Thursday Boston Globe, Metro Page 2:
Tenant in fatal Worcester fire arrested
A tenant of a Worcester three-decker, where a firefighter died last week after rushing into the burning building to look for the man, was arrested on Tuesday on unrelated warrants and interviewed about the blaze, authorities said.
Ronald Robbins, 21, who had been living at 49 Arlington St., was arraigned yesterday in Worcester Central District Court on charges that he violated his probation, which stemmed from convictions for assault and battery and violating a restraining order, prosecutors said. A not guilty plea was entered on his behalf.
Thursday Boston Herald front page:
He was under strict orders not to leave the house after school. But 11-year-old Jared Flanders neatly knotted his tie, climbed on his bike and went to pay his last respects to fallen Worcester firefighter Jon Davies at a funeral home down the street yesterday.
Jared didn’t know the hero jake who died after rushing into a blazing triple-decker last week. Yet, the boy’s kind-hearted salute lifted the spirits of firefighters attending Davies’ wake.
Read the Herald story. This kid is great. And thanks to the local feisty tabloid, every news outlet in town now knows it.
Just a matter of time before Jared goes national.
See you then.
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