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company kills two firefighte
By James Hannah
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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NEW KNOXVILLE, Ohio
— An explosion blew the top
off a burning silo Wednesday,
killing two firefighters who
were trying to prevent the blast
and injuring nine other people,
authorities said.
The explosion sent chunks of
the 75-foot-high concrete struc
ture flying into a cemetery 100
yards away.
“It sounded like somebody
had dropped a boulder or some
thing on our home,’’ said Nancy
Buscher, 51, who lives several
houses away from the Hoge
Lumber Co.
New Knoxville Fire Chief
Scott Schroer said firefighters
had been trying to hose down
the silo, which was filled with
wood shavings and sawdust, for
about two hours when the struc
ture exploded about 9 a.m.
The two firefighters who
died were believed to have been
on top of the silo or in an aerial
bucket, Schroer said.
Kenneth Jutte, a firefighter
for 18 years, was pronounced
dead less than an hour after the
explosion. John Carman, a 10-
year veteran, died two hours
later at St. Rita’s Medical
Center in Lima.
Schroer did not know the
conditions of the nine injured
people, or how many were fire
fighters or Hoge employees.
A woman who answered the
telephone at the lumber yard
said no one was available to
talk. “We’re keeping our lines
open for emergencies,” she said
before hanging up.
Clark Froning, a co-owner of
Hoge Lumber, would not com
ment on what might have
caused the blast.
Hoge, a family-owned lum
ber company, touts itself as the
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SOURCES: ESRI: USGS;
Associated Press
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Study: Roving animals less
to thrive in captivity
likely
By Alicia Chang
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Animals that roam widely
in the wild fare poorly when
they are caged in zoos, accord
ing to a new study that calls for
an overhaul of the way such
animals are kept.
In captivity, nomadic animals
like polar bears have a higher
infant mortality rate and show
more abnormal behavior than
naturally sedentary animals do,
according to British researchers
who analyzed 40 years of scien
tific data.
The problem is so wide
spread worldwide that most
z^oos need to improve their
confinement conditions by
building larger, more complex
exhibits for roving animals,
said Georgia Mason, an
Oxford University zoologist
and the study’s lead author.
Alternatively, zoos could
phase out roaming animals.
Zookeepers have long
known that confining wide-
ranging animals can disrupt
their natural lifestyle.
The study, published in
Thursday’s issue of the journal
Nature, was partly funded by the
Universities Federation for
Animal Welfare and six British
zoos including those in Bristol
and Edinburgh.
Zoos, particularly those in
North America, have taken steps
in the last few years to build
more natural, spacious habitats,
said Michael Hutchins, directory
of conservation for the,
American Zoo and Aquarium
Association, who was not part oli,
the study. >o
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variety in their enclosures such
as borders for them to patrol
and structures for them to
climb, he said.
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