Word: firemanning
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...Catholic school for handicapped children were attacked by mobs hurling stones, bricks and bottles. A Catholic church and parish house were broken into and ransacked, their religious statues smashed. Three Catholic families in Protestant areas were fire-bombed from their homes. The day left five dead, including a fireman who was shot in the chest as he arrived to fight a blaze in Sandy Row, a Protestant section of South Belfast. Tom Herron, vice chairman of the Ulster Defense Association (U.D.A.), largest of the militant Protestant organizations, brazenly declared that the day's success had been spoiled only...
Soon shots were ringing out from several other floors of the motel, and smoke began pouring from half a dozen balconies. One newly married couple were killed in a corridor while clutching each other in a death embrace. A fireman ascending a ladder to the tenth floor was shot. The assistant manager of the motel, investigating reports of fire, was killed as he moved down a hallway. So was Louis Sirgo, 48, the city's deputy police superintendent, as he led a search through the motel...
...another occasion, G.P.C.'s psychologist Alan Strand and polygraphist Robert Cormack delved into the character and past of a suburban fireman who had been on the force for several years. He now wanted to transfer to the fire department in another town. They learned that he was an arsonist who had already set several fires...
...should go to the whole town") sped through the night to deliver a truckload of clothing. A chicken farmer donated his 16,000 birds to help feed the city. From up to 250 miles away, farmers with wells carried tanks of water to the town. Charles Russell, a volunteer fireman from Mud Butte, S. Dak., repeatedly drove a water-filled fire truck from Sturgis into Rapid City. "I've seen every kind of container ever made," he said of the various means that residents used to take the water home, "even little kids' potties...
...star status could command a wide range of roles, he plans to keep right on doing character parts. He will play an aging Midwestern dirt racer in Good Luck, Roy Neal, which will start shooting in July. Next he has his eye on a script about a fireman. In another ten years, he maintains, he may quit acting altogether. "I want to relax, paint, read and maybe even write," he says. "I don't see myself as a distinguished old actor." Perhaps not, but if that Marine captain were to turn up again in 20 years, chances are that...