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Omaha firefighter dies
after roof collapses
OMAHA — A firefighter died
Tuesday after he was trapped under a
roof collapse in a four-alarm fire.
Arson is suspected, and police ho
micide detectives were at the f re scene,
a Family Dollar discount store adja
cent to a pawn shop in a residential
neighborhood in the northeast part of
the city.
The victim, a 43-year-old captain,
was to be identified after all of his
relatives had been contacted, said bat
talion chief Don Nichols.
“Several firefighters from his unit
have headed to the hospital to be with
his family,” said Nichols.
At the hospital, a few weeping, soot
covered firefighters hugged each other
as they tried to make some sense of the
tragedy.
Nichols said the victim was leading
his unit about a half-hour alter the first
alarm, taking a water hose into the
blazing Family Dollar store when the
roof collapsed on him. He was inside
for some time before others pulled him
out, Nichols said.
“The firefighters that were on the
line managed to get him and pull him
out,” Fire Chief Tom Graeve said.
A fire department spokesman said
the victim was wearing full protective
gear. Dr. Joseph Stothert at University
Hospital said the firefighter suffered
severe smoke inhalation and burns. He
had been taken to University Hospital
in critical condition.
The fire was declared under control
shortly after 7:30 p.m. CDT, about 2 1 /
2 hours after it broke out.
It was the first time since 1989 that
an Omaha firefighter died in the line of
duty, fire officials said, and the 51st
death of a firefighter in the line of duty
in the city’s history.
Graeve said arson was suspected
in the fire that broke out just after 5
p.m. in the Family Dollar store and
spread to the adjacent Four Aces
pawn shop.
“We’re going to be here all night,”
said Nichols. “Firefighters are basi
cally containingthe fire tothe building
at this time.”
Mayor Hal Daub was out of town,
but an aide, John Packett, was at the
fire scene. <■
“We’re treating this as a crime
scene,” said Packed.
Before the fire was under control,
thick smoke rolled over the neighbor
hood and wind-whipped ashes and hot
debris showered down around houses.
Firefighters walked up and down streets
and through yards, making sure other
fires did not break out.
Hundreds of spectators lined streets
around the fire, with heavy smoke cov
ering a nearly six-block area.
Firefighters had to keep them away
from the fire and firefighting equip
ment.
About 60 to 65 Firefighters were at
the scene at the height of the blaze,
along with Omaha police officers, who
were called in the help control the
crowd and traffic.
There was no immediate word
whether the fire was connected to a
spate of arson Fires that had residents
of a separate Omaha neighborhood on
edge. People living in the Dundee
neighborhood were meeting Tuesday
night to talk about the incidents.
Dole’s worries focus
on reuniting GOP party
Bob Dole won Pennsylvania’s
presidential primary Tuesday but it
was of little solace to a campaign
trying to cure an internal Republi
can funk that has exposed doubts
about the nominee and the GOP’s
broader election strategy.
Dole clinched the GOP nomina
tion by winning 25 consecutive pri
maries in March, leaving little
drama for Pennsylvania — or the
11 presidential contests still to
come. Any chance for fireworks in
Pennsylvania ended with Pat
Buchanan’s decision not to cam
paign there, even though he remains
an active candidate.
Pennsylvania’s 73 GOPconven
tion delegates officially run uncom
mitted to any candidate, but many
were Dole backers and most, if not
all, were expected to back him at
the August GOP convention. Dole
entered the day with 1,202 del
egates, well beyond the 996 needed
to clinch nomination.
Early returns showed Dole hand
ily beating Buchanan. President
Clinton, who long ago clinched re
nomination, had no major opposi
tion and coasted in the Democratic
primary.
So predictable were the results
that Dole didn’t even stage a pri
mary night celebration, instead
thanking Pennsylvania Republicans
in a statement that ignored recent
turmoil in the Republican ranks over
Dole’s skills as a candidate and the
party’s strategy for dealing with
aggressive congressional Demo
crats.
“You showed that the Republi
can Party is unified, it is focused
and it is ready to take its message of
positive, conservative change di
rectly to the American people,”
Dole said.
That upbeat assessment ran
counter to this evaluation of the
Republican mood from a senior
Dole adviser: “It’s ugly out there.”
Indeed, it was House Speaker
Newt Gingrich who went so far as
to use the term “funk” — a word
President Clinton offered not too
long ago when he was trying to
explain his own political troubles.
“We are going through a Repub
lican period of being in a funk,”
Gingrich said Monday night. But
Gingrich reminded hi s audience that
if big early leads always held up,
the 1988 election would have pro
duced President Dukakis.
Still, there is no disputing that
Dole and his party have had a rough
stretch.
For starters, Dole’s early
clinching of the Republican nomi
nation hasn’t translated into mo
mentum: Recent national polls
show Clinton with as much as an
18-point lead over Dole in a head
to-head matchup, and a comfort
able lead in a three-way race with
Ross Perot.
Surveys also show persistent
doubts about the Republican Con
gress and high negative ratings for
Gingrich, whom Democrats try to
link to Dole at every opportunity.
Term-limits
amendment
declared dead
WASHINGTON — Popular with
the public, a proposed constitutional
amendment to place term limits on
members of Congress died Tuesday in
a Senate Democratic filibuster. Re
publicans sought political advantage
in the aftermath.
On a 58-42 vote, two short of the 60
needed, lawmakers refused to stop
debate on the measure. A short time
later, Majority Leader Bob Dole pulled
it from the floor.
“We’ll bring it up again next year if
need be,” Sen. Fred Thompson, R
Tenn., said shortly before the vote.
Elected to the Senate in 1994, Thomp
son led the fight for the measure, which
enjoys support in the 70 percent range
in public opinion polls.
All 53 Republicans and five Demo
crats voted to curtail debate on the
proposal. All the votes against were
cast by Democrats.
Term limits advocates outside Con
gress had long wanted a vote, the bet
ter to target candidates for the next few
election cycles.
Said Paul Jacob, head of U.S. Term
Limits, “I think those people who voted
no... are going to find that if they’re up
for election this year, this was not a
very good vote for them.”
The measure would have limited
senators to two six-year terms and
House members to six two-year terms,
effecti ve on the amendment’s rat i fica
tion by the required three-fourths of
the state legislatures.
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