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Among the firefighters who charged into a burning furniture store in Charleston, S.C., on June 18 were veterans with decades of knowledge. They sized up the visible evidence and concluded they could rescue trapped employees and beat down the blaze...
...commonplace a century ago, when storms of flame sometimes consumed whole neighborhoods in a single night. Building codes, safe electricity and modern firefighting have saved countless lives. Today fire engines roll alongside ambulances to everyday medical emergencies, just to keep the crews sharp for the rare major blaze...
...there will come a day, as yet far off, when our skills and science overmaster chaos and the last surprise flashover consumes its last unlucky victim. Until then, we will have need for those willing to place themselves in the gap between knowledge and peril: the firefighter at the blaze, the police officer in pursuit, the soldier approaching an ambush, the fisherman nearing a gale. Though their perception may prove imperfect, their courage is never obsolete...
...Boston University (BU) undergraduates died when a fire, ignited by a candle, swept through an off-campus apartment building early Saturday morning. A third student remains in critical condition.After battling the blaze, firefighters found two people in apartment 621, later identified to be BU undergraduates Rhiannon L. McCuish of Mashpee, Mass., and Stephen Adelipour of Great Neck, N.Y., dead at the scene. Both were 21.Adelipour resided in the apartment, and McCuish was visiting. Steven B. Boursiquot, 22, of Dix Hills, N.Y., was found in the apartment alive and transported to Mass. General Hospital, where he remains in critical condition, according...
Flames between some lovers were prematurely quenched yesterday as firefighters extinguished an underground blaze that forced the evacuation of several restaurants and businesses on Brattle Street...