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01-29-2006, 01:51 AM
News in brief from central Pennsylvania
The Associated Press
LEBANON, Pa. - A 12-year-old boy said he wasn't alarmed at first when his playful 7-month-old pit bull mix dogs jumped up on the couch he was sleeping on Thursday when he stayed home sick from Lebanon Middle School.
"They jump on me all the time," Vincent Nardone said. But this time, he said, "They wouldn't stop. I pushed them off and they jumped right up again."
That woke Nardone up enough to smell something burning, and when he looked around he found a second-floor bathroom filled with smoke. He quickly left the house with the dogs and borrowed a cell phone to call 911.
Vincent's mother, Gael Wilford, who had left minutes earlier for work, got a call during her six-block drive from police, who said there was a fire at her house and they had her son. Firefighters doused the blaze, which damaged the second floor and attic.
City Fire Commissioner Barry Fisher said old wiring probably was to blame.
The Associated Press
LEBANON, Pa. - A 12-year-old boy said he wasn't alarmed at first when his playful 7-month-old pit bull mix dogs jumped up on the couch he was sleeping on Thursday when he stayed home sick from Lebanon Middle School.
"They jump on me all the time," Vincent Nardone said. But this time, he said, "They wouldn't stop. I pushed them off and they jumped right up again."
That woke Nardone up enough to smell something burning, and when he looked around he found a second-floor bathroom filled with smoke. He quickly left the house with the dogs and borrowed a cell phone to call 911.
Vincent's mother, Gael Wilford, who had left minutes earlier for work, got a call during her six-block drive from police, who said there was a fire at her house and they had her son. Firefighters doused the blaze, which damaged the second floor and attic.
City Fire Commissioner Barry Fisher said old wiring probably was to blame.