13 Homeless Following Sunday Fire
All Residents Were Able To Flee The Buildings Before Firefighters Arrived
Also on today’s menu:
Another Police Shooting In Walpole
Sanctions Against So-Called People’s Republics
Thirteen residents of apartments on Bay Street were left homeless by a four-alarm fire that tore through a house and damaged part of an apartment building next door early on the morning of February 20. All of the occupants were able to safely flee the buildings.
The 2:24 a.m. blaze at 17 Bay Street brought fire companies to scene where the rear of a two-story, single-family house with an attached barn was on fire. The rear portion of an apartment house next door, at 11 Bay Street, also was on fire.
The cause of the fire is under investigation by the State Fire Marshal’s Office.
Another Police Shooting In Walpole
A State Police trooper responding to a domestic violence call shot and killed a Walpole man in his home on February 20, the second police shooting on County Road in two months.
Officers arriving on the call were not wearing body cameras, and there was no cruiser video of the encounter with 57-year-old Christopher Tkal, who died of multiple gunshot wounds at 1461 County Road, according to a news release from the N.H. Attorney-General’s Office.
Police say they found a loaded rifle under Tkal’s body, and it will be tested at the N.H. State Police Forensic Lab to determine whether Tkal fired the weapon.
The earlier shooting occurred on December 4, when a State Police officer shot and wounded Jacob Gasbarro, 26, during a confrontation at another home on County Road. Gasbarro was treated at Cheshire Medical Center for the gunshot wound.
Sanctions Against So-Called People’s Republics
President Joe Biden signed an executive order imposing sanctions on two breakaway regions of Ukraine in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recognition of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics as “independent” states. Biden said that Putin’s action “contradicts Russia’s commitments under the Minsk agreements, refutes Russia’s claimed commitment to diplomacy, and undermines Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
The executive order is a less-severe measure than what U.S. allies were prepared to impose should Russia invade Ukraine, and limits action to the two disputed regions. It prohibits new investment by U.S. residents, importation of goods, services, and technology from those regions, and exportation of products to the regions. It also authorizes sanctions on people engaging in operations with the two regions.
The executive order makes exceptions for humanitarian aid to the residents of the self-declared independent regions.
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