Trapped

A pickup truck overturned on a ramp leading from Interstate 70 to Route 32 about a mile south of West Friendship last night, killing one man and trapping another, state police reported.Sgt. Dan Austin of the Waterloo barracks said a 1993 Ford truck occupied by two men went out of control on the ramp from westbound I-70 to northbound Route 32 about 9: 40 p.m., crashed through a guardrail and tumbled down an embankment.Austin said one occupant was pronounced dead at the scene and that Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue units worked for almost two hours to free the man trapped inside the truck.

In "Jurassic Park," some scientists found a chunk of amber, a hard, yellowish substance formed millions of years ago from pine tree resin. It was a fossil with a dead mosquito trapped inside.The mosquito had lived during the dinosaur age. It had bitten a dinosaur and drawn some blood. The blood contained dinosaur DNA, which the scientists used to create a real dino.Amber comes from northern Europe. The largest amber supply comes from the Baltic Sea, which borders Denmark, so the Yak went to visit.

Rebecca Comfort sang a romantic song she had written for her boyfriend. She said a prayer. She prepared to die.Trapped by fire six floors below and gagging on smoke that filled her 21st-story apartment in last week's Charles Center Tower blaze in downtown Baltimore, she lay on the floor with a cordless phone -- her lifeline.The college student spoke for 90 minutes with a veteran 911 dispatcher she knew only as Susan, turning her private thoughts into a public record of terror and spiritual contemplation.

If you're into dramatic rescues, George Sullivan's "Trapped" ($4, Scholastic) is for you. It tells the true stories of people who have been trapped in caves, elevators, abandoned wells, mines, on mountains, submarines and planes. The author digs up some juicy tidbits linked to headline-making rescues.In one chapter, Sullivan recounts a class-trip nightmare: During the World Trade Center bombing, 72 kindergartners and their teachers got caught in an elevator. What was supposed to be a 90-second ride turned into a five-hour ordeal.

Firefighter Charlie J. Campbell is being called a hero after he rescued his captain who became trapped on the second floor of a burning West Baltimore rowhouse while trying to save a 62-year-old woman.Capt. Stephan G. Fugate was released yesterday from the Maryland Shock Trauma Center where he was treated for second-degree burns on his ears and minor burns to his wrists and hands.Lilly Mae Brown died in the blaze, which broke out about 7: 40 p.m. Saturday in the 1000 block of N. Payson St., said Battalion Chief William Shives.

"One of my favorite books is 'The Decision' by K.A. Applegate. It's about when Ax (an andalete) and Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel and Tobias (trapped in hawk morph) morph to mosquitoes. When they finished morphing to mosquitoes, they got trapped in Zero-Space, but soon an andalete ship comes and takes them all away. If you want to know what happens, read the book 'The Decison.' "Ronald Yi, Grade 3St. John Lane Elementary"My favorite books are the 'Amber Brown' series by Paula Danziger. Amber Brown is an 8-year-old girl like me. Everyone calls her a crayon because amber is a color and so is brown.

A toddler was being treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital last night after being found trapped in a drainage area in the basement of her Joppa home yesterday, fire officials in Harford County said.The child, who is about 15 months old and whose name was not released, was found by her father about 8 p.m. in a sump pump drain, according to Chief James B. Lyons III of the Joppa-Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company.The home is in the 1500 block of Clayton Road.Fire officials did not know last night how the child ended up in the water.

Believing that occupants were trapped inside, three Anne Arundel County police officers entered a burning townhouse in Severn last night and searched for several minutes but found no one inside, a county fire department spokesman said.Battalion Chief John Scholz, the spokesman, said Western District Officers Matthew Trott, Richard Gray and Kenneth Trader entered 1936 Arwell Court about 7: 40 p.m. after being told by neighbors that a family of five was inside the burning house.The officers suffered minor smoke inhalation; they were treated at North Arundel Hospital and released.

Two Maryland women and their search-trained German shepherds flew to Africa yesterday as part of a Federal Emergency Management Agency team effort to rescue people trapped in the wreckage of the bombed U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.Elizabeth Kreitler, 51, of Annapolis and Sonja Heritage, 37, of Bowie took their dogs -- Garret and Otto -- on their mission of "air-scenting" to find people trapped -- but still breathing -- in rubble.The women are part of a 62-member FEMA task force based in Fairfax, Va., which responds on short notice to disasters around the globe.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- The device that makes driving bearable during hot weather can also be a breeding ground for fungi.Condensation in a vehicle's air conditioner makes it a home for nasty spores that feed on insect parts trapped inside.Before long, the vents are spewing fungi and a "dirty-sock odor" along with cool air."The first thing people get are the classic allergy symptoms. Your eyes get itchy, your nose starts running and you start to sneeze," said Robert Simmons, a microbiologist at Georgia State University who has studied the problem.

SHIFANG, China -- At the moment of greatest despair, Wang Zhijun tried to kill himself by twisting his neck against the debris. Breathing had become harder as day turned to night. The chunks of brick and concrete that had buried him and his wife were pressing tighter by the hour, crushing them. Their bodies had gone numb. Then there was the rain, sharp and cold, lashing at them through the cracks. "I don't think I can make it," he told his wife, Li Wanzhi, his face just inches from hers, their arms wrapped around each other.

Around the house Check out the Earth-friendly LED lights, or light-emitting diodes, which burn brighter than regular holiday lights and consume 80 percent to 90 percent less energy. Although buying a programmable thermostat may cost upward of $100, homeowners can save about 10 percent on heating and cooling bills by purchasing one. It could possibly pay for itself in only a year. The device will turn down the heat during the hours that no one is at home, and turn it back up before people return - just make sure to program it correctly.

R. Kelly's penchant for tangled urban tales of lust, violence and deceit spirals out of control on his latest project. Today, he releases the DVD Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22. Outlandish but surprisingly funny in spots, the series cements Kelly's reputation as a provocateur of all things raunchy and ghetto. Say what you want about him. Call his music juvenile, obscene or downright tired, but he's not going anywhere. As long as there's an appetite for flamboyant tastelessness (and there will always be an appetite for that)

Huntington, Utah -- The slow-motion rescue of six trapped miners was expected to reach a critical stage yesterday evening, as a 2-inch-wide drill hole is due to reach the workers and determine whether they survived Monday's mine collapse. Rescue teams will drop a microphone and camera 1,800 feet down the shaft to try to locate the miners, who are trained to beat on the roof if they hear a drill coming toward them. No noise has been picked up from the area of the mine where the six workers were trapped during a pre-dawn cave-in.

Four people, including two police officers, were injured last night when a police cruiser was struck by another vehicle on an East Baltimore street. The cruiser turned over, trapping a police trainee, his training officer and two pedestrians. Initial reports said an Eastern District police trainee was driving a police car in the 2400 block of Llwelyn Ave. at North Montford Avenue about 11:15 p.m. when his cruiser was struck by a car being pursued by another police cruiser. Police said a pregnant woman and a child were struck by the car as it overturned and were trapped along with the officers.

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Charleston Fire Chief Rusty Thomas has defended the deployment of firefighters into a burning furniture store where nine of them died, referring to a report that a store employee was trapped inside. But the fire chief declined yesterday to provide details of events leading to the greatest single-day loss of life for firefighters in the nation since the Sept. 11 attacks, deferring questions as the department prepares for memorial services and federal agents investigate.

A plumbing company employee was trapped for several hours yesterday after a trench collapsed outside a West Baltimore home, causing injuries to his legs, a city Fire Department spokesman reported. The man's identity was not available. About 11:30 a.m., a worker for Quality Plumbing was in a 7-foot-deep, 18-foot-long trench making repairs to a sewer line leading to a house in the 2800 block of Koko Lane when a portion of one wall of the trench collapsed, trapping the man up to his knees, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, the spokesman.

It was the type of call that any seasoned Baltimore firefighter has been on a hundred times - an early morning rowhouse fire with people reportedly trapped inside. The fire engines pulled up to the two-story brick home on South Macon Street 2 1/2 minutes after dispatchers received a half-dozen 911 calls. Three firefighters - one veteran and two rookies - lugged a hose through the front door and began searching though suffocating heat and smoke. It didn't feel right. "You've got to get this place open.

It takes a real woman to play The Woman in Black. As director Irene Lewis set out to cast the formidable role of Masha in Center Stage's production of Chekhov's The Three Sisters, she knew that the authenticity the role requires would be hard to find. "Chekhov is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century," she says. "His work is highly dense - and Masha was written for Chekhov's wife, so it's a revered role." Masha, the middle of the play's three sisters, is one of the most coveted parts in all of theater.

July 28 1896 The city of Miami was incorporated. 2002 Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pa., were rescued after 77 hours underground.