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"Now we have no more hope of finding anyone else alive," said Civil Defense Minister Giuseppe Zamberletti on Friday night. He was wrong. After working through the night, rescue workers pulled two people alive from the debris Saturday morning, though one died later that day. By week's end 170...
As the rescue work continued, authorities ordered inquiries into the dams' collapse. The structures, built 24 years ago, had been sold by one mining company to another before being taken over by the present owner, the Prealpi Mineraria company of Bergamo, in 1980. The dam complex had consisted of two...
Some occupants of the Dolomiti hotel were luckier. Though the building was partly destroyed, a number of people who had huddled together in one corner of the dining room escaped the wall of water. Adolph Tirelli, a member of the Italian customs police, helped rescue one man. "We heard some...
It is now 23 years since Richard Babcock first mounted his pickup truck to rescue a colonial barn in distress, snatching a comely example of Scottish extraction, circa 1710, from the jaws of damp rot in Lenox, Mass. After eight months he had tenderly transformed her timbers into a family...
Rescue workers continued to dig through the mud and debris for additional victims, and by week's end had recovered 222 bodies. Altogether, 116 people were still known or believed to be missing.