Take if from one who knows, nothing like a few good Samaritans with fire extinguishers when you need them!
Fortunately, no children were on board, and if it wasn't for some good Samaritans who were nearby, the driver may have been killed. Police said the bus driver was burned because her arms and her legs were pinned by the wreckage.
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Another school system having trouble meeting code:
As 178,000 public school students prepared to return to class in Philadelphia today, City Controller Alan Butkovitz raised questions about just how safe the schools are.
Butkovitz said impromptu inspections of 12 city schools by his office last month found serious structural problems, electrical hazards, and safety violations such as padlocked fire doors, among other problems.
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Potomac State College, WV:
Officers served an arrest warrant for destruction of property at the Campus Police office, following an investigation of the discharge of a fire extinguisher at the laundry room in Davis Hall. The incident occurred on August 30. The subject was indentified as Joshua A. Lusk, 19, of Princeton, W.Va.
Provo UT:
From the Brownsville Herald:
A Pittsfield MA. Friendly's Ice Cream restaurant was saved from fire from both a range-hood system and portable extinguishers.
A fire that started in a kitchen area damaged Friendly's Restaurant at 835 Dalton Ave. yesterday, Deputy Fire Chief Robert Czerwinski said.
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You have to hand it to 3M for this marketing stunt. Brilliant way to prove the value of your product and an amazing way to create a buzz; Google 3M Security Glass and see how many sites have picked this up!
First it was a joke in the blog world; "If you have a Dell laptop, carry a fire extinguisher". Not any more.
"Flames started to shoot out from all different directions," Juli Kupperman said.
She put out the fire with a fire extinguisher and called him at work to tell him what happened.
Heroic story from Scottland:
The owners of a luxury hotel tackled a blaze after it was set alight yesterday evening while guests dined yards away.
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