Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fireman use a ladder to enter the building through a window in the south wall to evacuate other students on the sixth floor. Master Bullitt meets Chandler and University Police trying to break through fire exits on the seventh floor to reach any remaining students. Using a pass key, they enter three suites, but are blocked by smoke. Garland E. Allen, Senior Tutor of Quincy House, crawls along the sixth-floor hall, under the smoke, attempting to warn other students who may still be trapped...
Water directed at the blaze from an extended aerial ladder seems to douse the fire. The flames disappear, and members of the rescue squad appear at the windows of adjacant suites and bed rooms...
...firemen George Bennett, Joseph O'Hare, and John Rocca of the rescue squad from the hall and traps them at the window of 600. Clouds of smoke stream out of the windows, forcing the firemen out on the sixth-story window ledge. After a terrifying delay, the large serial ladder moves to the window, and the three men shakily climb on and descend. They were among six firemen treated for smoke inhalation at Cambridge City Hospital...
Firemen ascend the ladder toward the sixth-floor window on the courtyard side, carrying a three-inch hose. They break through the unbroken corner of the window with the nozzle and bring the fire under control...
...hours before every sunrise, he tiptoes out of the house, climbs a rickety bamboo ladder to his rooftop observation platform, built from driftwood, and aims his homemade telescope toward the sky. He has come to consider the stars old, familiar friends. It was only a month ago that he focused on the constellation Hydra, near whose tail he had spotted his first comet. Suddenly he spotted an unfamiliar glow. "It shone," says Ikeya, "like a street lamp on a misty night." All his checks confirmed what he could hardly believe: he had found another comet...