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...down a steep hillside and caught fire. A resident extinguished the fire and pulled Princess Stéphanie, her 17-year-old youngest child, from the driver's-side door (leading to speculation, eventually squelched, that the underage and unlicensed Stéphanie had been driving). Firemen extricated Princess Grace. The first confusing bulletins from the palace spoke only of a broken leg, but she never regained consciousness, and a brain scan showed irreparable damage from the stroke and her injuries. She died the next day, at 52, after Rainier and their older children, Princess Caroline, 25, and Prince...
...epidemic may. Almost two buildings are being torched a night, on average, and one in five Boston fires is set deliberately, twice the 1979 rate. Since June 11, when 101 fires were reported in twelve hours, arsonists have caused $5 million in damage. Jim Coakley is one of 16 firemen on a special roving arson squad that includes police and federal agents. "It could be anything," he says. "Profit, vandalism, imitation... Some of it is because kids decide to set a fire and get some excitement...
...hours a dozen ambulances waited for firemen to make entry safe. Lamented Volunteer Fireman Bob Bennett: "We train and train to help save lives. Then it happens, and we can't do anything but take the dead out." But Deputy Sheriff Gerald Hibbs saw something move in the rubble two hours after the crash. "Get a doctor!" he shouted. A baby started to cry. "What a sound it was," recalled Bennett. Wearing only diapers, 16-month-old Melissa Trahan was rushed to a hospital, suffering foot burns. "Just one ray of life in all this," said a policeman...
...waking everybody up, and the police were telling us to leave." More than 2,000 people were evacuated, and some 1,500 were left homeless by the most devastating fire in the history of Orange County. Estimated damages: $50 million. No one was killed, but 17 people, including seven firemen, were injured, none seriously. Said Fire Chief Robert Simpson: "We were extremely fortunate...
...financial impact statement given to the Cambridge City Council last week by City Manager Robert Healy shows that $5.1 million is not enough 350 employees would still be laid off, including 29 firemen and 30 police officers. Indeed if 2 1/2 is not eventually altered, the city will be left with next to no government. It will pay the interest on its debt, and its pension obligations, and little else...