(AP) — An initial synopsis on an Arizona wildfire that began with a lightning strike and caused little immediate concern shows how the blaze quickly turned into an inferno due to extreme weather and wind.

The fire began June 28 outside the small town of Yarnell about 60 miles northwest of Phoenix. It destroyed more than 100 homes before it was fully contained on July 10. Nineteen members of an elite Hotshot firefighting crew died when they were overtaken by flames.

A national team of investigators is working to understand more about the firefighters’ deaths and is expected to finish an initial report in about two months.

The synopsis, released Monday, spells out how the blaze grew from a mere acre to a fast-moving inferno within 36 hours, trapping the firefighters and cutting them off from their safety zone.

(AP) — A 40-year-old man has been arrested, accused of shooting to death his father in the eastern Nebraska town of Gretna.

Steven Braesch is in Sarpy County Jail, awaiting prosecution on charges that include second-degree murder in the slaying of 69-year-old William Braesch.

Sarpy County Attorney Lee Polikov said Monday that a family argument led to the shooting around 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Online court records don’t list the name of Steven Braesch’s attorney.

(AP) — Police are investigating the theft of copper worth thousands of dollars from a power station run by the Omaha Public Power District.

Officers responded to the power station Friday afternoon following a report of a burglary.

A report says a hole was cut into the northeast corner of the fence and a lock was cut on the west gate.

The copper was valued at $3,000. The additional damage was estimated at $350.

(AP) — Omaha police are looking for the driver of a stolen vehicle who rammed into a police cruiser to avoid arrest.

Omaha Police Officer Michael Pecha says the incident happened shortly before 7 a.m. Monday.

Pecha says patrol officers recognized a vehicle at a gas station near I-80 in eastern Omaha as a possible stolen vehicle.

Once officers confirmed the vehicle was stolen, they pulled into the parking lot. Then the stolen vehicle rammed the police cruiser and backed into a tree.

When officers exited their vehicle, the stolen vehicle hit the cruiser again and fled.

The vehicle was located later in Council Bluffs, and a passenger was arrested, but officers are still looking for the driver.

(AP) — The number of confirmed cases of a rare food-borne illness in Nebraska has climbed to 48 as state and federal public health agencies try to figure out where it’s coming from.

An outbreak of cyclosporiasis (sy-kloh-spor-EYE’-uh-sis) is confined mostly to Douglas County in eastern Nebraska and is likely linked to Iowa where 71 people were confirmed sick as of Monday.

Nebraska Epidemioloist Dr. Thomas Safranek says fresh vegetables are likely the culprit but the investigation continues.

Consumers should wash fruits and vegetables to reduce the risk of getting the illness, which causes diarrhea lasting an average of 57 days. It’s caused by a parasite carried primarily in human feces that contaminates food.

The illness is rare in Nebraska. No cases were reported in the last four years.

(AP) — An Indiana doctor has been arrested in the unsolved deaths of four people linked to the Nebraska medical school he attended before being fired in 2001.

Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer says 40-year-old Dr. Anthony Garcia was arrested Monday in Illinois.

Schmaderer says Garcia has been linked to the May slayings of Creighton University professor Roger Brumback and his wife, Mary, as well as the 2008 stabbings of 11-year-old Thomas Hunter and his family housekeeper, Shirlee Sherman.

Roger Brumback and Thomas Hunter’s father worked in Creighton’s pathology department. They fired Garcia for erratic behavior in 2001, when he was a pathology resident.

Schmaderer declined to discuss evidence against Garcia, who lives in Terre Haute, Ind. Garcia doesn’t have a listed phone number, and information about his attorney wasn’t immediately available.