Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is more reconstruction here than in Siam, Burma and Indonesia combined. All night long, air hammers and steam shovels stutter and grunt through Manila's pleasantly cool darkness. In daylight, thousands of new passenger cars and bright orange and yellow buses, but above all jeeps-taxi jeeps, truck jeeps and passenger jeeps-turn downtown Manila into a honking, gear-clashing bedlam of traffic...
...rescue man's duty only ceases when a competent medical authority has taken over even though the patient may have been dead for hours. When ambulances are lacking, the red truck must often carry injured persons to a hospital...
Equipment on the rescue truck includes a two way radio, oxygen, blankets, first aid materials and even rubber boats to rescue victims floundering in lakes and rivers
Winter ice annually brings a spurt to auto accidents. Last Friday, for example, a passenger car pinned two taxicab riders in a night time smashup. After all efforts to extricate the trapped victims had proved unsuccessful the rescue truck arrived at the scene and exacted an escape...
...times that the squad's emergency-equipped truck was called out last year, about a quarter were for non-fire rescue purposes. Spectacularly and gruesomeness are part and parcel of jobs undertaken by the four squad men, who only recently had to jack a subway train up in order "to get a guy out from under...