| Fire Chief says mutual aid saved lives last Monday
People need to know that mutual aid made a very big difference in this fire and probably prevented us from having a real tragedy here," the chief said.
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Staff writer Mark E. Vogler writes Milling Around each week for the Sunday Eagle-Tribune. He can be reached at 978-946-2291 or mvogler@eagletribune.com.
Answering the Call
Here's a chronology of how 13 area Fire Departments responded to last week's seven-alarm fire in Lawrence and what vehicles they brought.
First Alarm: 2:35 a.m.
Second Alarm: 2:38 a.m.
Third Alarm: 2:39 a.m. Andover (pump), Lowell (ladder truck), Methuen (pump) and North Andover (pump) report to fire scene.
Fourth Alarm: 2:49 a.m. Dracut (pump), Haverhill (pump), Middleton (pump), and Salem, N.H.
AS WE WERE: The first edition of the Glasgow Advertiser, as The Herald ...
The first issue of the Glasgow Advertiser, as The Herald was first known, published 225 years ago this weekend, is a fascinating document, showing how the city's fortunes were locked into those of North America, continental Europe and India. Trade with all three of these regions was vital to the city economy, but war and the rumour of war were depressing the markets. Famine across much of Scotland was not helping prospects either. But as the news unfolds - for it is placed in the paper in the order it was received - a new order emerges: Britain has concluded a peace with France and Spain, but its 13 American colonies have been lost. For Glasgow, this means the end of the Tobacco Lords, but a resumption of trade with the continent and the promise of trade - on far less fortunate terms - with the emerging country called America.
ARE THE CLINTONS LIARS? - Fact check #1
It seems that the Clintons want to play dirty so let's get down in the mire with them. They accused Obama of having a SLUM LORD as a client. Well, again, that is a total LIE. For confirmation of the lie, go to the following link, please: http://news.yahoo.com:80/s/huffpost/20080124/cm_huffpost/083040 This is only one response to this particular accusation. There are plenty more online. Once again, my friends, read, read, and read some more about the Clintons. They have a spicy and quite interesting past and I can't believe they are trying to find something in Obama's past that could possibly equal theirs. By their accusations, they have opened the way to investigate their past in return. Oops, that might have been a mistake on their part, don't you think? With a past like theirs, I wouldn't even mention the word past in any of my comments if I were them! But, the Clintons get so mean when they're angry, they just want to strike back and hurt.
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