NEWS
By Peter Hermann and Peter Hermann,SUN STAFF | September 14, 2000
Four smoke detectors apparently woke Mary Gray from her sleep early yesterday, alerting her to a smoky fire in the downstairs of her Southeast Baltimore rowhouse, fire officials said. But it wasn't soon enough to avert a tragedy. She shook her husband, Richard Scott Gray, 39, but fire officials said he apparently didn't rouse from slumber. Both evidently passed out in the second-floor bedroom of their home in the 1500 block of Elrino St., officials said. They were found by firefighters responding to a neighbor's 911 call minutes past 4 a.m. Mr. Gray was pronounced dead on arrival at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
NEWS
By KNIGHT RIDDER/TRIBUNE | November 24, 1999
DALLAS -- The cockpit voice recorder from golfer Payne Stewart's Learjet has confirmed what investigators suspected: Stewart and five others aboard likely died from lack of oxygen because the airplane lost cabin pressure. The cockpit voice recorder, which picked up the last 30 minutes of sound inside the cabin, contained no voices, but there are sounds consistent with various alarms for cabin pressure and stall warnings, the National Transportation Safety Board stated yesterday.
NEWS
By Michael Dresser and Michael Dresser,SUN STAFF | June 26, 1999
Three captains at the Maryland Correctional Institution at Jessup failed to act on an explicit warning two weeks before an escape May 18 that armed robber Byron L. Smoot was planning to break out, a corrections officer has told authorities.Corrections Commissioner William W. Sondervan confirmed yesterday that the officer has submitted a written report to prison officials detailing her warning to her superiors. Sources identified the officer as Bernadette Thomas.Meanwhile, a corrections officer who was fired for failing to react to an alarm is asserting that it did not go off. In an interview with The Sun, Nina M. Polley said a microwave motion detector that should have sounded the alert was not turned on when Smoot and convicted murderer Gregory L. Lawrence fled by scaling a prison fence.
NEWS
April 3, 1998
FiresWinfield: Firefighters responded at 10: 07 p.m. Wednesday to a woods fire in the 2700 block of Sams Creek Road. Units were out 46 minutes.Mount Airy: Firefighters responded at 11: 15 p.m. Wednesday to an automatic fire alarm sounding in the 300 block of Century St. Units were out 41 minutes.Mount Airy: Firefighters responded at 12: 03 a.m. Thursday to an automatic fire alarm sounding in the 9800 block of Main St. in Montgomery County. Units were out 18 minutes.Mount Airy: Firefighters responded at 3: 50 a.m. Thursday for burning electrical wires in the 6200 block of Buffalo Road.
BUSINESS
By Julius Westheimer | October 9, 1996
WITH STOCK averages this morning hovering below record highs, but the Standard & Poor's 500 price-to-earnings ratio at 20.09 times earnings -- well above its normal level -- investors may wonder where to put money now. Here are some views:CAUTIOUS CORNER: "How much better can things get? By historical standards, not much. Be cautious." (Smart Money, Yale Hirsch.)"Stocks are overvalued on almost all long-term fundamental measures. Go 100 percent cash or sell 'short' immediately." (Crawford Perspectives.
NEWS
By John Rivera and William F. Zorzi Jr. and John Rivera and William F. Zorzi Jr.,SUN STAFF | July 12, 1996
It had all the makings of a catastrophe.Television newscasters broke into their programs last night with a report of a two-alarm fire at the historic State House in Annapolis. At least one reported that smoke and flames were shooting from the building's dome.The only thing missing was the fire.An apparent sprinkler system malfunction triggered a two-alarm response by Annapolis and Anne Arundel County firefighters and created a halo of cascading water visible for blocks.A fire alarm went off about 10: 35 p.m., with water shooting through high-pressure pipes at 1,000 gallons a minute from the basement to the dome, which is under repair and covered by scaffolding.