Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sirens summoned medical students and off-duty cops, paramedics, firemen, nurses and priests, blood donors and structural engineers, anyone who could provide help and advice and comfort and expertise. Rescuers swarmed from all corners of the city and eventually the surrounding states as well. So many nurses showed up so quickly, said one witness, that after half an hour there was at least one nurse for every victim. A priest in purple vestments and latex gloves tried to comfort the grieving and pray for the dead...
...still in the building, still alive. They plunged into the debris, turning over cribs and furniture, hoping to find signs of life, catching their breath at the sight of babies burned beyond recognition. "We started moving bricks and rocks," said police sergeant John Avera, "and we found two babies." Firemen tenderly carried the infants, as paramedics wrapped them in long white gauze like christening dresses. Several toddlers were found wandering around the underground parking lot, searching for parents. The parents in turn scrambled through the chaos, frantic to find their children. "You haven't seen my daughter, have...
...have every saint that's made," the cashier says proudly. "We've got police officer's medals with St. Michael and medals for firemen with St. Florian. We've even got medals for the mentally ill, with St. Dymphna on them...
...went after policemen and firemen and teachers who did not live in the city but claimed the city as their residence," Samp says. "Many believed that if you were born in Cambridge, you had a right to vote in Cambridge for the rest of your life no matter where you lived...
...fireman shook his head as his unit attacked a crumbled house thought to have five people inside: a young girl, her parents, grandmother and great-grandmother. ``Until about 7 last night,'' a bystander said, ``we could hear the little girl calling okasan, okasan [mother, mother].'' But the fatigued firemen, performing a kind of triage, ignored the dwelling for easier rescues nearby. Now, as they began to dig, the crumpled house was silent. Alone in its rubble stood a large bronze statue of Kannon, a female representation of the Buddha; her name means ``the one who hears cries...