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captainsblogI learned about this morning's local tragedy from my Flist. Two EMTs, one still here, one far away. Both have worked in that area. Neither would have had anyone to rescue.
On went the television, just in time for me to see Channel 7 Eyewitless News reliving its glorious "blaze-buster" past and doing scattershot interviews with random passersby.
I couldn't take it. This is the largest single one-time taker of life in Western New York in anyone's memory.
So I went about my business, including a noon doctor's appointment. In Clarence. (Far from the scene, and I'm fine, apparently.)
On the way, though, I heard this interview with the widow of the lone fatality on the ground. She'd been in the house, too. You just have to- HAVE TO- hear her.
There isn't a live link on the WBEN website; I'm sure the hotlinks would have broken it. So they just download you the .mp3, which I saved here.
God almighty. This woman, who just lost her husband and barely escaped death when a plane practically landed on her HEAD, sounds as calm, and brave, and strong as anyone I have ever heard under anything close to these circumstances.
Oh, and the radio reporter who interviewed her? Who'd been on the beat since word of the crash came late last night when nobody knew whose house had been hit? She's related to the family. Because this is Buffalo, where the only weird thing about "six degrees of separation" is that usually it turns out to be more like THREE degrees.
My prayers are with that family, and the families of the victims of the air, and the first responders who kept this from being an even bigger tragedy if that fire had gotten out of control.
On went the television, just in time for me to see Channel 7 Eyewitless News reliving its glorious "blaze-buster" past and doing scattershot interviews with random passersby.
I couldn't take it. This is the largest single one-time taker of life in Western New York in anyone's memory.
So I went about my business, including a noon doctor's appointment. In Clarence. (Far from the scene, and I'm fine, apparently.)
On the way, though, I heard this interview with the widow of the lone fatality on the ground. She'd been in the house, too. You just have to- HAVE TO- hear her.
There isn't a live link on the WBEN website; I'm sure the hotlinks would have broken it. So they just download you the .mp3, which I saved here.
God almighty. This woman, who just lost her husband and barely escaped death when a plane practically landed on her HEAD, sounds as calm, and brave, and strong as anyone I have ever heard under anything close to these circumstances.
Oh, and the radio reporter who interviewed her? Who'd been on the beat since word of the crash came late last night when nobody knew whose house had been hit? She's related to the family. Because this is Buffalo, where the only weird thing about "six degrees of separation" is that usually it turns out to be more like THREE degrees.
My prayers are with that family, and the families of the victims of the air, and the first responders who kept this from being an even bigger tragedy if that fire had gotten out of control.
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Date: 2009-02-14 06:55 am (UTC)Dangit.
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Date: 2009-02-22 04:51 am (UTC)