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...Approximately 100 fires are burning in the Australian state of New South Wales, making up roughly 1,200 miles of fire lines. The largest individual blaze, near Singleton, is reported to have charred almost 150,000 acres of land. In total, the fires have burned about 1.2 million acres, and have destroyed over 150 homes, though no human deaths have been reported. Some residents have not been so lucky; officials say that thousands of koalas, one of Australia?s most cherished symbols, are likely dead as the result of the fires burning through their forest habitat. Prior to the start...
...conscientious about it, have pulled us through one potential economic crisis after another through the 90s, and they can't be blamed for the trouble we're having these days - it'd be a lot worse if not for them. But to expect spending and demand to light a blaze under the economy this spring is asking an awful...
...20th floor in a crowded stairwell of the burning 1 World Trade Center. A Port Authority contractor had grabbed his digital camera on his rush down from the 71st floor and released the shutter just as Mike, a fireman with Engine 28, was climbing to the scene of the blaze...
...first and second alarms sounded in unison at 8:47 at firehouses across lower Manhattan. The third was transmitted at 8:48 as a 10-60, code for a major emergency. No fourth alarm was necessary; at 8:56 the blaze was upgraded to a five-alarm fire. Because the night tour was just then being relieved, two shifts of men were milling around most firehouses, bantering about the morning's headlines (AIR WE GO AGAIN, blared the New York Post about Michael Jordan's comeback) and the previous evening's calls. That meant that double the men were...
...extract people from burning buildings or handle hazardous materials, the sole job of an engine company like Mike's is to lay the hose to douse the flames. The members of Engine 28, each hauling more than 100 lbs. of gear, were dispatched directly to the scene of the blaze. Mike was in the control position that day, which means he was charged with carrying a spare canister of oxygen and a leather pouch of tools to connect the hose to the internal water pipes that run up the spines of skyscrapers...