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Friday, January 16, 2015Area:
Omaha, NEPolice state the vehicle was driving northbound on North 48th Street at a high rate of speed around 10:15 p.m. when it went through the stop sign at Bedford Avenue and left the roadway. The Jaws of Life were required to remove two of the passengers from the wreck. Twenty-one-year-old Mary Winscot was treated for a broken foot, pelvis injury and a laceration to her neck. Twenty-four-year-old Sharonda Wishecoby-Lewis suffered a head injury and is in the Intensive Care Unit.
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Sunday, January 19, 2014Area:
Omaha, NEAt least 10 people have been hospitalized and others could be trapped after an explosion and partial building collapse Monday at an Omaha animal feed processing plant.
Interim Omaha Fire Chief Bernie Kanger said he's not sure how many workers could be trapped in the wreckage of the International Nutrition plant. The fire that followed the explosion around 10 a.m. has been extinguished, but firefighters gingerly searched the structure, fearing that more debris could rain down.
"It's very extreme conditions" inside the plant now, Kanger said. "There is significant structural damage inside."