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Dec. 22--Suicide-by-cyanide is extremely rare -- only four cases in the country -- the FBI told Sugar Creek authorities.
"Unfortunately, number 4 was here," Sugar Creek Police Chief Herb Soule said today.
Also unfortunate is that four emergency responders and a relative of the victim were also exposed to the hydrogen cyanide a 59-year-old man used to kill himself Monday morning. A firefighter and three police officers were treated at a hospital as a precaution, Soule said.
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Dec. 29--A Boardman firefighter, a woman and a toddler suffered minor injuries Monday afternoon when a car on Interstate 84 near Tower Road hit a Morrow County sheriff's patrol car that was stopped for another accident.
Firefighter Rick McKee, 22, of Boardman, was knocked down by the front of the patrol car after a vehicle driven by Sierra Ames, 18, of Pendleton, crashed into it. McKee did not need medical attention.
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Dec. 30--WARREN TOWNSHIP -- A firefighter was injured Tuesday afternoon when the roof of a house at 8450 Ward Drive partially collapsed on him.
"He'll be all right," Dusty Stoner, chief of Mercersburg Montgomery Peters and Warren Fire Company, said following the incident.
The firefighter, whose name was not released, was taken to Chambersburg Hospital for smoke inhalation and a few bumps and bruises. Stoner said no other firefighters were injured in the partial collapse.