JAMESTOWN A fire broke out Saturday morning at the Jamestown Golf Course that required mutual aid from three neighboring communities Newport, Middletown and North Kingstown before it was put down.
Deputy Fire Chief Howie Tighe told The Newport Daily News a pre-planned training exercise was taking place at the golf course at the time. The fire may have started out as a training exercise for Jamestown firefighters, but it was firefighting mutual aid for his department, a Middletown battalion chief said.
When Tighe was asked if the fire at the golf course got unexpectedly out of hand, he said that was not the case but did not give details before ending the call. He said a press release would be sent out later by Jamestown Police Chief Edward Mello.
Swansea man charged in fatal Newport crash
NEWPORT Police on Monday identified the 19-year-old woman killed early Saturday morning when the vehicle she was in crashed in the area of Brenton and Wickham roads.
Katelin Pimental of Middletown was one of five people in the vehicle and the only reported fatality. The vehicle she was in struck a “stationary object,” according to a press release sent out by Police Lt. April Amaral on Saturday.
Dekiah Laitola, 21, of Swansea, Massachusetts, has been charged with driving to endanger, death resulting, according to a press release from Newport police on Monday.
“[The] other occupants in the vehicle sustained minor injuries. The investigation is ongoing,” Amaral wrote in the press release Monday.