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New York (AFP) - A New York firefighter who was working in the World Trade Center wreckage when George W. Bush first visited after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and who stood next to the then-president during his historic remarks, has died at 91, authorities said Monday. The photos of Bush speaking into a megaphone with his arm draped over Robert "Bob" Beckwith, then-69 and wearing a fireman's helmet and T-shirt, is one of the most well-known scenes from the response at so-called Ground Zero. Taken three days after Al-Qaeda hijackers rammed passenger planes into the Twin Towers, ki...
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Laplace (United States) (AFP) - Seeing her ceiling caved in, her garage door smashed and the basketball hoop overturned in her yard, Lxchelle Arceneaux looked on with despair Monday at the devastation left behind by powerful Hurricane Ida, which swept through her town near New Orleans the night before. "My children were terrified," the 46-year-old told AFP in LaPlace, Louisiana, dressed all in blue and standing at the front door of her wrecked home. "I never heard wind like this before". Arceneaux, her husband and children took shelter in a bedroom after Ida -- which blasted ashore with winds ...
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Washington (AFP) - A man who fended off attacks from a wild grizzly bear for a week straight in the Alaskan wilderness is recovering from his injuries after he was found stranded at an encampment, the US Coast Guard said. An aircrew first spotted an "SOS" sign on top of a shack during a routine helicopter flight over the west Alaskan coast last Friday, according to a Coast Guard statement. It wasn't until the aircraft flew back to inspect the message that it noticed a man waving two hands in the air. The gesture "is considered an international distress signal," the statement said. "The airc...
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Surfside (United States) (AFP) - It is the fifth day, and rescuers have heard no human sounds from within the massive, smoking pile of twisted metal and concrete. Miami-area firefighters, their faces tight with exhaustion, tunnel piece by jagged piece into the debris, searching for any sign of the more than 150 people still unaccounted for after the 12-story beachside apartment building collapsed in the middle of a sweltering Florida summer night, its residents asleep inside. For the families of the missing, the progress is agonizingly slow, and their anger, frustration and grief is palpable. ...
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Surfside (United States) (AFP) - The scores of people missing in the collapse of the beachfront condo building in Florida are no longer just a dry number but have names and faces thanks to a makeshift memorial erected nearby. On a chain link fence at a site serving as a staging ground for rescue teams and equipment, photos of some of the missing illustrate the desperation of their loved ones, waiting for news after the sudden and still unexplained tragedy in the wee hours of Thursday. Behind the fence, a block away, smoke drifts up from the rubble of the Champlain Tower South building, half of...
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Surfside (Etats-Unis) (AFP) - Staring into space or sobbing, family members of those missing in the Florida apartment building collapse waited in anguish for news of loved ones, while others scrambled for a place to live after their home was destroyed. The disaster in Surfside, near Miami Beach, left one person dead and 99 unaccounted for after the collapse early Thursday, with fears the toll may rise much higher. "Everything is gone," said Erick de Moura, 40, who was at the town's community center trying to find temporary accommodation. The Brazilian had lived for three years on the 10th floo...
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