But rescuers can't go into the hole to check -- it's too dangerous, Fire Chief Ron Rogers told reporters Friday.

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We had to check over the hole to make sure they didn't put something else in it.

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By the time we got the first check, I was five thousand bucks in the hole, he says.

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Rather, the check is automatically mailed to the senior by Medicare once the prescription drug expenditures for doughnut hole recipients of Medicare reach the limit to qualify for the refund.

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