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...crowd of more than 100 Harvard students and Cantabrigians watched Cambridge firemen pry open the hood of the car, owned by Kate Gillis, and douse the burning engine with water and foam...
...well. France sent 280 rescue specialists, including 60 doctors and 30 search dogs. West Germany dispatched 56 members of a disaster-relief unit, along with five paramedics and twelve search dogs, heavy salvage gear, a medical emergency center, a mobile kitchen and medical supplies. From Britain came four London firemen, who brought with them nine thermal cameras, which use infrared sensors to detect the body heat of buried survivors...
Thus began the second day of the worst rioting in Britain since 1981. Before the violence subsided, rampaging youths, mostly black, had reduced part of Birmingham's Lozells Road area to rubble. Two men died in the disturbances, 80 policemen, firemen and residents were injured, and more than 50 homes and stores were left in ruins. Police made 190 arrests. "Utterly appalling," declared Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
...violence erupted when youths from the Lozells Road area, described by police as a drug-trafficking center, confronted officers about to ticket a black motorist and then turned on firemen who were trying to extinguish a blaze in a bingo hall. By the time police reinforcements arrived, 300 to 400 youths were looting and burning neighborhood shops, many of them owned by Asian immigrants...
...fighting crew, was trying desperately to clear the area. "I kept yelling 'Go! Get out out of the way!' " he said. Jones instructed two of his men, Brian Wilson, 38, and Ronald Beech, 51, to don safety gear and board the Boeing 737 to aid the frenetic evacuation. The firemen had just entered through the door over the right wing when the jet's rear was rattled by an explosion, perhaps caused by the ignition of the oxygen tanks that supply the plane's emergency masks. Seconds later, another blast, closer to the front, rocked the aircraft. The impact swept...