Word: germann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Explosion just as we pulled up in here. Get us all kinds of ambulances." That urgent message was radioed by fire battalion chief Marion Germann moments after a huge explosion at a Kansas City construction site last week. At 4 a.m. two engines manned by six fire fighters had raced to battle a blaze engulfing a pickup truck. They had barely arrived at the scene when the powerful blast erupted in a nearby trailer...
...Though Germann was a quarter-mile from the scene, the force of the explosion shattered the windshield of his car. As far as ten miles away, houses shook, and people were jolted from their beds. Forty minutes later a second detonation in another trailer bent walls, buckled ceilings and forced the evacuation of hundreds from their homes...
...dormant. "The algae that fish feed on will be wiped out in the short term," says Tom Purcell of the Environmental Protection Agency, "but they will easily be replenished from upstream." Then, too, escaped oil will eventually be broken down by naturally occurring bacteria, although the EPA's Ray Germann admits, "No one can tell how long it will take...