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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | | | Official: 95 pct. accounted for after Conn. blast | |
Feb 08, 2010 - 10:22 AM - by KingStubby |
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. ? A Connecticut fire official says at least 95 percent of the nearly 100 workers who were at a power plant that exploded are accounted for.
 The Kleen Energy plant from above.
Middletown Deputy Fire Marshal Al Santostefano said Monday that most of the workers are accounted for, judging by conversations with contractors and labor union officials. But he says a section of the Kleen Energy Systems plant remains too unstable to see whether anyone is still trapped.
Authorities say different contractors were working at the site, making it difficult to determine how many people were there during the blast.
Sunday's explosion at the nearly completed plant in Middletown, about 20 miles south of Hartford, killed at least five people and injured a dozen or more. Officials say it happened as workers were clearing a gas line of air.
Local, state and federal officials are investigating.
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0 Replies | 8 Views | | Swiss cops: man survived 17 hours under avalanche | |
Feb 07, 2010 - 1:46 PM - by KingStubby |
EVOLENE, Switzerland - A young skier was buried beneath an avalanche for 17 hours before being pulled from the snow with only mild hypothermia, Swiss police said Sunday.
 17 hours under this.
The 21-year-old man appeared to have survived because he was trapped next to a pocket of air that allowed him to breathe even though he was unable to free himself from the crushing weight of the snow, police in the southern canton of Valais said.
"I've never heard of such a case before," said police spokesman Jean-Marie Bornet. "It's already very difficult to survive more than 45 minutes beneath an avalanche."
The man, who had been skiing alone on an unmarked slope in the Evolene region about 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of Geneva, was reported missing by his family at 4.30 p.m. Saturday, police said.
Rescuers with sniffer dogs found ski tracks leading to where a large avalanche had come down but had to break off their search overnight for safety reasons.
On Sunday morning a helicopter crew spotted movement on the surface and rescuers were able to pull the man out from beneath 20 inches (half a meter) of snow, said Bornet.
The unidentified Swiss skier has been hospitalized but appears to have suffered no serious injuries, Bornet said.
"He's a very lucky man," he said.
Dozens of skiers are killed by avalanches in the Swiss Alps each year.
Last month a series of avalanches at the same spot killed six people in central Switzerland, the country's worst such disaster in more than a decade.
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