Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...link to Tylenol was first noted by two off-duty firemen in the area who were monitoring their police radios at home. Philip Cappitelli and Richard Keyworth compared notes over the telephone and were struck by the fact that the painkiller had been mentioned in two of the reports. "This is a wild stab, but maybe it's Tylenol," Keyworth speculated. They mentioned their hunch to their superiors...
...summer's firestorm, which has finally tapered off in recent weeks, provided Hub firefighters with some memorable nights on the job. On Friday night, August 13, only four buildings were torched--a total of $100,000 in damage, but a total of 32 alarms went off around town, and firemen used every available piece of equipment, including the city's sole fire boat. Charlestown's Engine 50 spent one Saturday night rushing to multiple-alarmers, first two miles to South Boston, then four miles from there to Jamaica Plain, then finally back to Charles town. As for the arson investigators...
...Friday or Saturday nights, about 200 "suspicious" fires have occurred in Boston. McCarthy has the luck to heard the arson squad in a city where a third of all fires are arson-related, and where the fire department is by far the most overworked in the country. One firemen's union official found that to overworked in the country. One firemen's union official found that to bring the force up to the national average of total runs and multiple alarms per engine, the city would have to reopen the 21 stations closed by budget cuts--and then create...
...down a steep hillside and caught fire. A resident extinguished the fire and pulled Princess Stéphanie, her 17-year-old youngest child, from the driver's-side door (leading to speculation, eventually squelched, that the underage and unlicensed Stéphanie had been driving). Firemen extricated Princess Grace. The first confusing bulletins from the palace spoke only of a broken leg, but she never regained consciousness, and a brain scan showed irreparable damage from the stroke and her injuries. She died the next day, at 52, after Rainier and their older children, Princess Caroline, 25, and Prince...
...epidemic may. Almost two buildings are being torched a night, on average, and one in five Boston fires is set deliberately, twice the 1979 rate. Since June 11, when 101 fires were reported in twelve hours, arsonists have caused $5 million in damage. Jim Coakley is one of 16 firemen on a special roving arson squad that includes police and federal agents. "It could be anything," he says. "Profit, vandalism, imitation... Some of it is because kids decide to set a fire and get some excitement...