Word: sheltering
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Trapped between two walls of flame, the 52 fire fighters did what their training had taught them to do to get out alive. Some pulled out their survival shelters, thin metallic covers they could throw over themselves as they fell facedown to the ground. Some looked for bare, blackened ground the fire had already consumed and moved past, creating a safety zone by default. But there were few such areas, so many of the trapped fighters raced the fire up the mountain, hoping to get over and find shelter behind a ridge above them. It was an excruciating...
Little Rock women's shelter refuses her $25,000 donation...
...produced her protective order, she was told, "We don't put people in jail for breaking a restraining order." Dana expected little better after Ted came at her with the knife on June 18. But this time a female cop, herself a battering victim, encouraged Dana to seek shelter. On Tuesday, Dana checked herself into a shelter for battered women. There, she sleeps on a floor with her two closest friends, Sam and Odie -- two cats. Odie is a survivor too. Two months ago, Ted tried to flush him down a toilet...
Dana reflects on her narrow escape. But she knows that her refuge in the shelter is only temporary. As the days go by, she grows increasingly resentful of her past, fearful of her present, and uncertain about her future. "I don't know when I'll be leaving, or where I'll be going...
...programs range from the Small Claims Advisory Service, which dispenses free legal advice to low-income individuals, to the Summer Homeless program, which operates a transitional shelter for the homeless in Porter Square...