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...neighbors smelled it," explained a police officer, "and thought it was some kind of gas coming up through the chimney. So they called the gas company. The gasmen went there but couldn't figure out what it was. They called the fire department. The firemen couldn't figure it out. So they called us. We came out and said, 'We know what...
More than 1,000 police and firemen battled the blaze for three days before bringing it under control. The toll: at least 145 dead, including 43 firemen, and 500 injured. Damage may run as high as $4 million. In Caracas, which depends on the plant for 50% of its electricity, Christmas lights were dimmed and elevator use was curtailed. President Luis Herrera Campins maintained a roundthe-clock vigil, and on the country's beaches where holiday crowds traditionally revel, somber Venezuelans respected a three-day mourning period by singing public funeral Masses...
...link to Tylenol was first noted by two off-duty firemen in the area who were monitoring their police radios at home. Philip Cappitelli and Richard Keyworth compared notes over the telephone and were struck by the fact that the painkiller had been mentioned in two of the reports. "This is a wild stab, but maybe it's Tylenol," Keyworth speculated. They mentioned their hunch to their superiors...
...summer's firestorm, which has finally tapered off in recent weeks, provided Hub firefighters with some memorable nights on the job. On Friday night, August 13, only four buildings were torched--a total of $100,000 in damage, but a total of 32 alarms went off around town, and firemen used every available piece of equipment, including the city's sole fire boat. Charlestown's Engine 50 spent one Saturday night rushing to multiple-alarmers, first two miles to South Boston, then four miles from there to Jamaica Plain, then finally back to Charles town. As for the arson investigators...
...Friday or Saturday nights, about 200 "suspicious" fires have occurred in Boston. McCarthy has the luck to heard the arson squad in a city where a third of all fires are arson-related, and where the fire department is by far the most overworked in the country. One firemen's union official found that to overworked in the country. One firemen's union official found that to bring the force up to the national average of total runs and multiple alarms per engine, the city would have to reopen the 21 stations closed by budget cuts--and then create...