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UPDATE: At least 6 fatalities in London high-rise fire

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LONDON -- Fire swept through a high-rise apartment building in West London early Wednesday, killing at least six people and sending dozens to hospitals.

More than 200 firefighters battled the flames, which engulfed the 24-story building. “In my 29 years of being a firefighter, I have never, ever seen anything of this scale,” Dany Cotton, commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, told media outlets on scene, adding the cause of the fire was not immediately known.

Forty fire trucks were involved in fighting the blaze, and more than 20 ambulances were sent to the scene. The London Ambulance Service said it had taken at least 64 patients to six hospitals, according to the New York Times, which added 20 were in critical condition.

-- Henry Frederick, Headline Surfer, reporting from Orlando, Fla., and from wire reports

Sheriff Mike Chitwood's Volusia vulgarity meter shoots up with colorful acronym wording for letters that spell out 'Scumbag'

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Kent Jacker, a Central Floridian who routines posts social media reactions to what media is reporting, takes issue with a WKMG Channel 6 Orlando story on Chitwood's newest use for one of his most vulgar phrases - scumbag.

"Fair enough, out goes (due) process and in comes personal beliefs," Jacker wrote in WKMG's comment section to Chitwood's glee at what he says as creative license to his advantage.

Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma recognizes deputy who brought her horse to a cancer-stricken elderly woman's bedside for loving affection before she died

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SANFORD, Fla. -- There were few dry eyes in the room when Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma presented Deputy Molly Smith with the Community Service Award during the law enforcement agency's annual awards ceremony over the weekend.