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Over 250 firefighters responded to the emergency call at 285 Grand Street, a six-story residential building that also contains commercial space.
At its fiercest, flames shot up 20 to 30 feet from the roof of the building.
According to BNO News, the 911 call came in at 10:14 pm and fire crews were on the scene at 10:16 pm.
At least seven firefighters and one civilian were injured. The building's residents have all been evacuated.
More details to come.
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Eleven people have been injured by the fire, including a fireman burnt fighting the blaze.
Apr. 12: Firefighters attempt to put out a large blaze near 285 Grand Street in New York City.
More than 250 firefighters are battling a massive fire in New York's Chinatown, on Manhattan's lower east side, a New York Fire Department spokesman said Monday.
The alarm was first raised at 10:14 p.m. ET Sunday, when the out-of-control blaze quickly escalated to a seven-alarm fire at a six-story building on Grand Street.
Eleven people have been hurt during the fire including a fireman burnt fighting the blaze, the NYFD spokesman said.
Six other firefighters, a paramedic and three civilians -- including a 92-year-old male who suffered a "cardiac condition" -- have also been injured.
Residents of the building, which is mostly residential, have been evacuated.
Carrey, 48, tweeted that Nordegren should have been aware of her husband's marital indiscretions.
The actor, who currently stars in "I Love You Phillip Morris", wrote that no wife should have missed that much infidelity".
He said: "No wife is blind enough to miss that much infidelity. Elin had 2 b a willing participant on the ride 4 whatever reason. kids/lifestyle."
The Liar, Liar star, who recently split from Jenny McCarthy after five years, added that Nordegren, 30, would have been wise to keep quiet for the sake of their children.
Carrey's tweet received a volley of critical responses from other "twitterers" forcing him to defend himself.
He insisted that he did not condone infidelity.
In a tweet on Friday Carrey wrote "Tiger Woods owes nothing 2 anyone but himself."
He added: "I want 2 make it CLEAR that I do not condone infidelity at all, but 2 some degree the responsibility 4 it is shared by both people."
Tiger Woods, 34, returned to competitive golf at the Masters this weekend following a five month lay-off where it was rumoured he attended a clinic for sex addicts after a string of women came forward alleging affairs with the 14-times major winner.
Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in "The Wizard of Oz" and proclaimed in the movie that the Wicked Witch of the East was "really most sincerely dead," has died. He was 94.
His caregiver, Cindy Bosnyak, said Raabe -- pronounced RAH'-bee -- died Friday morning at a hospital in Orange Park, Fla. He was one of the few surviving Munchkins from the 1939 film.
Bosnyak said he complained of a sore throat at his retirement community before collapsing and going into cardiac arrest. He was taken to Orange Park Medical Center, where he later died, she said.
"He had a headful of hair at 94 and he ... remembered everything everyday," she said. "To me he was a walking history book, very alert."
Raabe was one of the 124 Munchkins in the film classic and one of only nine who had speaking parts. He was 22 years old and a show business veteran, earning money for college as a "midget" performer, as they were called then, when the movie was shot in 1938.
Raabe portrayed the diminutive Munchkin official who solemnly pronounces the witch dead after Dorothy's farmhouse lands on her: "As coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her, And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead."
His costume included a huge hat with a rolled brim, and dyed yak hair was used for his handlebar moustache and long beard.
In a 1988 Associated Press interview, he said he had no idea the movie would become a classic, because at the time of its release, it was overshadowed by "Gone With the Wind."
"It was only after CBS got the film in 1956 and used it for their promotions that it became as well known," he said.
"There is nothing in the picture that dates it," he said. "There are no old vintage cars or old vintage streetcars. ... It's a fantasy picture that will be fantasy for generations to come."
Raabe was about 31/2 feet tall when the movie was made. He eventually grew to about 41/2 feet. He toured the country for 30 years in the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile, promoting hot dogs as "Little Oscar, the World's Smallest Chef."
He also enjoyed going to Oz nostalgia events and getting fan mail.
"It's an ego trip," he said. "This is our reward, the nostalgia."
In 2005, his book "Memories of a Munchkin: An Illustrated Walk Down the Yellow Brick Road," co-written by Daniel Kinske, was published. In later years, he lived in a retirement community in Penney Farms, Fla.
In 2007, Raabe was one of seven surviving Munchkins on hand when the Munchkins were honoured in Los Angeles with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Raabe said he couldn't remember what he was paid for his role in the movie, but that it was very low.
"By today's standards, people would say you were crazy to work for that," he said.
Raabe, born in Watertown, Wis., in 1915, was a member of the Midget City cast at the Chicago World's Fair in 1934. He also performed at other fairs, including the San Diego Exposition in 1935.
"By working at these world's fairs as a midget, I was able to work my way through the university," Raabe said. He earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Wisconsin and, years later, a master's degree in business administration from Drexel University.
Raabe married Marie Hartline, who worked for a vaudeville show called Rose's Royal Midget Troupe, in 1946. She died in a car crash in 1997.
Raabe said some little people resented the word "midget," but that was the description widely used when he was in show business.
"My wife and I were both in show business, were both midgets. My wife worked from 1929 to 1932 as a member of Rose's Royal Midgets, the largest midget troupe in vaudeville," he said.
Raabe became a regular visitor to the annual OzFest in Chittenango, N.Y., the birthplace of "Oz" author L. Frank Baum, after reading about it in a magazine in the late 1980s.
"Meinhardt wrote us a letter and said, 'You know I'm a Munchkin. I was in this movie. Would you ever be interested in having me come.' Of course, after we stopped screaming ...," organizer Barbara Evans said in 1998.
"Things didn't start to get really big until Meinhardt first came and we started getting the Munchkins to come," said Evans.
Fire destroys home on Grand Avenue
Updated: Friday, 09 Apr 2010, 11:26 PM EDT
Published : Friday, 09 Apr 2010, 5:39 PM EDT
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - A fire destroys a Terre Haute home.
It happened around 5:00 Friday evening at a home on Grand Avenue.
The home was fully involved in flames when firefighters arrived.
At one point, all fire crews had to be called out from the inside of the home because it was too dangerous. Crews continued to fight the fire from the exterior.
Terre Haute Fire Chief Jeff Fisher says two boys who live in the home reported the blaze.
"The boys were outside playing basketball and one of them said they noticed some smoke and flames around a bail of hay on the outside of the house," said Fire Chief Jeff Fisher. "That's under investigation to find out exactly what happened there."
All of the residents of the home and all pets were able to get out safely. No one was injured in this blaze.
NORMAL — Appropriately, the three seniors took away most of the awards Monday night during the Illinois State Basketball Celebration at Redbird Arena.
After an eventful weekend, one senior had even more reason to celebrate.
Osiris Eldridge saw his possibility of being picked in the NBA Draft improve after an impressive performance during the Portsmouth (Va.) Invitational Tournament for 64 of the nation’s top seniors.
Eldridge averaged 14.3 points as his team fell in the championship game, but he thought it was more than scoring that helped him stand out.
“They said I’m a great combo guard because I can guard two positions, point guards and big shooting guards,” said Eldridge. “That’s what I did and picked up full court and tried to play my best offensively.” (more at story link above)
Yes Man is a 2008 comedy film directed by Peyton Reed, written by Nicholas Stoller, Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel and starring Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, John Michael Higgins and Rhys Darby. The film is based loosely on the true story and 2005 book Yes Man by British humourist Danny Wallace (who has a cameo appearance in the film).
The film was a box office success despite receiving mixed reviews from critics. It was released on December 19, 2008, opening at #1 at the box office in its first weekend with $18.3 million and was then released on December 26, 2008 in the United Kingdom going straight to the top of the box office in its first weekend after release. Production for the film began in October 2007 in Los Angeles, CA.
Chuck is an action-comedy television program from the United States created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working in the CIA; the message embeds the only remaining copy of the world's greatest spy secrets into Chuck's brain.
Charles Irving "Chuck" Bartowski is the main character of the American fictional television show Chuck on NBC. He is portrayed by Zachary Levi.
At the outset of the show, Chuck Bartowski is presented as a twentysomething underachiever who works at the local Buy More in its Nerd Herd division (a fictionalized Geek Squad). Chuck's life stalled after his college roommate, Bryce Larkin, planted test answers under Chuck's bed and then reported him to the officials, which led to Chuck's expulsion from Stanford University in 2002 — only twelve credits shy of completing his bachelor's degree. He also lost the love of his life: college girlfriend, Jill Roberts (Jordana Brewster). Following his expulsion, Chuck moved in with his sister and began working at the Burbank, California branch of Buy More. At some point over the next five years Chuck became the Nerd Herd supervisor. In the pilot, which picks up five years later, the viewers are introduced to the key persons in Chuck's current life: his older sister, Eleanor Fay "Ellie" Bartowski, M.D., (Sarah Lancaster), her live-in boyfriend, Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb and Chuck's best friend since childhood, Morgan Grimes. Little else is known about Chuck's family except that his mother left when he was in fifth grade and that his father Stephen Bartowski was "never really there," and left for good sometime before Chuck completed high school.
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In many episodes Chuck has adopted a fantasy alias, "Charles Carmichael," who is endowed with all of the characteristics he believes a super-spy should have, except he doesn't really have the physical abilities to go with the skills. "Imagine Clark Kent removing the eyeglasses, but still wearing kryptonite underwear." Carmichael has been referred to as where Chuck thought he would be by this time in in his life had he not been expelled from Stanford: a millionaire semiretired software magnate. Ironically, his fantasy alias has gained actual respect in the spy community: in "Chuck Versus the Predator," Fulcrum agent Vincent told Chuck he's heard of him.
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An eighth-grader in the Johnson County town of Joshua hanged himself over the weekend, and - like other recent child suicides - his death is being linked to bullying.
Jon Carmichael, a 13-year-old student at Loflin Middle School, committed suicide in a barn near his home, KDFW-TV (Channel 4) reports.
The boy's family says Jon was bullied at school, including being stuffed into a trash can during gym class.
The school district's superintendent told KTVT-TV (Channel 11) said he just heard about the trash can incident this week and that it's under investigation.
The boy's suicide follows the February hanging death of 9-year-old Montana Lance of The Colony, as well as the highly publicized Massachusetts case of a 15-year-old Irish girl who was bullied before hanging herself in January.
Know then that I have sent this commandment unto you, that My covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
My covenant was with him of life and peace, and I gave them to him, and of fear, and he feared Me, and was afraid of My name.
The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips; he walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and did turn many away from iniquity.
For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
Malachi 2:4-7
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