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Bill Dedman

Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.
— Bill Dedman time
NBC News found that FEMA has redrawn maps even for properties that have repeatedly filed claims for flood losses from previous storms. At least some of the properties are on the secret 'repetitive loss list' that FEMA sends to communities to alert them to problem properties.
— Bill Dedman loss
About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
— Bill Dedman death
Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.
— Bill Dedman art
The Secret Service once watched for people who fit the popular profile of dangerousness: the lunatic, the loner, the threatener, the hater.
— Bill Dedman people
A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.
— Bill Dedman
Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.
— Bill Dedman art
In Minneapolis, the overhead sky walks protect pedestrians from the winter cold and snow.
— Bill Dedman winter
With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.
— Bill Dedman fire
Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number of retail jobs has risen 43 percent.
— Bill Dedman man
Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.
— Bill Dedman man
Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to the reactor's core, which could expose the public to radiation. No tsunami required.
— Bill Dedman art
Federal agencies that own bridges have some of the worst records for on-time inspections. Nearly 3,000 bridges owned by U.S. government agencies went more than two years between checkups.
— Bill Dedman time
It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies.
— Bill Dedman light
'J'eet jet?' is still the standard way for a Pittsburgher to ask if you're ready for a meal, but the meal itself is no longer limited to chipped ham and an Iron City beer.
— Bill Dedman self
John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.
— Bill Dedman family
New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time.
— Bill Dedman time
Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility.
— Bill Dedman funny
The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away.
— Bill Dedman read
There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.
— Bill Dedman good
While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.
— Bill Dedman money
William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was said to describe the Montana legislators this way: 'I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.'
— Bill Dedman man
A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.
— Bill Dedman city
FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.
— Bill Dedman loss
History is the best guide to the future.
— Bill Dedman future
Firefighters go where theyre needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.
— Bill Dedman time

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