Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within minutes an enormous rescue crew had assembled: 250 policemen, 250 firemen and hundreds of paramedics. With blowtorches, chain saws and jackhammers they struggled to peel away the twisted beams and cement boulders. They worked 13 feverish hours to free the injured and retrieve the dead. Said Doug Klote, an ambulance company official: "Death and mutilation are nothing new to me. But this is the worst...
Paula Bright, comptroller of Harvard Bookstore, said yesterday she notified Cambridge police and firemen and warned the branch offices after she had received the threat. The caller did not identify himself and did not mention a reason for the threat...
...time police arrived at the stores, both located on Mass Ave. salesmen had already evacuated all customers. Within minutes. Cambridge fire fighters were searching the stores for explosives, but they were unable to find any. After a search lasting nearly an hour, the firemen determined that the threat was false and the stores were re-opened...
...support him still, but increasingly they wonder why. This year, as the city has despaired through perhaps the worst financial crisis in its history-still unresolved-White's first concern has been the preservation of his own power. The onetime urban crusader laid off hundreds of policemen and firemen and closed police and fire stations while initially keeping all of his public relations staff. He vetoed financial rescue plans because they would have forced him to spend funds only as overseen by the city council. Last month he admitted assembling a secret "black book" on the political loyalty...
...million less. By the time the law is fully phased in, four years hence, city officials say they will have enough money left to pay Cambridge's share of county and mass transit costs, the interest on its debt, and pensions--but nothing else. No policemen. No firemen. No teachers...