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...Sped by the winds, the sparks leaped from roof to roof, from street to street. For three hours, the fire raged out of control as residents in a four-block area of apartment complexes scrambled out of its path and fire-fighting units from neighboring towns helped battle the blaze. "I heard people screaming," recalled Linda Hebert, 21. "Neighbors were waking everybody up, and the police were telling us to leave." More than 2,000 people were evacuated, and some 1,500 were left homeless by the most devastating fire in the history of Orange County. Estimated damages: $50 million...
...Alice Ford, Soprano Katia Ricciarelli sang with a lustrous tone that matched her resplendent blond beauty and sparkling stage presence. Hers is a voice that can both beguile with gentle lyricism and blaze with the incandescence of a high-spirited diva. Other noteworthy performances came from American Mezzo Brenda Boozer, who made a lively Meg Page, and Soprano Barbara Hendricks and Tenor Dalmacio Gonzalez, who sang touchingly as the young lovers. British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view...
...hurt in the blaze. However, the alarm failed to sound, even though students and union officials attempted to ring the alarm. This malfunction prompted concern among fire and safety officials that many occupants received little or no warning of the danger...
...Indians who followed their buffalo across the land for centuries before Hal Noelke's great-great-grandfather, R.F. Tankersley, became the first white man to settle in the area, in 1864. They are attacking the mesquite with fire: bulldozing fire guards and then setting a careful blaze when the wind is right to take down an entire pasture of mesquite at one time...
Last week, a 60-year-old Salem fireman died of a heart attack while fighting a major blaze...