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Steve Varney said. “Every thing that was burnable, burned down.” A small but undetermined num ber of people were working in the office tower when the blaze broke out about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. During the workday the building is occupied by 3,500 people. Some workers fled down stairs in thick smoke. Others fled to the roof as the fire roiled around the 12th through 15th floors and rained glass and naming debris on downtown streets. Four helicopters with searchlights swooped around the rooftop, and one helicopter lifted 10 people to safety, officers said. fhe radic “They had 2,000-degree tempera tures they were fighting,” Manning said of the 300 firefighters. This had a potential of killing a lot of my peo ple.” No damage estimate was immedi ately available. The cause of the blaze was under investigation, said fire Cmdr. Donald Anthony. A preliminary inspection indi cated the structural framework re mained sound, said Frank Kroker, an official of the Department of Building and Safety. Firefighters wearing air tanks had to lug hoses down stairs from the roof and up from the ground to at tack the flames. Some air tanks ran out, and firefighters had to do with out them, said Fire Chief Donald Manning. A cleaning supervisor, Zora Ima- movic, said that while she and five others made their way from the 58th floor to the roof to be flown to safety, she heard a man calling for help over her two-way radio. “One of the men was saying ‘Car 33’ (a freight elevator) wasi:;Wfteu an Isi and he was screaming‘Please: Arab sheph she said. ' ■muis An The body of an unidentifif:i7 { iniles nor was found later in an elevaio the Jewish s< 12 th floor. Thirty-seven nance workers and three fire£| were treated for burns onmjjl halation, but no one wasI'jji ized, officials said. B! The fire was declared uniltl trol 3 Vt hours after it was Two survivors were not tnj down from the 37th about dawn. The skyscraper had no sf-yfptking ne system because it was builupt 1 before fire codes required klers, Manning said. Wort installing a $3.5 million systtt the bank voluntarily decided so. (he callec respond the setth Jy on the and woi ^aid. reporte er in A ish settle of fiele F ree shuttle hits this summer. N Hwy. 6 Bypass 0B PUNTATION Post Oak Mall S2 Harvey Rd Texas Ave m i he IAMII shutllc Iniscs will only m.tkc .i lew stops ibis summri .inel I’Lini.ition (Inks is one ot ihcni. And wo're pic kini> up the hill. I’l.int.ilion O.iks has sis iloor plans l< choose irom. jnc u//i, two pools basketball ! ourts and a volleyball court, metis and women's exercise rooms, eac h with a sauna, no utility deposits plus c>ns and water hills paid. Summer leases start at $170. Come by Plantation Oaks today. PLANTATION OAKS 1501 Harvey Road/693-1110 A basketful of cash is better than a garage full of 'stuff' Have a garage or yard sale this week - Call 845-2611 Pro-Iranian kidnappers free Frenchmen after three years PARIS (AP) — Three Frenchmen freed by pro-Iranian kidnappers in Beirut came home Friday to a jubi lant nation and families and friends who had awaited the day for three years. Premier Jaccjues Chirac hinted that France might restore diplomatic relations with Tehran. Diplomats Marcel Carton, 62, Marcel Fontaine, 45, and journalist Jean-Paul Kauffmann, 44, arrived at the military airport of Villacoublay in a government jet. An Iranian spokesman said its in tervention brought about the release of the three. Tehran Television, monitored in Cyrpus, quoted Ali Reza Moayyeri, a deputy prime min ister for political affairs, as saying Iran interceded for humanitarian reasons. French goverment officials den ied they struck a deal for the hos tages’ release. Fontaine said his cellmate was Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press. “We survived,” he told a reporter from the French television. “I passed the time playing dominoes and chess with my cellmate.” Asked who his companion was. Fontaine replied, “The American, Terry Anderson.” Anderson, 40, is the longest held of the 18 remaining hostages. He was kidnapped March 16, 1985. Carton, Fontaine and Kauffmann appeared ashen and shaky as they walked slowly down the airplane steps on arrival in Paris. Kauffmann drew back uncer tainly when his son, Alexander, 13, approached him. Then, when he recognized him, Kauffmann’s ex pression changed to one of delight at how much the boy had grown. Alexander put his hands on his fa ther’s shoulders and looked him in the face silently. Their eyes filled with tears. “As we all know, the liberation of our hostages falls into the frame work of our relations with Iran,” said Chirac, who greeted the men at the airport. “It’s the authorities in Tehran who intervened with the captors so that they would free our countrymen.” France and Iran broke diplomatic relations July 17 after an Iranian Embassy employee, Wahid Gordji, refused to submit to questioning about bombings in Paris in Septem ber 1986. Gordji was allowed to leave Paris two days after two French hostages were freed in Beirut. “It’s an incredible day," Kauf fmann told reporters. “But it’s also a day which remains overshadowed because we are just three.” The journalist for the weekly magazine L’Evenement de Jeudi said earlier that Michel Seurat, the 39-year-old researcher captured with him on May 22, 1985, probably died of cancer, rather than having been executed, as claimed by the kidnappers. Carton and Fontaine were kid napped March 22, 1985. Kauffman praised Seurat’s cour age and said Seurat encouraged his companions during his early days in captivity. “I’m a little ashamed to be here to day,” said Kauffman, recalling the other 18 Western hostages, includ ing nine Americans, held in Leb anon and leading what he called a nightmare life. Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, who had supervised the negotia tions, denied reports that France agreed to repay the remaining por tion of an outstanding $ 1 billion loan made by Iran’s late Shah Moham mad Reza Pahlavi. Fire damages awa Capitol office House speai-p" • Hanly awa rily report on t I The Do industrial B/ediic'sda WASHINGTON (AP)- broke out late Thursday in Capitol Hill office of Hof2,020.23. Speaker Jim Wright, D-TtS I he i. and the blaze raged unimpef scheduled for 10 minutes clue toaki etnployme lire hoses and alarms, says a :: So mom ist gressman who was oneofthtii |ata to she at the scene. jP But an; Two U.S. Capitol Policttl,Well respo cers were treated forsmoktd fflence of lation at the scene, but thqSie econo not require further medicalarfjjlortent ol tion, said officer Dan Nichols. The fire in Wright’s floor corner office of the In worth Building, across the from the Capitol, was cause: an electrical problem, saidfcjble weig trict of Columbia Deputy IfSr when t Chief Jamelia Jackson. Hetf i< mated the damages at $120.1 1 Yields and said the offices will neediBonds ha tensive restoration. Hround 9 Rep. Curt Weldon, R-PaAt g" much 1 the fire was able to spreadf«| would sta least 10 minutes after it brob"j ctmrperiti shortly after 6 p.m. because hoses which are supposed to emergency cabinets througl the building were missing. fessures :ce on in -Wall St lederal R e emplo Refinery explosion kills 1, injures 41 City Jtopfk bfeidor ret NORCO, La. (AP) — A spectac ular explosion and fire that ripped off roofs and doors rocked a Shell Oil Co. refinery Thursday, killing one worker, injuring 42 people and leaving six people missing, authori ties said. “It went boom, and then boom again,” Adam Mashia, said of the plant that is less than a mile from his home. “It knocked me to the floor and as I was getting up, it knocked me down again.” About 2,500 residents of nearby homes were evacuated while the fire raged out of control for 5'/a hours, but most were allowed to return to homesites, some partially damaged, later in the day even though the fire was not completely extinguished. The fire was under control but still burning at midafternoon. Shell officials said they felt that the best plan was to allow the fire to burn it self out. Fred Foster, manager of the Norco-Shell complex, said that res cue workers would have to wait for the fire to go out and the rubble to cool to enter the refinery. He said there was no speculation on the cause. The force of the blast left wide spread damage throughout town, and heavy black smoke hung in the sky. Virtually all windows were shat tered. Other damage included doors being blown out of their frames and roofs being lifted out of place. seeks federal aid" after explosion at Ikey Lucas, director of the St. Charles Emergency Operations, said, “I’ve never seen so much dam age in Norco, even when hurricanes have hit.” The shock wave from the blast shattered plate-glass windows as far away as New Orleans, 20 miles down the Mississippi River. People 45 miles away said they felt the blast. Shell spokesman Phil Schwin said that the damage at the refinery com plex alone was expected to run into the millions of dollars. The accident ruptured the catalytic cracker, which converts crude oil to gasoline, and seriously damaged control rooms and other facilities. It also damaged the water system, which hampered firefighting ef forts, officials said. The refinery sits amid the heavily industrialized corridor along the Mississippi River between New Or leans and Baton Rouge. Next to it is the Shell chemical plant, which had broken windows from the blast. HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Federal aid was sought Thursday for this city rocked by explosions at a space shuttle fuel plant that killed two workers, including a polio-stricken man unable to run for his life, officials said. The man, whose body has not been found since the blast Wednesday, had stayed behind to call the fire department, said an official at the Pacific Engineering and Production Co. of Nevada plant. The blasts leveled 12 buildings at the Pacific plant and a marsh mallow factory. Steel girders were twisted like pretzels and cars parked nearby were barely recog nizable chunks of melted metal. Concussions from the blasts shattered windows 10 miles away in Las Vegas, jolted airliners in flight, peeled off roofs, upended cars and threw workers through walls. Broken windows and ay into a nge Hiio, wh< Hide blin into reslau cracked foundations were cot ; jq ie ( | mon in Henderson. alreemeni More than 255 people werC j^ /| an d er jured, four critically. extension The body of Bruce Bertir C0 ,!p Orate( Halker, 56, vice president oft Under erations at Pacific, was ident& c j 1 jj c j ren Thursday. Pacific officials t t ii , he dot employees Thursday that tl- training. I\ had concluded a second work schools in Leroy Westerfield, died as wel: p proera “Mr. Westerfield hadjojH' some time ago and had diffic- rnoving rapidly,” said compf* attorney Keith Rooker. 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