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Good evening. Us army staff sgt. Matthew thompson graduated from brookfield central in 2006, where he was the captain of the Football Team and played trombone in school ensembles. Theyll be having a moment of silence at tonights Football Game to honor his sacrifice. Before Us Army Staff sgt. Matthew thompson was a bronze star medal winner, before he was a special forces medical sergeant, and before he even enlisted in the us army, he was a muchlo marquette university. i cant think of anyone that was as committed to living the best version of their life possible, every day. He was a remarkable human being and he will never be replaced. the university tells us thompson attended the school from the fall of 2006 until the spring of 2008. Manning says thompson then transferred to Concordia University in california. He graduated in 2010 and joined the army in march 2011. Thompson died on tuesday from wounds he suffered in afghanistan. In a statement, the commander of special Operations Task
People to hide. Your eyes are focused on the trail and you never know whose eyes could be focused on you. Heres another look at a sketch of a guy trying to attack a woman with a box cutter. It was around 6 30, the deputy was able to run away from the suspect. She didnt get hurt. That was here in leesburg near south king street. A second woman reported last wednesday, that was walking on the trail in the county when two guys came out of the woods, threw her down and tried to Sexual Assault her. She says a cyclist went by and the men ran off. Police told me they dont believe these two incidents are related. Of people that we have been talking to out here say theyre definitely thinking more about safety now and some are even making changes to their typicals routines i normally go out around 6 30 when i heard when the attack was, it made me not feel so safe about going onhe every day around this area and its a real shame because its so much fun run. , did you do anything different . I ran
The Fire Department says when they got here they assessed the situation and realized they had to call in the hazmat team a large tank was leaking some kind of a liquid or gas. Were not sure exactly which one. And they say there was some kind of potential for an explosion. Now, of course, this was a very fluid situation so earlier we were told there were evacuations. Now were being told that there were not evacuations but that the Fire Department was simply restricting access to two buildings and the streets of course you are now closed off to people and vehicles coming in and and out much the fire commissioner just gave us an update a short time ago. He was limited on specifics. Kept everything a little bit vague but he says theres no danger outside of this area. He says theres some kind of a chemical process going on in the area that they have blocked off and he says that officials are monitoring that situation until that chemical process runs its course. But he has not said and would
Intentionally . Reporter thats right. Dy just speak with the south bridge fire chief and tells us that this investigation is still ongoing. You can see that this scene is still somewhat active. The fire chief does tell us that he hiss local department and the state Fire Marshals Office are investigating this case. As of right now arson cannot be ruled out. Reporter flames shoot through a south b street sunday afternoon. The south bridge resident who shot this video was evacuated from her apartment. Her home wasnt damaged but her aunts salon was. We are totally, totally devastated. Reporter maria had been creating up her salon when the fire started. They name and told me i have on to get out that there was a fire in the alley. So i just went out because they said you have to get out right now. Reporter shes waiting everything is gone. Im very, very hurt. I want to tell all my clients that i dont know how were going to do it but they can call me and see what we can do because i loved eve