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...Fifteen firemen were taken to two local hospitals after exposure to chemical fumes and released, Capt. John J. Collins, fire department spokesman, said yesterday...
Campaigning in Manila, for instance, attractive Imelda Marcos one day announced supercheap prices for chickens in four public markets; the next day she granted 10% pay raises to 10,800 street sweepers, as well as thousands of policemen, firemen and schoolteachers. Addressing the vast throng gathered at the Luneta bandstand, she promised the construction of more markets, a sports center, railway system and hospitals. "These are all in the planning stage," the First Lady explained pointedly. "They will materialize only if the national government under President Marcos continues...
...strikers, who earn $121 a week after four years service, demanded a 20% pay hike that would, the union claims, boost their salaries to the current average wage for Britain's industrial workers plus a 10% bonus for hazardous duty. (New York City firemen with similar experience make $385 a week.) But to combat Britain's inflation rate, now 15.6% annually, Callaghan's Labor government has set a 10% ceiling on all union pay increases over the next year...
Though many Britons expressed sympathy for the firemen's cause, their patience is bound to be tried if the strike drags on. In Glasgow, a fire in a textile factory got away from a company of 80 troops and raged for twelve hours. The building burned to the ground. As soldiers stood by helplessly without enough foam spreaders and breathing equipment which strikers had refused to hand over, a 30-hour blaze engulfed a $140 million power plant east of London...
...some firemen, picket duty took second place to heroic professionalism in the face of sudden danger. When troopers failed to check a blaze spreading through London's St. Andrew's Hospital, six strikers donned breathing equipment and rushed into the burning building. "For God's sake, it was a hospital," said one. "This was no time for striking." At week's end, with no settlement in sight, it looked as if the main thing separating Britain from a major fire disaster was luck...