Funeral services set for slain Mo. firefighter

MAPLEWOOD, Mo. (AP) -- Funeral services are set for a rookie firefighter who was killed in an apparent ambush on emergency workers in the St. Louis suburb of Maplewood.

Visitation for 22-year-old Ryan Hummert will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Jay B. Smith Funeral Home in Maplewood. A funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Immaculate Conception Church, also in Maplewood. Burial is at Sunset Memorial Cemetery in St. Louis County.

Hummert died Monday. Two police officers were also shot.

Authorities on Tuesday recovered three long gun barrels and what are believed to be charred remains from the rubble of a burned house that was the site of the ambush.

St. Louis County Police spokeswoman Tracy Panus said investigators have finished sifting through the house debris. The St. Louis County medical examiner is looking at the remains. There is no word yet on their identity. But Panus has said investigators have no reason to believe they are those of anyone other than the homeowner.

The owner of the home, 52-year-old Mark Knobbe, had been cited by the city for tall grass and other property problems, as recently as the week before the shootings.