CNN news 2010-08-07
A number of pro-government's news websites, including the Fars News Agency which is closely tied to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Rosemary, they all reported initially that a home-made hand grenade had been thrown at the convoy as the Iranian president was travelling through at the western town in Hamadan, on one of his frequent provincial visits around the country and that somebody had been detained shortly after that blast. Then we got within a matter of hours, statements coming from the Iranian govern… president's team rather, from his spokesman actually saying that there was no hand grenade whatsoever; this was in fact a toy firecracker, the kind that children might play with, that nobody had been injured, and that western media was blowing this all out of proportion.
Just after 6:00 we had a call into our dispatch center that we had a single engineer craft that had crashed here northwestern Deer Valley airport into the City Wide Pest Control business. The plane quickly consumed the fire. We dispatched our crews. When we got here, we found a small plane like I said that was fully involved of fire. Our crews quickly deployed hand lines. We were able to get the fire under the control. Fortunately, it did not spread to the building. We don't have any kind of hazardous material issues out here, with the plane or with the business. Unfortunately, we have one person -- the pilot appears has lost his life in this crash. We're trying to determine if we have anybody else that was in the plane.
I think it's important to point out that at least 50% of the oil that was released is now completely gone from the system. And most of remainder is degrading rapidly, or is being removed from the beaches. The conclusions, key conclusions of the report is that the vast majority of the oil has either evaporated or been burned, skimmed and recovered from the wellhead, or dispersed, and much of the dispersed oil is in the process of relatively rapid degradation. A significant amount of this is a direct result of the very robust Federal response efforts.