Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whlie about 200 students watched, Cambridge firemen sent a ladder to the roof of C-entry, turned a spotlight on the building and ran a hose through the front doorway before discovering what had happened...
Where There's Smoke. In McKeesport, Pa., fellow firemen revived William McWharton after he was knocked out by carbon monoxide fumes while riding in the fire company's rescue...
Eight hours later, 35 fire companies and 475 firemen got the blasts and fires under control. For five blocks around, suburban Brighton was a shambles. Forty-four houses were demolished or badly damaged, 24 people injured, and three, including Mary Anne Maas and her young brother, were killed...
Glare In the Hills. At 3:50 one morning last week, a paper-mill technician on his way to work spotted a glare in the hills and drove up a twisting road to the Adamic place. It was burning. By the time volunteer firemen arrived from Riegelsville, two miles away, the author's garage and studio had burned to its foundations. The charred wreck of a new Nash sedan sat amid the embers. The back of the old farmhouse, 100 feet away, was flaming too. The firemen drove on, ran hose to a nearby pond and put the fire...
Half an hour later, the first rescuers and firemen toiled up the rutted road to the mesa's top. A Coast Guard plane had flown over and told them what to expect. It looked, said one of them, "as if you had thrown a ripe melon against a wall." The plane had splattered its smoking pieces over five acres. All 44 passengers and six crewmen were dead...