FRIDAY, JANUARY 25,2008 NEWS News-Leader


 PHOTO COURTESY OF NASSAU COUNTY FIRE RESCUE
 A Yulee home was destroyed Monday evening by a fire that
 reportedly started in the fireplace. All residents a woman
 and three children escaped safely, but they cannot live in
 the home.



 Fire displaces


 Yulee family
 SHANNON MALCOM the living room and saw a wall on
 News-Leader fire.
 The home was not equipped
 The American Red Cross is with smoke alarms, and there
 assisting a Yulee woman and three were no fire hydrants in the area,
 children after fire damaged their according to Elkins.
 home on A1A. Damage to the home and its
 Frank Elkins, fire investigator contents is estimated to be about
 with Nassau County Fire Rescue, $20,000.
 said the home's fireplace was the "Winter heating is a major
 origin of the fire that started about cause of residential structure fires,
 10:30 p.m. Monday. and we urge families to be sure to
 According to Elkins, when fire- have your chimney flue checked
 fighters responded to the home, before the heating season," said
 there were flames coming out the Nassau County Fire Chief Chuck
 windows. All four people in the Cooper.
 home Scheryronda Albertie and Cooper said about 40 percent
 three minor children escaped of the home had already been
 safely. destroyed by the time firefight-
 Albertie reportedly told fire- ers arrived on the scene.
 fighters she went to bed about 7 "Smoke alarms may have
 p.m. while the children were play- made the homeowners aware of
 ing inside the house. the devastating situation moments
 She woke up a few hours later before," he said.
 to the smell of smoke, went into smalcom@finewsleadercom



 Yulee man beaten
 Nassau County deputies found obvious broken leg with the bone
 aYulee man lying in the middle e of protruding from the skin below
S Second Avenue with a broken leg the knee," according to the report.
 in Callahan early Sunday morn- Drake said he'd been to a
 ing. house nearby, was involved in a
 The man, Steven Drake, 27, verbal fight with a female inside
 was lying on his stomach. He told the house, and then he left. He
 police someone had "jumped" him said the woman left the house in a
 and beat him with a sledgeham- vehicle, and a short time later he
 mer. -'" .." rsi, approached by two peop
 Drake's left 'pat"i leg xVas wh. beat him,.with a sledgehtn
 soaked in blood. When para- mer.
 medics got to the scene and cut his The case is still under investi-
 pant leg off, they could see "an gation.


Dog shot, veterinarian charged


 A Jacksonville veterinarian, was
arrested Jan. 17 for shooting and
killing the dog of a Callahan couple.
 John Alfred Farah, 53, is a vet at-
the Southside Animal Clinic in Jack-
sonville. He faces charges of aggra-
vated assault and animal cruelty.
 The shooting happened on Jan.
 10. Keith and Teresa Wingate, the
 dog owners, told police she took
 the dog, "Coco," for their regular




 Man held


 in fight


 at bar
 A Tennessee man was arrested
 last week after allegedly injuring
 two men, one seriously, in a bar
 fight.
 William Michael Tabit, 34, was
 arrested Jan. 16, hours after he
 reportedly struck two men in the
 head with a beer bottle at the Palace
 Saloon in Fernandina Beach.
 Police were called to the bar
 about 11 p.m.-Jan. 15, and witness-
 es said the suspect struck the two
 victims during a fight, then left the
 bar.
 Police determined Tabit was the
 suspect after a friend and coworker
 of his confirmed that he was
 involved in the altercation. Tabit
 was arrested at the Hampton Inn on
 Second Street where he was stay-
 ing. He was taken to the Nassau
 County Jail and has since been
 released on bond.
 He faces' two charges of aggra-
vated battery.
 One of the victims received
three staples to close a laceration on
his head.
 'The other victim was in much
 more serious condition," according
 to a police report of the incident
 filed by Detective Freddie Peake.
 "He was transported to Shands
 Gacksonville) ... where he under-
 went emergency surgery to relieve
 the pressure/swelling to his brain."
 The victim's skull was fractured,
according to the report.
 Fernandina Beach Police Capt.
 David Bishop said the victim who
 suffered only the laceration was
 released from the hospital that
 same night. The second victim who
 jJ 'fte dgd, o-r, s injuries has
0 rel eseas'efrom Shands to a
rehabilitation center in Jacksonville.
Bishop said he doesn't know his
prognosis.


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morning walk through the back of
their property that connects to the
Crawford Hunting Club. Wingate
said she was talking on her cell
phone when Coco went under the
.barbed wire fence onto hunting club
property; Coco was then shot by a
round from a "high-powered rifle."
 Teresa Wingate said she was
 standing about 10 feet away from
 the dog when it was shot; Wingate


started waving her arms and
screaming to keep the person from
shooting again.
 Keith Wingate heard his wife
screaming and joined her in their
back yard. A man holding a rifle,
who identified himself as "Farah,"
walked over to Teresa Wingate
moments after the shooting, but
denied having shot the dog.
 Keith Wingate asked to feel the


rifle to determine whether it had
recently been fired, but Farah
reportedly refused.
 "(Keith) Wingate stated 'Farah'
became very irate and stated, 'You
back up from me ...," according to
a report of the incident.
 Police believe John Farah is the
suspect. He has been released from
the Nassau County Jail on $15,004
bond.


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