Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Merkin, the police believed the fire was an arson because everyone in the suite was leaving by the time police and firemen arrived. The students either left for the football game at the University of Pennsylvania or went to classes, Merkin said...
...Three firemen climbed into her room on a hook-and-ladder, and two others sledge-hammered the door from the hallway...
Apparently, the lock had jammed and the door-jam had locked, and it took the Firemen 100 minutes to finally set her free by prying off the door knob...
...Firemen arrived after Johnson and Miller had extinguished the flames and Deputy Fire Chief William F. Murray said because Romero's flue was closed the heat couldn't escape through the chimney so it "banked out into the room...
...minster staff worked together in the burning building to salvage tapestries, candlesticks, altar crosses and whole pews. Eventually the smoke and heat forced them to withdraw, and the south transept's entire roof "collapsed like a pack of dominoes," in the words of one clergyman. After three hours, firemen managed to bring the blaze under control. They also succeeded in preventing the fire from spreading through the rest of the church. As daylight crept into the now roofless transept, the full scope of the tragedy became apparent: littered with six-foot-high piles of charred debris and fallen beams...