Showing posts with label firefighters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label firefighters. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

1 dead, 4 injured in four-alarm blaze in New Jersey | Essentials

1 dead, 4 injured in four-alarm blaze in New Jersey

Cali Condoze
Cali Condoze by Keoni Cabral
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License
Excerpt:

JERSEY CITY, N.J. –  Authorities say an elderly resident was killed and four firefighters were injured by a massive blaze that engulfed two apartment buildings in Jersey City. Fire Chief Darren Rivers says 80-year-old Walter Highsmith died in Monday's fire. City Spokesman Stan Eason says Highsmith lived in a first floor apartment of one of the buildings. Rivers says one firefighter fell three stories from a ladder and is hospitalized in serious but stable condition. Eason says the injured firefighter suffered broken bones and possibly a collapsed lung, while three other firefighters suffered minor injuries. The four-alarm fire broke out shortly after noon in a three-story building on Bramhall Avenue and soon spread to an adjoining building. Each building has six apartments. Chief Rivers says the cause of the blaze remains under investigation.

People:

Darren Rivers

Overall Sentiment: -0.230494

Relevance: 0.863

Walter Highsmith

Overall Sentiment: -0.413868

Relevance: 0.68961

Disambiguation: FootballPlayerReferences:

Stan Eason

Overall Sentiment: -0.486999

Relevance: 0.656348

Additional Info:

City: JERSEY CITY

Overall Sentiment: -0.248909

Relevance: 0.534414

URL Meta Details
Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , , , ,

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Smoke From Fire Fills Sky Near Atlanta Airport | Essentials

Smoke From Fire Fills Sky Near Atlanta Airport

Excerpt:

A spokeswoman for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport says there were no flight delays as a result. Spokeswoman Myrna White says the airport's operations team was closely monitoring the situation. Fire officials say the blaze was reported at a vacant building once used as a training facility for firefighters. There were no immediate reports of any injuries. Hartsfield-Jackson, which is located south of downtown Atlanta, is the world's busiest airport. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the fire was burning as early as 5:30 am. , and that firefighters were taking a defensive posture in battling the blaze. It was unclear late Thursday morning if the fire had been brought under control.

People:

Hartsfield-Jackson

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.527874

Myrna White

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.351103

URL Tags Info
Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , , , ,

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Sick babies carried down 9 flights during evacuation | Reduction

Sick babies carried down 9 flights during evacuation

A perfect storm...
A perfect storm... by Gemma Stiles
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License
Excerpt:

(CNN) -- At times with only flashlights to illuminate the way, NYU Langone Medical Center was evacuating some 260 patients, carrying some of them down 15 flights of stairs to awaiting ambulances ready to take them to the safety of other hospitals. NYU didn't anticipate such heavy flooding from Sandy, the superstorm that hit Monday, and chose not to evacuate all its patients before the storm, as they did with Hurricane Irene a year ago. But between 7 and 7:45 p.m. Monday, the hospital's basement, lower floors, and elevator shafts filled with 10 to 12 feet of water, and the hospital lost its power, according to Dr. Andrew Brotman, senior vice president and vice dean for clinical affairs and strategy. "Things went downhill very, very rapidly and very unexpectedly," he said.

People:

Dr. Andrew Brotman

Overall Sentiment: -0.179635

Relevance: 0.843947

SentimentQuote
-0.261831"This is a labor intensive, extremely difficult process," Brotman said. ...
0"Everybody's digging in and doing what they have to do," Brotman said. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.261831
  • Mean: -0.1309155
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Sandy

Overall Sentiment: 0.0906276

Relevance: 0.370852

Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

City: New York

Overall Sentiment: -0.0380982

Relevance: 0.372411

Disambiguation: GeographicFeature | AdministrativeDivision | GovernmentalJurisdiction | Island | PlaceWithNeighborhoods | USCountyReferences:

NaturalDisaster: Hurricane Irene

Overall Sentiment: 0.0244521

Relevance: 0.324981

Company: CNN

Overall Sentiment: 0.107284

Relevance: 0.300335

URL Tags Details
Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , , , ,

Monday, December 17, 2012

Search for Cause of Deadly Indianapolis Explosion | Synopsis

Search for Cause of Deadly Indianapolis Explosion

Shrewsbury Blast Fund Event 30/01/2010
Shrewsbury Blast Fund Event 30/01/2010 by JonTandy
License (according to Flickr): Attribution-ShareAlike License
Excerpt:

Authorities say a loud explosion has leveled a home in Indianapolis and set four others ablaze in a neighborhood, causing several injuries on Saturday Nov. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Matt Kryger) The blast was so loud it woke people as far as three miles away, triggering thoughts of a plane crash or earthquake. Alex Pflanzer was sound asleep when his home's windows blew out and his wife started screaming. What he didn't know — what nobody knew Saturday night about an hour before midnight — was that something had caused an explosion that leveled at least two nearby houses in this middle-class Indianapolis neighborhood so far south that it's almost a suburb. The blast killed two people and rendered whole blocks uninhabitable. The cause of the explosion remains under investigation. "I didn't know what was going on," Pflanzer said.

People:

Alex Pflanzer

Overall Sentiment: -0.0378309

Relevance: 0.746493

SentimentQuote
0"I didn't know what was going on," Pflanzer said. ...
-0.149313"I didn't know what was going on," Pflanzer said. "I thought someone was breaking in the house, because the alarm was going off."
-0.0952854"I walked outside and all the houses were on fire," he said. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 3
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.2445984
  • Mean: -0.0815328
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Rep. Andre Carson

Overall Sentiment: -0.136092

Relevance: 0.400094

Disambiguation: References:

Jennifer Longworth

Overall Sentiment: -0.0646295

Relevance: 0.396517

Kenny Bacon

Overall Sentiment: -0.0631748

Relevance: 0.394

SentimentQuote
-0.0787086"There are houses that will have to be torn down," Deputy Fire Chief Kenny Bacon said. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.0787086
  • Mean: -0.0787086
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Adam Collins

Overall Sentiment: -0.382328

Relevance: 0.368956

John Dion Longworth

Overall Sentiment: -0.269474

Relevance: 0.363955

Matt Kryger

Overall Sentiment: -0.0542148

Relevance: 0.357462

Dan Able

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.322458

Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

TelevisionStation: WTHR-TV

Overall Sentiment: 0.226489

Relevance: 0.350528

Disambiguation: BroadcastReferences:

FieldTerminology: gas leak

Overall Sentiment: -0.133924

Relevance: 0.33337

Organization: Southwest Elementary School

Overall Sentiment: 0.134852

Relevance: 0.365423

Site Meta Tags
Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , , , ,
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)