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Janesville Fire Department Deputy Chief Jim Ponkauskas has been named interim chief of the fire department as the current chief, Ernie Rhodes, plans to leave next month.
City Police and Fire Commission member Tim Lindau confirmed the commission moved Wednesday to name Ponkauskas interim chief after Rhodes announced his pending resignation after holding the departmentâs top post for two years.
Rhodes wrote last week in a letter to Janesville City Manager Mark Freitag that Rhodes intends to resign effective Aug. 18.
Rhodes is taking a new job as fire chief in Clayton, Missouri, a small city in suburban St. Louis.
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oklahoma. at least 50 dead inlewding 20 children after a tornado in moore. andy banker is there live and joins us with the latest. andy? reporter: good morning, steve, gretchen, brian. we are in moore, oklahoma standing in a driveway right in front of what would have been the garage of the house that used to stand behind me. to give you an idea of just what happened here, the truck was parked in the garage. it was lifted, twisted, thrown into the house. if you can see the orange x on top of the hood, that means authorities have been through here. they have checked to see if there were survivors or bodies and moved on. so is the story as we work our way down the block, house after house after house after house. it s the same story. i ve got to watch where i m walking here. there are boards and nails all