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More than 1,000 police and firemen battled the blaze for three days before bringing it under control. The toll: at least 145 dead, including 43 firemen, and 500 injured. Damage may run as high as $4 million. In Caracas, which depends on the plant for 50% of its electricity, Christmas lights were dimmed and elevator use was curtailed. President Luis Herrera Campins maintained a roundthe-clock vigil, and on the country's beaches where holiday crowds traditionally revel, somber Venezuelans respected a three-day mourning period by singing public funeral Masses...
...blaze prompted criticism of Mississippi's Republican Congressman Trent Lott, who represents the Biloxi area. He stepped in last year to halt Justice Department inspection of the state's often overcrowded local jails because he felt it was the state's responsibility...
...minutes after the first alarm--the fire had crossed the mountains, jumped two highways and a firebreak, and burned the 10 miles to the sea. Over the next 24 hours, 700 firefighters--including 136 engine companies, 12 helicopter and aircraft squads and 28 camp crews--battled the blaze. When it was over by late afternoon only one human life was lost but the toil was still staggering. It included...
...taking the bus back from an afternoon class at UCLA. Accustomed to hearing news of such fires. I was intermittently daydreaming and listening to the news reports on the Mandeville Canyon fire, which had been raging since noon of the previous day. Suddenly, an account of another blaze came on. The words "Kanan Dume"--a road near us--cut through my reverie. Startled, I waited for elaboration and when none came glanced instinctively up the coast for the telltale black smudge on the horizon, Dark clouds billowed from Mandeville Canyon five miles away, but beyond that, the sky was only...
...that might, and on into the next day, helicopters and planes flew overhead, dropping water and chemical retardants on the blaze. Although some 700 men were spread out along the length of the fire, its sheet magnitude made even this massive effort miniscule. Wherever resistance was weak and the fire could slip through, tales of tragedy emerged one of the saddest was that of the exotic animal farm in Newbury Park. When the owners of the farm realized the fire was closing in and they could not get the animals out, they opened all the cages...