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...mile commuter line from Melun to Paris until the brakes failed just outside the Gare de Lyon, a major commuter hub. Firemen, doctors and paramedics worked for 20 hours to save the injured and retrieve the dead. "I tried to lift someone up by the shoulders," said a young fireman. "His torso came off in my arms." Said Mayor Jacques Chirac after visiting the scene: "It is incomprehensible...
...breathing devices over their beards. "You can't afford to get rid of good fire fighters," he says. The two Amish make up half the fire company's day shift; Miller, who owns a harness shop across the street from the station, is usually the first fireman to answer a call...
Right about the time this week that New York City Fireman Raul Muniz starts his 24-hour shift at Engine Company 45 on East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx, athletes in Calgary's Olympic Village will be tumbling out of bed for another day of fun, games and potential glory. Muniz is no stranger to that daily ritual. As one-half of Puerto Rico's two-member luge team, the fire fighter spent pleasant evenings last week playing free video games with the boys and girls of winter and precarious days sliding down the refrigerated luge track on his back...
...home in Dover, Ark., to nearby Russellville. Packing two .22-cal. pistols, he entered a law office and fatally shot a young receptionist who had rejected his amorous advances. Then, in a 30-minute shooting spree across town, the retired Air Force master sergeant murdered a 33-year-old fireman and wounded four others. "Don't worry," he told a hostage minutes before surrendering to police. "I've gotten everybody who hurt...
Perhaps the more alarming charge is that Jefferies helped a customer, unnamed in the Securities and Exchange Commission's probe, manipulate the price of a public stock offering. The stock, also unnamed but widely believed to be Fireman's Fund, was languishing last May in the days just before the insurance company's owner, American Express, was planning to offer more of the shares to the public. Jefferies is accused of briefly boosting the market price -- and thus illegally rigging the price of the new shares -- by buying blocks of Fireman's stock right before the offering. The New York...