Hope tied weeks after risking her own life trying to save two fellow Fire Fighters. Funeral arrangements for the 23 year veteran fire fighter are penning. Good afternoon im yan january carabao. Im greg argos. Ardyth is third Fire Fighters to died battling that blaze that was intentionally set. Press conference ended just a short while ago. We love ardyth hope. We will always remember her. And, maintain her honor. Reporter city of wilmington delaware and fire tenth mourning for the third time friday morning. Announcing the passing of senior fire fighter ardyth hope. Yesterday, december 1st, ardyth hope finally succumbed to her yours as she was received fighting a aron fire. Ardyth was the first female line of duty death in the history, and only second, african hearn line of duty father lieutenant james good junior. Reporter hope died thursday shore nine weeks after a fatal fire on lake view in wilmington which killed lieutenant christopher leach, and senior fire fighter jerry fickes jun
Family or was the home illegally divided. 16 people is a lot of people in a duplex. Its also a holiday. Reporter at least seven homes were damaged with items falling off walls. Crews went to check the stability of all of the structures. Houses behind the blast were also damaged. Windows came down and everything. But the house didnt go down, thank god. Thank god shes okay. Youre looking live back here at the scene. You can see the activity taking place right out here. You can see all that rubble and debris thats been pulled out of the house. Theyve been working to pull that out all afternoon. We did get word they were able to pull two dogs that survived the whole entire blast. They were in the home next door to the home that dogs were rescued and expected to survive. One man did die, a 24yearold man who lived in the second floor on the backside of the house where the blast occurred. That is the latest live from elizabeth, new jersey, anthony johnson, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Weve got
We have an accident on the southbound side of merrick parkway near exit 31. It is still being cleared and expect some delays. You can see a little delay building as you go in through that spot. If then on the cross county parkway going westbound, just west of the hutchenson river parkway. Another accident is being cleared. Now going into norrisburg and tunnel e. Avenue, check out the red line of volume right there. Once you pass that that delay continues up into 495 which of course is road that leads you to the lincoln tunnel. Lincoln tunnel is five minutes, the holland is five. The George Washington bridge you have just a minor delay there. Going to the Tappan Zee Bridge the speeds are down the 45 miles per hour. To 45 miles an hour. N. And q. Trains still some problems at avenue j. Street cleaning rules are in effect. Over to you. Breaking in newark a Police Officer interimmed a robbery and then shot and critically wounded a suspect at a gas station, this happened after midnight and
Bill ritter. Michael wright was a star in college and picked by the knicks in the nba draft. The university of arizona tweeting out the sad news tonight and now were learning disturbing information about the days leading up to his disappearance and his death. Eyewitness News Reporter aj ross in new jersey with new details. Right here at the Police Department is where Michael Wright was first reported missing just three days ago. Friends say basketball was his passion but it wasnt his life. A loving and devoted father whose kindness really touched everyone he came in contact with. His death, now being investigated as a homicide, has countless people heart broken. Reporter from the windy city to the big apple, Michael Wrights exceptional basketball talent took him all around the world. From his college days playing at the university of arizona to being draft today the New York Knicks in 2001 and later playing overseas. It basketball was his life but his greatest accomplishment he told me
Precinct this time police say he stole this greyhound bus, directly from the Port Authority terminal, and he high tailed it to brooklyn. Police say the bus arrived in new york from philadelphia at 11 00 a. M. It was slated to leave for another trip at 2 15 p. M. At 1 30 greyhound workers realized the bus was gone. Greyhound called their headquarters in texas, and it was quickly located in brooklyn. A spokesperson said because all the coaches are occupied with gps tracking mechanisms, the bus was recovered quickly. He was found driving the bus near 3rd avenue and union street. No passengers were on board. He has seemingly had a criminal fascination with all modes of transportation since he was a teen, racking up multiple arrests, and in 2004, for attempted theft for a Long Island Railroad train, in 2008 for impersonating a transit workerring and in 2010, he was arrested for stealing a trailsway bus from a depot in hoboken new jersey. Police say mccallum was wearing a fake badge when he