Word: alarmingly
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While that was bad enough, the heist turned tragic when Boston police , officer William Schroeder, 42, responded to a silent alarm and William Gilday Jr., one of the ex-cons, who was parked as a lookout across the street, unloaded his submachine gun into Schroeder's back. In the eyes of the law, Power might as well have committed the crime. Like many other states, Massachusetts has a rule that says if someone is killed in the course of a serious crime, all participants can be charged with murder. The three men were captured, but Saxe and Power got away...
...FOUR-ALARM FIRE...
...eventually served as co-chairman of the benefits working group, arrived in Washington late one night only to be told he was presenting an overview at the first meeting the next morning. "Presenting?" asked Valdez. "Presenting what?" Recalls Harvard internist Arnold Epstein: "The whole thing was like a four- alarm fire...
...Every alarm received at the control center is treated as a real fire, Carbone said. He acknowledged, though, that "real, working, damaging fires" are rare...
...fire alarm at the control center can mean burning toast, an overheated washer or dryer or a closed flue in a student fireplace...