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CITYWIDE
Weprin Plan Would Aid Volunteer Ambulance Companies
Council Member David Weprin announced yesterday at City Hall legislation aimed at improving benefits for the city’s 27 volunteer ambulance companies. “Emergency Service Volunteers are the first in our last line of defense when tragedy strikes,” Mr. Weprin said. Mr. Weprin’s plan would allow ambulances to buy diesel fuel from the city at wholesale rates, provide workers’ compensation benefits for ambulance volunteers injured in the line of duty, and provide volunteers with unlimited-use Metrocards for access to the subways during emergencies. If implemented Mr. Weprin’s plan would cost the city around $250,000, aides said.
— Special to the Sun
Central Park Rink Opens Today For Season
The Wollman Rink in Central Park is celebrating the 20th anniversary of when developer Donald Trump renovated and reopened it after the city couldn’t. The 2006 ice skating season at the ice skating rink, one of the country’s largest ice surfaces, is to begin today. After a five-year rebuilding job bungled by the city resulted in a slushy rink, leaky pipes, and cracked concrete, Mr. Trump took over the renovation in June 1986 and promised to wrap it up by that Thanksgiving. Mr. Trump, who didn’t even know how to skate, did just that, reopening on November 13, 1986, with new cooling, lighting and music systems, a new skating house, and a restaurant. The rink had been closed since 1980.
— Associated Press
Brooklyn Fire Deemed Suspicious
A 39-year-old woman is dead after a fire in a Brooklyn row house that officials have deemed suspicious, police and firefighters said. The mid-morning Saturday fire occurred in the Highland Park neighborhood. The victim was identified as Gladie Doxa. Officials said earlier that fire marshals had deemed it of suspicious origin. According to published reports, the fire broke out about an hour after Doxa returned to her apartment on the top floor of the three-story row house, and was controlled in 20 minutes. The victim, found in the apartment, was pronounced dead at the scene.
— Associated Press
Search at Ground Zero Turns Up More Remains
More bones believed to belong to September 11 World Trade Center attack victims were found yesterday as the city continued searching underground areas that were apparently overlooked during the excavation years ago. Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler, who is overseeing the recovery effort, said yesterday that search officials had identified additional manholes and utility cavities that need to be examined. The medical examiner’s office said 18 were found yesterday and the total cache of discoveries includes tiny fragments to recognizable bones from skulls, torsos, feet and hands. Some are as large as whole arm and leg bones. “They will go through every grain, every piece of material carefully, and sift through it,” Mr. Skyler said. Days ago, crews doing routine work at the site opened one of those manholes and discovered human bones inside, setting off an expedition for other remains.
— Associated Press
POLICE BLOTTER
Baby’s Brain Damaged After Assault
Police are investigating what they believe to be an assault on a 5-month-old that has left the infant brain damaged and unable to breathe on his own. According to police, the infant is in critical condition at Schneider Children’s Hospital on Long Island. Meanwhile, police are looking for the baby’s parents, whose whereabouts are not known. Police said the 5-month-old was initially brought unconscious to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center around 4:30 p.m. Friday from a residence on Highland Boulevard in the Highland Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. Police said they did not know who brought the infant to the hospital. The baby was transferred to the Long Island hospital Saturday because of his condition. In a statement released yesterday, officials at Jamaica Hospital defended speculation that they did not immediately alert authorities about the assault, saying. “After reviewing this case, the hospital is confident that all necessary precautions were followed, and at no time were there any outward indications of abuse.”
— Special to the Sun