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−	Authorities reopened Highway 140 heading into Yosemite National Park on Sunday as crews made significant improvements in containing the wildfire that claimed the life of a San Jose air tanker pilot last week.	+	State Police have charged a Smyrna man in connection with an armed home invasion in Bridgewater on Sunday.
−	The Dog Rock Fire has grown to 311 acres but was 95 percent contained as of the afternoon,  officials said.	+
−	A mandatory evacuation order for Foresta, a community along the northern border of the blaze, was lifted, and Highway 140 reopened.	+	Timothy Slaton, 48, was arrested and charged with burglary and criminal threatening with a firearm. Slaton was taken into custody at his home Sunday and taken to the Aroostook County Jail in Houlton.
−	The fire was first reported about 2:45 p.m. Tuesday. Two hours later, a plane contracted by the of Forestry and Fire Protection to drop fire retardant crashed into a canyon near where the wildfire was burning, killing 62-year-old Geoffrey 鈥淐raig鈥?Hunt.	+
−	Investigators believe the fire was caused by metal fragments such as a dragging trailer chain or brake parts that heated up along Highway 140 and blazed into the hills near the park鈥檚 entrance near El Portal.	+	Troopers earlier Sunday had responded to the Corner Road in Bridgewater for a report of an armed home invasion. The homeowner reported that a man had forced his way into the residence brandishing a firearm.
−	The fire burned along steep, heavily vegetated terrain, complicating firefighting efforts. Much of the blaze was fought by aircraft flying overhead, dumping water and fire retardant where firefighters could not reach.	+
−	After the crash that killed Hunt, Cal Fire grounded its firefighting S2 Tracker fleet statewide as a safety precaution, and aircraft from the National Park Service began flying missions over the Dog Rock Fire.	+	There was a brief altercation inside the home and the suspect fled in a vehicle, along with a second man. The suspects in this case were identified later in the day as Slaton and 52-year-old Alan Gillotti of Ludlow.
−	Hunt had flown for DynCorp International, a Cal Fire contractor, for 13 years and was based in Hollister, as was the plane, officials said. He lived in east San Jose and had a wife and two daughters.	+
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Revision as of 07:23, 31 October 2014

@@@ State Police have charged a Smyrna man in connection with an armed home invasion in Bridgewater on Sunday.

Timothy Slaton, 48, was arrested and charged with burglary and criminal threatening with a firearm. Slaton was taken into custody at his home Sunday and taken to the Aroostook County Jail in Houlton.

Troopers earlier Sunday had responded to the Corner Road in Bridgewater for a report of an armed home invasion. The homeowner reported that a man had forced his way into the residence brandishing a firearm.

There was a brief altercation inside the home and the suspect fled in a vehicle, along with a second man. The suspects in this case were identified later in the day as Slaton and 52-year-old Alan Gillotti of Ludlow.

Following Slaton s arrest, Troopers went to Gillotti s house on the Town Line Road in Ludlow to talk to him. Gillotti had an armed confrontation with the troopers and he was shot and killed by Sgt. Joshua Haines.

As is standard with all police involved shootings, the Maine Attorney General s Office is investigating the incident and Sgt. Haines remains on administrative leave with pay.

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