A battalion chief caught a whiff of smoke at the station a little after 10 a.m. Sunday and found the station kitchen ablaze. He called for help because most of the firefighters assigned there were out on a call.

Fire crews from a station less than 5 miles (8 kilometers) away responded. It took them about 15 minutes to put out the fire in the kitchen and living areas. No injuries were reported.

The fire cause is being investigated. Most of the station’s firefighters and equipment were moved temporarily to another station.

Fire crews were dispatched around 7:50 p.m. Wednesday to the Shadow Ridge complex in La Vista. Authorities say the blaze spread to two adjoining garages but didn’t reach the residents’ buildings.

The man was working on a truck in his garage when the fire started. He suffered burns on his hands in trying to extinguish the flames. His name wasn’t released.

The crash occurred around 5:40 p.m. Thursday, when the southbound motorcycle went out of control, crossed a grass median and an on-ramp and overturned on an embankment.

Police say the motorcyclist was taken to Nebraska Medical Center, where he died.

He’s been identified as 45-year-old Bill Pyle, who lived in Omaha.

Tyler Pitzl, of Waterloo, was 17 when police say he attacked his parents at the home they shared and shot at two Douglas County Sheriff’s deputies who responded to the Sept. 3 call of a disturbance. One deputy was shot in the hand and forearm. Deputies returned fire, hitting Pitzl in the abdomen and rupturing one of his kidneys.

On Thursday, Pitzl admitted to the assault, attempted assault and a weapons count. Defendants in juvenile court admit or deny charges instead of pleading guilty or not guilty.

Pitzl had initially been charged as an adult with five felonies that could have put him in prison essentially for life, but a judge ruled his case should be heard in juvenile court.

Pitzl will now remain under juvenile court authority until he turns 19 in February.

Court records say 38-year-old Eric Scott entered the pleas Wednesday to charges of escape, assault on an officer, theft and use of a weapon. A second weapons count was dropped.

Officials say Scott was being driven to court in Fremont Sept. 20 by a Dodge County sheriff’s deputy in an unmarked government car when he slipped his handcuffs and used his leg-iron chain to choke the deputy. Scott gained control of the car in Saunders County, forcing out the deputy.

Scott was arrested the next day after he was found walking near the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Officials found the Dodge County deputy’s service weapon on Scott when he was arrested.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former doctor convicted of killing four people connected to an Omaha medical school will learn his fate in a few weeks: life in prison or the death penalty.

On Tuesday Judge Gary Randall set the sentencing of Anthony Garcia for Sept. 14 in Douglas County District Court in Omaha. A three-judge panel last month heard arguments about the sentence options.

Garcia, of Terre Haute, Indiana, was convicted of fatally stabbing 11-year-old Thomas Hunter, son of Creighton University School of Medicine faculty member William Hunter, and the family’s housekeeper, 57-year-old Shirlee Sherman, in 2008.

Garcia also was found guilty of two other killings in a separate incident five years later, the 2013 Mother’s Day deaths of another Creighton pathology doctor, Roger Brumback, and his wife, Mary, in their Omaha home.

Prosecutors say Garcia blamed Hunter and Brumback for his 2001 firing from Creighton’s pathology residency program.