., slaying suspect, Sheriff Bill Gootee said Thursday on his agency's Web site.
Daymon Heard, 20, is no longer considered to have possibly been involved in the July 22 fatal shooting of Linda Raulerson, Gootee said.
The Lake City grandmother was fatally shot during a robbery that netted the killer $47.
However, Heard is charged in the July 30 slaying of store clerk Jay Patel in Lake Park, Ga., south of Valdosta.
Heard was arrested on a warrant in the Georgia killing while at his girlfriend's Jacksonville home. He was extradited to Georgia after a court hearing in Jacksonville.
"Further investigation shows it is highly unlikely Daymon Heard is responsible" for Raulerson's death, Gootee said. …