Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Louvre were taken upstairs to safety, three companies of firemen were kept busy pumping water out of the basement of ancient Notre-Dame, and police closed off the famed Pont des Invalides for fear its waterlogged arches might collapse. In the suburbs, thousands were evacuated from their homes. In Paris' 227 Roman Catholic churches, special prayers were said for favorable weather...
Sure that "hundreds of terrorists were in Washington City," he ordered all firemen on the alert against possible mass arson. Without bothering about legal authority, he ordered the arrest of "every human being" employed at Ford's Theatre...
Three fire engines and a disaster car answered the call of the Adams' night superintendent at 10:55, and a crowd of about 250 watched firemen push the burning sofa out a window...
Still Rusty. In Sacramento, Lawrence B. Garcia sued the Citrus Heights Fire Department for $12,530 damages, charged that firemen he had permitted on his property to practice had let their fire get out of control and burn down his home...
Flame at Headquarters. In Cairo, a mob surged through narrow, shabby back streets to the Ikhwan (Brotherhood) headquarters and set it afire. By the time the firemen could get through the mob, the Ikhwan headquarters-once the center of Egypt's secret government which had made, broken, and even killed Premiers-was a gutted ruin. Four days later, police arrested the Brotherhood's Supreme Guide Ahmed Hassan el Hodeiby...