Category Archives: Viva!

34 Injured, Children Tossed Out Window In 5-Alarm Fire On Staten Island: Gothamist

“The father was stuck up there, dangling his son outside…he couldn’t do anything — black smoke was just billowing out that window. So I went underneath — he threw him right to me and I caught his son… I yelled out to him, ‘just throw them out, just throw them out.'”

DiSimone caught the boy, who seems to be around 5 years old, while his fiancee caught a girl who seems to be around 3 years old.

Firefighters also rushed into the buildings to rescue residents. The FDNY’s Eric Bischoff told WABC 7:

“It was an extraordinary rescue that occurred here tonight. Upon arrival, firefighters had seen that two small children were already thrown from the window. Looking at the second-floor window, heavy fire was blowing out of the window, and two civilians were trapped, screaming, behind window bars. The quick actions of the firefighters made the difference between life and death. Three of the firefighters from Ladder 81 had to send in the aerial ladder and broke the window bars. By that time, the two civilians were already overcome and passed out by smoke. They entered the raging inferno an extricated those victims, who I am told have survived.

All told, the FDNY rescued 11 residents, including six children. The injured civilians and firefighters suffered minor injuries.

via 34 Injured, Children Tossed Out Window In 5-Alarm Fire On Staten Island: Gothamist.

Life Lessons from Anne Shirley –

It is no secret that I feel like the literary character Anne Shirley and I are essentially the same person. Growing up, playing with & talking to Anne was like interacting with my twin flame. And what ardent flames we are indeed!

It’s astonishing when your own beliefs & general disposition toward life are mirrored in someone else’s writing, and it’s liberating when you realise that you’re neither insane nor alone 😉 That’s the power of fiction, baby!

via Life Lessons from Anne Shirley –.

The Spokesman-Review: Wandering wolf, OR-7, and new mate have pups

The speculation is over on whether Oregon’s famous radio-collared wandering wolf has a mate.

OR-7 and its mate have produced pups, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has confirmed.

See other images of OR-7, its mate and other Oregon wolves at ODFW’s wolf photo gallery

OR-7, the name given to the male wolf when it was first captured, radio-collared and released in northeast Oregon, found a mate in the Rogue River area of southwest Oregon’s Cascade Mountains after capturing worldwide attention as its movements were followed on the web through Oregon and California.

via The Spokesman-Review: Wandering wolf, OR-7, and new mate have pups.

Growing Up To Be Like Yuri Kochiyama | Race Files

She may be best known in the public eye for the iconic picture that shows her cradling Malcolm X’s head in her lap after he was killed in a Manhattan auditorium, but Yuri Kochiyama’s life and legacy stood for much more, especially to Asian Americans. Many of us learned of Yuri Kochiyama’s recent death, not from mainstream news outlets, which have yet to do her legacy full justice, but from one another. And we have had very similar collective responses: tremendous gratitude for how she influenced us, coupled with a redoubling of our commitment to the principles she lived by.

via Growing Up To Be Like Yuri Kochiyama | Race Files.