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TIME's Azmy Keshawi reported by telephone from Gaza that Israeli tanks were advancing on Gaza City along the coastal road, backed by heavy shelling from navy gunships. "One navy shell hit a 13-story apartment building," says Keshawi. "Then when the fire trucks arrived and the firemen were carrying out the injured, a second shell struck the building, and through the clouds of dust I could see many were wounded...
...Indeed, there was very little in terms of first responders when La Promesse collapse. A Haitian fire department exists but in name only. It also apparently gets imaginary money: $50,000 budgeted to repair fire engines and other faulty equipment has never materialized. Meanwhile, the estimated 100 or so firemen are really police officers. "It's a non-number," says a former government security administrator. "They should be getting special training, but they don't." The so-called firemen dug with their bare hands through the concrete rubble of the school to look for and free trapped victims...
...entry high tension room. The surge created an electrical fire in the Adams basement and disrupted power in Adams and all the freshman dorms, according to Adams House Master John G. “Sean” Palfrey ’67, who was in touch with electricians and firemen arriving at the scene in the pouring rain. First entryway meetings for all freshmen were abruptly thrown into darkness. “We freaked out for two seconds, then everyone took out their cell phone,” said Enrique Nava ’12. Though the electrical fire...
...electrical overload in the Adams House C entry high tension room. The surge created an electrical fire in the Adams basement and disrupted power for both Adams and all freshman dorms, according to Adams House Master John G. "Sean" Palfrey '67, who was in touch with electricians and firemen arriving at the scene in the pouring rain...
...after the accident. Eventually they were found and hospitalized. Their present condition is unknown. All told, about 100,000 people from the Chernobyl vicinity will have to be monitored for the rest of their lives for signs of cancer. Among the most seriously injured were 300 plant workers and firemen, 24 of whom have already died. According to the Soviet press, there were others who took astonishing risks in the battle to control the seething reactor, including helicopter crews that dumped sand, lead and boron on the exposed reactor core in order to stop the massive leakage of radiation...