Two construction workers were stuck in an elevator that was filling with water, Captain Melvin explained, with a hint of amazement in his voice.
She says neighbours had alerted her to the plight of a girl who was about to drown after being placed in a hole that was filling with rainwater.
Some heated the meat on the side of the stove that was filling the tent with smoke, while others wolfed their share down straight from an improvised table.
On the third floor of the Montreal Chest Institute, at McGill University, Olga Kotelko stood before a treadmill in the center of a stuffy room that was filling up with people who had come just for her.
"And you get to sail boats like this," he said, hauling up a fluttering spinnaker that was filling with a New York Harbor breeze, pitching the big, bad boat toward Battery Park.
An article on Monday in some editions about two construction workers on Staten Island who were rescued from an elevator that was filling with water gave an incorrect name from the Fire Department for one worker.
