Word: mayes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fifteen children from Worcester will be without fathers this Christmas. These men died Friday night, fighting a fire in a vacant building, searching for victims who weren't there. Four of them were double-saviors, answering a may-day call, going into the building with safety lines strapped to their backs...
...fire in Boston last year. A three-story boarding house was burning, and firefighters were trying to save the homes of several families. Two members of truck company walked up a set of smoky stairs to stretch a hose line to the second floor. Suddenly, they yelled a may-day. A ladder was brought to the second floor--quickly--and the firefighters escaped. They barely escaped injury. And the panic in their voices sticks with me today. This was a "normal" fire--an everyday happening for the men in uniform...
Most of us do these things. Some of us don't. It probably would make a difference if we did. Tragically, none of these things would have saved Jeremiah Lucey, Lt. Thomas Spencer, Timothy Jackson, Joseph McGuirk, James Lyons and Paul Brotherton. The Worcester Fire may be have been started by an arsonist, though it's still to early to tell. The firefighters entered an old factory--a maze of stairs and doors and walls--to try to find a group of homeless people allegedly living there...
...percent who don't vote are a prized constituency, often pitched to in larger proportion than their voting power may warrant...
...Clearly, candidates are eager to court youth voters, and even more important, eager to appear popular with a younger crowd. Candidates who have young and vigorous supporters may appear young and vigorous themselves...