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Page 18/The Battalion/Monday, January 20,1986
World and Nation
Fire at Belmont
Up to $5 million worth of thoroughbreds killed
swe
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Associated Press
ELMONT, N.Y. — A fire Sunday
pt through a Belmont Park Race-
:k barn where a sprinkler system
had broken down just days earlier,
killing 45 thoroughbred horses
worth up to $5 million and injuring
two firefighters, authorities said.
“It looked like a fireball in the
middle of the barn. It was tough to
make a decision not to charge in
there and try to get the horses out,”
Assistant Fire Chief John Loser said.
Flames shot 50 teet into the air
from the 400-foot-long barn and it
took 200 firefighters more than an
hour to contain the early morning
blaze. Fire Chief James Snadecky
said.
Most of the horses suffocated in
their 12-foot-by-12-foot stalls where
they were tied up for the night,
Loser said.
Two horses were rescued. One
was Pleasant Sea, an offspring of
Pleasant Colony, which won the
Kentucky Derby and the Preakness
in 1981.
Track officials issued a statement
estimating the loss at $1 million for
the barn and from $500,000 to $5
million for the horses. Nassau
County police officer Howard Burtt
estimated the loss at up to $10 mil
lion.
The track is the annual home of
the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of
the Triple Crown, horse racing’s
most prestigious honor. The horses
were among more than 2,000 kept in
64 barns at the 430-acre complex on
Long Island.
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their stalls, Keenan said that wou®iominate
have been unusual.
The nature of a horse is heco®9
siders that stable his home, and
something happens, he’s rnoreii for the fi
dined to go into it than out/’hesaii
Keenan said the sprinklersysten
pipes burst last week whenthetei
perature fell to near zero.
The barn contained a hay W
and Keenan said it was possible^ jets,
hay caught fire through spom
neous combustion, an occasion
hazard with stored hay.
The cause of the fire was undete
mined, but authorities found“n«! i208billi
The fire was first spotted by a
night watchman who “saw flames
coming out of a stall in the middle of
the barn,” said John Keenan, vice
president of operations for the New
York Racing Association.
Although some of the horses
might have been able to break out of
ing that indicates it would be susf jrospect
cious,” said the head of the Nasa
County arson squad
William Guterslon.
Detective 1 arget of:
Horse owners indicated "a goo
portion of the horses were not
sured, and they will have substam;
losses,” Gutersloh said.
South Yemen’s civil war continues
Associated Press
QURAISH BORDER POST,
South Yemen — Palestinian forces
heading for Aden to try to arrange a
cease-fire were barred from crossing
this frontier post Sunday, and indi
cations were that rebel troops may
have seized control of South Yemen
in this Marxist country’s civil war.
der Post said fighting “is still contin
uing” in the capital.
“It is dangerous to proceed fur
ther because of the fighting, and
anyway, nobody is allowed through,”
said the officer in charge of the post,
who refused to give his name.
Fit
has shut down interna-
•ghting
tional communicatons with South
Diplomatic sources based along
the Persian Gulf said Sunday there
were signs that President Ali Nasser
Mohammed had been ousted, basing
their assessment on reports received
from their Aden missions and a
transmission on the government ra
dio wave length describing the presi
dent as “irresponsible.”
Yemen, and there has been no way
to verify most reports. Diplomats in
the region said the situation ap
peared ambiguous.
lead by former President Abdulfi
tab Ismail.
The Soviet Union has imporu
bases in Aden and nearby Socotnl
land and in 1979 signed a 20-ys
friendship treaty with South Yew
strategically located at the mouthi
the Red Sea. Reported Kremla
sponsored peace talks appareii
have failed to achieve a lastingtme
But the British Broadcasting
Corp. and an Israeli television mon
itor said Mohammed was on his way
back to the capital, Aden, after flee
ing to Ethiopia Saturday.
The BBC reported without attrib
ution Sunday that Mohammed was
on his way back to Aden after fleeing
to Ethiopia in his personal plane Sat
urday.
In Tel Aviv, radio and television
monitor Mickey Gurdus said he
heard Ethiopian state television an
nounce that Mohammed left Addis
Ababa for Aden Sunday afternoon.
A convoy of about 30 gras
painted military trucks carni
about 300 troops of the Falestn
Liberation Organization *
stopped at Raheda, about 12 mi
from this border post.
A radio station which said it was
transmitting from Aden on behalf of
an unidentified new leadership
broadcast a communique Sunday in
dicating that rebels had ousted Mo
hammed after a week of fighting, a
news report said.
Frontier guards at Quraish Bor-
The South Yemen fighting broke
out Jan. 13, apparently after a coup
attempt by hardline Marxists op
posed to Mohammed’s reported de
sire to liberalize the economy of his
pro-Soviet nation and to improve re
lations with Western-backed Arab
countries. The rebels reportedly are
The trucks, each flying a Ian
white flag, pulled off the mainhf
way linking the two countries an
were still there late Sunday i!
ternoon.
The fighting apparently erupt!
in Aden and then spread to Soil
Yemen’s six provinces, withtherd)
stronghold reportedly in the city
Lahaj, about 32 miles north of Adt
In London, the British govet
ment said the royal yacht Britain
headed back to South Yemen S
day after heavy fighting forcedii
cut short its rescue mission Saturdi
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