Fires Destroy Two Homes;
More Daytime Volunteers Needed
Fires Friday and Monday de
stroyed iwo homes in southwestern
Brunswiek County as local fire offi
cials expressed an urgent need for
more daytime volunteers.
It took firefighters more than an
hour to arrive at the Ardcll Gore
home on Pea Landing Road Friday,
where a fire was reported at approx
imately 11:30 a.m.
Neighbors watching firefighters
at work questioned the delayed re
sponse.
"The house could have been
saved if the fire department had not
been so slow getting here," said one
bystander. Another said he thought
there should be firefighters at the
station at all times to speed re
sponse time.
Volunteers from Calabash, Gris
scttown-Longwood, Sunset Beach
and Shallottc VFDs responded with
tankers and Supply VFD brought air
bottles, said Brunswick County
Fire Marshal Cecil Logan. Horry
County, S.C., heard radio traffic in
diCwtinni 3 shorls^c of manpower
and volunteered a truck and crew.
"We accepted," said Logan. "When
the dispatcher said she needed help
we rolled everything we could get."
Grisseltown-Calabash firefighter
Charles Beebe said other depart
ments arc experiencing the same
"We have to activate three or four
departments to get enough people
to fight a daytime fire."
?Cecil Logan
County Fire Marshal
kind of manpower problems iheir A Monday afternoon fire destroy
dcpartmcni has during daytime ed the home of Curtis Daniels Jr. on
hours. Russtown Road near Longwood.
"There was nobody around?just Waccamaw, Calabash and Sunset
the chief and I," he said, until a Beach firefighters responded to the
third firefighter arrived a short time '-^0 P m- blaze that is believed to
later. Most any other day, Bccbc have started from a cigarette.
said he would have been working The home was fully involved
on the new home he is building at wh^n wc arrived on the scene, said
Boiling Spring Lakes. "Usually Waccamaw Fire Chief Glcnda War
there would be nobodv around," he rcn- There was nothing salvage
said. able.
, , , . Calabash and Waccamaw sent
Logan agreed. We have to act.- ^ lQ (hc ? whi)c Sunsc,
vale three or four departments to get Bcach Rrc Dcpartmcnt also rc.
enough people to fight a dayt.mc spom,cd Bccau^ of ^ ]ack of
ire, e sam. daytime volunteers, Grisscttown/
The fine at the Gore home appar- Longwccd Fire Department was un
cntly started at a wood heater at the able to respond.
back of the double-wide mobile "Each department is really in
home, said both Logan and Gore's need of volunteers," Ms. Warren
son, Casey Gore. No one was in the said. "Wc just did not have the man
house at the time. power to fight this fire. We might
The family plans to rebuild on have been able to save it if wc had
the same site. enough daytime volunteers."
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SWf PHOTO BY SUSAN USHE?
DAYTIME MANPOWER SHORTAGES hindered volunteer fire departments' efforts to save the
Ardell Core house (above) on Pea iMnding Road near Thomasboro Eriday and the Curtis Daniel Jr.
residence on Russtown Road near IxyngMood Monday.
Drug Trafficker Gets 35-Year
Sentence Plus $250,000 Fine
BY TERRY TOPE
A Southport man was scntcnced
to 35 years in prison and fined
$250,(XX) after a jury found him
guilty of drug trafficking chargcs
last week in Brunswick County
Superior Court.
Romel Anemont of Garden Ter
race Apartments was originally sen
tenced to 70 years in prison and
fined S500.000 on two charges, one
count of trafficking by possession
of more than 4(X) grams of cocaine
and one count of uafficking by
transporting cocaine.
Last Friday, Judge Giles R. Clark
amended the sentence to 35 years in
prison after consolidating the two
charges.
Anemont was one of three men
wanted in connection with an un
dercover drug operation in March of
this year, said Brunswick County
Sheriff's Detcctive David Crocker.
Detectives assisted two Florida bail
bondsmen in locating Anemont af
ter they traced his whereabouts to
Southport. Anemont had allegedly
fled Florida while out on bail there,
Crocker said.
On March 25, three men were lo
cated in Southport in Ancmont's
1978 Saab. When officers ap
proached, Anemont was allegedly
spotted "shoving about a pound of
cocaine under the scat," Crocker
said.
One suspect in the car fled the
scene. Sergeant Hypolitc of South
port was later arrested at the New
York and Canadian border by immi
gration officials and brought back to
Brunswick County. He is still being
held in the Brunswick County Jail
without bond while awaiting trial.
Hypolitc's trial is set for Dcc. 10
on two counts of trafficking more
than 400 grams of cocaine into
Brunswick County and one count of
conspiracy to traffic cocaine.
A third man arrested at the scene,
Jean Sylvan, also of Southport, was
released on bail. Since then Sylvan
has failed to appear in court and an
order for his arrest has been issued,
Crocker said. He is wanted in the
state of Florida on other charges.
A Brunswick County jury delib
erated three hours last Thursday be
fore reaching a verdict. Two charges
against Anemont, trafficking by
conspiracy and maintaining a dwel
ling or motor vehicle for selling co
caine, were dismissed following
motions filed by Ancmont's attor
ney, Michael Ramos.
Judge Clark also heard the fol
lowing eases in Superior Court last
week:
? Konuie j. Duncan, 38, of Route 6,
Shallotte, was sentenced to three
years ?rs jui! arid ordered 10 pay
S43.500 in restitution to Paula's A
Touch of Elegance of Seaside. Ms.
Duncan faced a possible 10 years in
prison on charges that she embez
zled more than S52.000 from the
company while employed as a
bookkeeper there between October
1987 and November 1989.
She was made eligible for work
release. Her attorney. Roy Trcst of
Shallottc, said the money was used
by the defendant to pay personal
bins. Checks were made out to her
self and to companies to which she
owed money, Trest said Part of the
money has been repaid, he added,
since Ms. Duncan has gotten anoth
er job.
? Godfrey Hankins of Route 2, Sup
ply, was sentenced to 90 days in jail
after a jury found him guilty of pos
sessing cocaine and maintaining a
motor vehicle to keep and sell co
caine. Hankins was placed on four
years of supervised probation and
fined S500. He was arrested on
Mulberry Street in Shaiiotte with
"rock" cocaine arid SI,701 in cash,
Dct. Crocker said. His 1982 Che
vette was confiscated by the Bruns
wick County Sheriff's Department.
? Nicholas L. Webb of Franklin was
sentenced to 14 years in prison after
pleading guilty to robbery with a
dangerous weapon. Armed robbery
carries a mandatory minimum of 14
years in prison, with a maximum of dangerous weapon. He faced a pos
40 years. siblc 40 years in prison. Judge Clark
? Christopher S. Freeman, 20, of ordered thai he receive credit for
Lcland Mobile Home Park was sen- lime served in jail while awaiting
tcnccd to 14 years in prison after trial but that he not benefit as a
pleading guilty to robbery with a committed youthful offender.
Temperatures Still 'Seesawing'
Temperatures and precipitation ccive about a half-inch of precipita
are expected to be near normal over tion, similar to the .52 inch recorded
the next few days in the Shallotlc during the period of Nov. 27
area, but Shallotte Point weather through Dcc 3.
watcher Jackson Canady said he ex- The maximum high for the period
pecLs a "seesaw pattern" to continue, was 77 decrees, which occurred the
Temperatures arc cxpcctcd to afternoon of Nov. 29. The minimum
range from an average of around 40 low of 29 degrees occurrcd the fol
degrecs at night to around 60 dc- lowing morning, Nov. 30, for a drop
grees in the daytime, he said, but of 48 degrees.
thai average could continue to re- A daily average high of 71 de
fleet swings in temperature. "There grees combined with an average
could be some days where it is 50 nightly low of 49 degrees for a daily
degrees one day then 65 or 70 de- average temperature of 60 degrees,
grees several days later," he said. which Canady said was about 9 de
Canady expects the area to re- grees above average.
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