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NewsJuly 14, 2002

LOMIRA, Wis. -- A deadly blaze that broke out when part of a massive printing plant collapsed was contained Saturday but firefighters could spend a week making sure flames are doused, officials said. Keith Freiberg, 22, an employee of Aero Building Maintenance, was trapped in a vehicle next to the plant and died in the blaze Friday night, said Brownsville Fire Company spokesman Bill Carter. The driver of the vehicle survived...

LOMIRA, Wis. -- A deadly blaze that broke out when part of a massive printing plant collapsed was contained Saturday but firefighters could spend a week making sure flames are doused, officials said.

Keith Freiberg, 22, an employee of Aero Building Maintenance, was trapped in a vehicle next to the plant and died in the blaze Friday night, said Brownsville Fire Company spokesman Bill Carter. The driver of the vehicle survived.

Quad/Graphics said only two forklift operators were in the newly completed addition to the plant, though some 330 people were working in other areas when the 10-story building collapsed and burned. No Quad/Graphics employees were injured in the blaze, Carter said.

Inglewood mayor wants calm, cameras in cars

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- Mayor Roosevelt Dorn on Saturday called for video cameras in police cars in the wake of the nationally televised videotape of a white police officer punching a handcuffed black teenager in the face.

Dorn also said he was confident Inglewood residents would not resort to violent protests of the July 6 incident.

"People across the country keep asking, when is the riot going to happen? ... That is not part of the agenda," Dorn told members of the National Alliance for Positive Action, a nonprofit civil rights group based here.

Illegal dump sickens firefighters in Colorado

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DURANGO, Colo. -- Fumes from an illegal landfill sickened firefighters at a wildfire in southwest Colorado and could contaminate a river, officials said.

Firefighters found the dump two weeks ago under a dam on land owned by the federal Bureau of Reclamation.

Six firefighters were treated at a hospital after breathing yellow smoke from the dump, said Wano Urbonas, environmental health director for the San Juan Basin Health Department.

The firefighters were battling two blazes near Durango that burned 71,000 acres. Durango is about 380 miles southwest of Denver.

Church van overturns, kills 12-year-old boy

PINE MOUNTAIN, Ga. -- A church van loaded with young people crashed after a tire blowout, killing a 12-year-old boy and injuring 12 other people.

The van was one of several carrying youngsters attending a youth conference at Bread of Life Christian Center. They were returning to Columbus from a water park in Marietta on Friday when a tire on the van blew out, sending the fully loaded 15-passenger vehicle skidding into the median, police said.

Harris County Coroner Lori Camp identified the victim as Anthony Williams, 12, of Urbana, Ill.

--From wire reports

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