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tonight a huge fire collapses the home of a well-known community activist. and seeing her home in ruins was too much for dorothy brazil to take. it was a brick building that was a significant part of the city s architecture. that fire brought out both the mayor and the fire chief to the scene. jackie benson now with more on the story. jackie. reporter: dorothy brazil and her family have lived in this house, there is no house left now, nthey have lived there sine long before columbia heights became the fashionable place it is now. the blaze consumed the large brick home in the 1300 block in northwest, feeding on the dry seasoned wood of century old beams. then it gave way. thousands of pounds of brick and flaming wood pancaked, collapsing to the ground. not long afterward, the homeowners who had been in rockville when the blaze broke out arrived at the scene. i m dorothy. the unflappable dorothy brazil was true to form, no hysteria, no tears, just the facts, plea ....
put him on two years supervised probation, demanded that he do 400 hours of community service and pay $5,000 to the victim s fund. this came after about an hour presentation by arenas defense attorney and even arenas himself, standing in front of a judge saying i m very sorry all this happened. every day i wake up and i wish it didn t. he said by lying about what happened, he was out to protect his family, his teammates. he said he would rather keep a friend and a teammate and lose everything else. it was an emotional day for gilbert arenas here in this courthouse. again, a judge sentencing him to 30 days at a halfway house, putting a suspended 18-month prison sentence, two years supervised probation, 400 hours of community service, and a $5,000 fine to the victim s fund. now this comes after the prosecution had asked the judge to sentence arenas to jail for three months as a result of this gun incident last year at the verizon center. we re here gathering reaction. i ....