Word: firemanning
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...which had heavy use from local drug dealers, the firemen bought radios to give away each month to children who earned especially good grades. They persuaded police officers and junk dealers to begin dropping off broken bike frames. A local bicycle repairman donated old tires and rims, and a fireman named Kirkland Flowers, whom the children eventually tagged with the nickname "the mayor of Robert Taylor," started building bikes during his spare hours...
...sort of reverse adoption, each kid claims a fireman as his or her own. Some gravitate to Albert Shaw, who drives the truck and teaches chess at the kitchen table. Others crowd around Steve ("the Preacher") Ellerson, who gives haircuts and lectures on good grades. Andre Raiford, built like an oaken door, drills the children on multiplication tables. Each fireman imparts lessons in some area and helps enforce a strict behavior code. Swearing and drug dealing are prohibited. Faces must be clean, hair combed, hands washed. "All these kids know is what they see around the projects," says Lewis...
...These children can frighten you," says Rocky Morris, a fireman at Engine 16. He is interrupted by the crash of a vase thrown through a living-room window 16 stories above his head. As shards of glass rain onto the parking lot, Morris shoots a sardonic look toward a teenager whose face pokes through the shattered window. "We'll find who did that, and we'll work with that person," he says. "We can address them because most of us were raised in these projects." He pauses, then offers a comment that his colleagues would surely echo. "You know...
...joint interview. "People were speaking loudly. There was a kind of panic, like one usually finds at accident scenes." Dressed in a white T shirt and white jeans that were soon spattered with the princess' blood, Mailliez put an oxygen mask over her face while a former volunteer fireman supported Rees-Jones' bloody head in his hands. Mailliez said the paparazzi had not hindered him in his work. He left once the first emergency firefighters' unit arrived at 12:32 a.m., about seven minutes after the accident...
...Fireman Bill Campbell shut the door on the New Yorkers, killing a one-out, bases loaded rally in the eighth to pick up the save. The victory left Boston 2 1/2 games behind the Yanks with 10 games remaining...