Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Firemen clambered up rescue ladders and began helping guests from windows and balconies. Since the ladders reached only as high as the ninth floor, dozens of other firemen headed up the stair wells to fetch guests from higher floors and lead them down to safety. But the most dramatic rescues were made by eleven helicopters, nine from nearby Nellis Air Force Base, that hovered over the roof, let down cables and lifted up hundreds of guests...
...city firefighter told community residents at a meeting last week. His conclusion rests on statistics compiled by city manager James L. Sullivan which show that within three years the city would have revenue enough only to pay the interest on its debt and other fixed costs. No police. No firemen. No schools...
...until it reaches the magic level. So figure inflation prances along at 10 per cent next year; coupled with a 15 per cent reduction in city revenues that means about a 25 per cent budget cut for Cambridge. Or, in city manager Jim Sullivan's words, 100 policemen, 100 firemen, 250 or more teachers. The city's neighborhood health clinics. A score of administrators. All branch libraries. And then the next year, another 25 per cent. Except that you can only get rid of branch libraries once, so maybe 150 cops this time. Cambridge's police force...
...city firefighter told community residents at a meeting last week. His conclusion rests on statistics compiled by city manager James L. Sullivan which show that within three years the city would have revenue enough only to pay the interest on its debt and other fixed costs. No police. No firemen. No schools...
Work crews, firemen and army disaster specialists nonetheless managed to rescue many of the living. On Wednesday, five days after the quake, a ten-month-old baby girl was found hungry but unhurt. Unlike so many children wandering the streets, she was reunited with older sisters and brothers. By then, with water in short supply, sanitation hazards were increasing, and Algerian officials had begun worrying not only about epidemics but about civil disorder. One convoy was raided by villagers, angry that truckloads of food and medicine were constantly passing them by. Armed soldiers were forced to mount patrols to guard...