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On the evening of December 27, 1983, firefighters in Buffalo, New York responded to a call regarding a propane gas leak. Shortly after their arrival, the propane ignited, leveling a warehouse and causing a wide swath of damage. Five firefighters and two civilians were killed in the blast and dozens more injured.
Donald Herbert joined the Buffalo Fire Department in 1986. [4] [5] On the morning of December 29, 1995 the roof of a building in which he was fighting a fire collapsed, pinning him down and starving his brain of oxygen for over six minutes.
As a consequence the original Body Shop renamed itself Body Time and remained in business until April 2018. [8] By 1991, the Body Shop had 700 branches, and Roddick was awarded the 1991 World Vision Award for Development Initiative. [9] In 1996 she told Third Way: The original Body Shop was a series of brilliant accidents.
Brockton firefighters said a final good-bye to one of their own at a solemn walk-through to pay tribute to firefighter Jason A. Gould, 46, of Middleboro, at Russell & Pica Funeral Home in Lakeville.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
In the chaos, nobody told the firefighters at the scene about that first tire explosion, said Dave Gillotte, head of the L.A. County firefighters union. And nobody told them the vehicle had been ...
Billy Shaw, a Buffalo Bills great who remains the only player to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame without playing in the NFL, died Friday, the Hall of Fame announced.He was 85 years old.
Samuel Clemens (center) with American Civil War correspondent and author George Alfred Townsend, and David Gray, editor of the Buffalo Express [1] The Courier-Express was created in 1926 by a merger of the Buffalo Daily Courier and the Buffalo Morning Express. William J. Conners, the owner of the Buffalo Courier, brought the two papers together ...