Pup is revived after fire

The pup appeared lifeless when rescued Thursday evening from a burning Weston home, fire officials said.

But with a little CPR and oxygen, Sugar, a 7-year-old Havanese, was resuscitated and revived, said Battalion Chief Michael Kane, spokesman for Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue.

“Once removed, the dog showed no signs of life, but was successfully revived by firefighters who administered CPR and provided oxygen,” he said.

Several birds died in the fire at 910 Briar Ridge Road in the Savannah Falls subdivision, Kane said.

One of the home’s four residents reported the fire when she got home about 5:36 p.m. and saw smoke, Kane said. synagogue were not able to identify the person who had the gun.

So authorities turned their attention on searching classrooms inside the school’s building. They didn’t know until hours later the student had already left the school campus as part of the evacuation, leaving his “airsoft” gun behind, Glassman said.

Rabbi Michael Gold said students from Millennium were taken into the synagogue’s social hall while the synagogue’s own preschool students were in locked rooms.

Parents posted pictures on Facebook of their children huddled in bathrooms it a public facility.

In related business, commissioners heard the last of 17 proposals to redo the closed golf course, which will be renamed Boca National Golf Club. The district plans to narrow the list

during the lockdown.

But Glassman said he didn’t know whether the middle school student they were looking for ever went inside the synagogue.

In addition to Millennium and the preschool, the March 15 lockdowns happened at Challenger Elementary in Tamarac, as well as Discovery Elementary, West Pine Middle, Banyon Elementary and Village Elementary, Sunrise police said.

Glassman said deputies searched the backpacks the students were ordered to leave behind and found the magazine for an airsoft gun in the student’s backpack, and the airsoft gun nearby.

Glassman said a witness didn’t identify the student until 2 p.m. when the evacuated children were returned

to eight or 12 design groups week.

They also gave the city’s Fire Rescue Services and Police Services permission to use the three-story vacant hotel for training.

The district is moving ahead with plans to demolish the hotel when the city issues permits.

golf course in the next to Millennium’s campus. Then the teacher identified the student as the person she saw with the gun just before school started that morning.

According to the sheriff ’s report, the boy had bought the gun earlier in the week for $5. There were “several other students that knew the gun was at school and were also playing” with it, according to the incident report. Those students have also received “consequences” by the school, according to the report, which didn’t elaborate about what the penalties were.

The boy’s name was blacked out from a sheriff’s report because he is a minor.

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Fire-rescue won’t burn the building down or use water in their hoses, fire marshal and Assistant Chief Matt Welhaf said before the meeting. “We’ll use it for forcible entry, search and rescue and trapped firefighter training,” he said.

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