A man has died after the dumpster where he and another man might have been sleeping was emptied into a garbage truck, police say.
The funeral service will be held on Long Island Saturday for Master Sergeant Christopher Raguso, one of the four local airmen killed in a deadly helicopter crash in Iraq.
The men were all assigned to the 106th Rescue Wing, based in Westhampton on Long Island. They died when their helicopter went down during a search and rescue mission in the Anbar province of western Iraq.
Kings Park resident Roseanne Kleppsattel, a volunteer firefighter, helped save a life on the way home from the funeral for her husband, who was also a firefighter.
Parts of the heart-pounding rescue were caught on camera, and the video captures the severity of the conditions present on a ledge 125 feet above the ground in 35 mile per hour winds last Friday.
The 6-year-old Golden Doodle pulled his leash away from his owner to chase a rabbit, then fell into a 16-foot abandoned cesspool behind the ice skating rink.