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...third floor, Boarder Alice Conners smelled smoke, woke as many as she could. One aged man and two aged women abandoned hope of rescue, plunged from the third-story windows to death on the sidewalks. Firemen came in time to snatch six through windows and down the ladders before the gale-whipped flames enshrouded the building. The ailing, the infirm and the bedridden in Isaac Hull's boardinghouse had no chance...
...hour later, the ice-shrouded, gutted building had cooled. Inside, firemen found charred bodies, some of them piled near windows, others still in bed. In all, 33 had died. It was the worst fire in Newfoundland since the K. of C. Hostel blaze claimed 100 in 1942. Two years after the Fire Department and City Council had recommended fire escapes for Hull Home, the city began an inquiry to find out why they had never been installed...
...Venezuela's capital, the report spread quickly : Caracas was going to be bombed. Squads of firemen took up emergency stations. The National Guard was called out. Hundreds of families left the city for the country. Caraqueños, who have never known an air raid, need not have been panicky. President Romulo Betancourt was on top of the situation, and besides, the bombing was not due until Feb. 15, the inauguration day of his successor, Novelist Romulo Gallegos...
Hank Iba insists that "firewagon basketball is only for a crew of firemen." He keeps hammering "ball control" into his players until they dream about it. Iba's first rule: "Never shoot unless you have the percentages with you that the shot will be good." There is only one ball in a basketball game, he likes to say, and as long as you have it the other team can't score...
Detail. In Rockymount, Va., volunteer firemen ran to the engine house to answer an alarm, there discovered that none of them knew how to drive the fire truck...