Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fire broke out about 5:50 p.m. on the fourth story of the unfinished building and quickly spread to the other four floors. The injured worker--Eli Lorbin, 51--was trapped by the flames and critically burned before firemen carried him to safety. He is on the danger list at Masachusetts General Hospital, where his condition was described yesterday as poor...
...reported injured in the conflagration, which occured at 3:17 p.m. It took two-dozen firemen from six firetrucks to extinguish the blaze...
...after the alarm was sounded at 5:10, (the fire had been put out a half hour earlier with a bucket of water) the nine trucks (plus a couple of police cars) had the building surrounded. As a big hydraulic ladder crunched against the top of the building, two firemen rushed inside...
...rails have benefited from cutting back work forces, freight rates and passenger service. Labor contracts signed last year will gradually eliminate some 30,000 firemen's jobs, although at a cost of $80 million in wage increases and severance pay this year. With permission from the Government, which is gradually loosening its rigid regulation of the rails, the companies are also granting volume discounts to attract big shippers and are canceling lightly traveled passenger runs...
...expected to be "the biggest day of the Christmas shopping season," roared up the stairwell to gut the fourth and fifth floors. In some sections of the store untouched by flames, plastic hangers melted in the intense heat, dropping expensive clothing into dirty, swirling water. More than 150 firemen fought for five hours to control the fire, the costliest in Dallas history...