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From Helicopter crashes into East River in New York City The helicopter is reportedly fully submerged in the river A woman has died and two others are seriously injured after a helicopter plunged into a river in New York City shortly after take-off, officials say. Witnesses described how the privately owned Bell 206 aircraft span [...]
When a subcontracting firm – the “John Galt Corporation” – is named for the protagonist in an anti-union, anti-government-regulator novel (Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead) it is to be hoped that at least one decision-maker would have thought it disturbing to put such a firm in charge of safety. (See David W. Dunlap’s “A Literary Footnote [...]
Good news from one of our local fire companies, Ladder 102: From A.M N.Y./Newsday: Nearly three years after two New York City firefighters jumped from a burning building and plunged to their deaths, a 24-year FDNY veteran Monday became the first to use a widely hailed safety device to escape from a Brooklyn house fire [...]