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One dead, 3 injured in Scotland flat explosion
One man has died and three people have been injured following an explosion in a block of flats in Alloa, Clackmannanshire.
The man, who has not yet been identified, was inside the property when the explosion occurred and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police and emergency services declared a major incident at the property in Kellie Place on Sunday evening.
Police Scotland Sergeant Neill Drummond said the force was “still working to establish the full circumstances of what happened at this property”, but the cause of the explosion was still unknown.
“However, we can confirm that one male has passed away,” he added.
“Our inquiries to confirm his identity and provide his next of kin with all the necessary support they may require are ongoing.”
Three other individuals who were injured were taken to Forth Valley Royal Infirmary for treatment.
Police Scotland said they had been alerted at about 18:00 that a building had been badly damaged.
Eleven vehicles were sent including specialist units, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said.
Alloa Town Hall has been opened as a respite centre for occupants of the other flats within the address, while gas and electrical work is checked.
Police said they would be “appropriately supported with alternative accommodation” if their homes were not deemed safe to return to.
The fire service said specialist urban search and rescue units and a heavy rescue unit were among the resources it had deployed.
A spokesperson said: “Crews are working with emergency service partners to make the area safe.”
A number of road closures along the A907, B9096, Kellie Place and Tullibody Road that had been implemented by police are in the process of being lifted, but further utilities work may be required, resulting in additional closures they said.
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The symmetry and light of Edward Durell Stone’s Celanese House
By Anthony Paletta
New Canaan, Connecticut, features several of the best-known modern houses in the US. There’s Philip Johnson’s Glass House, as well as designs from the rest of the Harvard Five who made their names here in the 1940s. Of the same era, Edward Durell Stone’s Celanese House is now for sale.
This four-bedroom house has an unusual past. It was built as a display home amid a brief mid-century phase when companies would commission houses as a way of showcasing their products. Some, such as Charles M Goodman’s Care-free Homes designed for Alcoa, were intended to be replicated, with each one incorporating up to 7,500lb of Alcoa aluminium. Others were standalone showhomes, such as the Celanese House.
The company Celanese (a portmanteau of cellulose and ease) produced synthetic fabrics but also branched out into wallpaper, linoleum, carpets, paint and furniture, all of which were used liberally throughout the house. They hired Edward Durell Stone for the project, co-architect of MoMA in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and the US Embassy in New Delhi.
Stone’s approach set him apart from the Modernist architects of his day. While he embraced International Style Modernism in the 1930s, he ultimately felt that Modernism was too austere for American sensibilities. His son and fellow architect Hicks Stone explains: “My father was a progenitor of a trend in architecture called New Formalism. New Formalist buildings were typically symmetrical and monumental, and the work made references to classical architecture. It was this rejection of austere Modernism that made him commercially successful.”
Stone’s classically-influenced projects made trademark use of ornamental screens and brise-soleil, most prominently at the embassy in New Delhi but also at the Celanese House. The lattice surrounds offer both privacy and light, while 12 pyramidal skylights provide light to the interior. Floating panels beneath (once filled with hanging plants) ensure illumination without glare.
The soft light was a selling point for Joel Disend who bought the house in 2008. “The panels diffuse the light coming from the skylights so it never gets in your eyes,” he says. Disend conducted a lengthy search for a modern home after his retirement. When he found the Celanese House he asked architect Nicholas Karytinos who had renovated his prior property if he would be willing to undertake the refurbishment without affecting the property’s original design.
Many of the Celanese details — which Stone did not care for — were already gone. A linoleum floor was replaced with oak. Sliding glass internal doors, no longer necessary to keep the house warm, were removed. A covered passageway, only occasionally needed in Connecticut’s climate, was subsumed into a new kitchen.
The renovation sought to respect the clean geometry of the interior. “The kitchen had no skylight and it was quite dark so we cut one into the roof,” Disend explained. They chose not to add another pyramid to avoid affecting the symmetry of the roofline. Meanwhile the existing pyramid shingles were in poor shape and were replaced.
The exterior was a blank canvas. “There was no landscaping and it needed something,” said Disend, who hired a historically-minded firm to work on the house. Stephen Lederach of Arnold Associates — a company that had worked with Stone previously — planted a meadow around the existing trees and created a formal entrance with eight symmetrical Linden trees.
Hicks Stone described Disend’s renovation as “immaculate”, adding that it “extends the Modernist vocabulary with skilful details, more so than the original home, which was fundamentally a speculative house meant to showcase a manufacturer’s product line”. A historic space, sensitively updated for the modern day.
The Celanese House is on sale for $4.7mn through Melissa Rwambuya of William Raveis Real Estate.
Photography: Edward Durell Stone’s Celanese House © Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Maida Babson Adams Garden Photography Collection. Molly Adams, photographer; William Raveis Real Estate, New Canaan
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Top Brit climber who went missing on 23,000ft mountain with her American pal breaks silence after rescue from snowstorm
A TOP British climber revealed how she feared she was going to die after getting stuck in a snowstorm 23,000ft up a mountain.
Fay Manners, 37, went missing in northern India alongside her American pal Michelle Dvorak, 31, earlier this week.
The women spent 55 hours and two nights in the horror conditions praying to be rescued after getting trapped up the Chaukhamba III mountain.
A terrifying snowstorm battered the region on Thursday as the pair attempted to become the first people to summit the Himalayan mountain.
Fay and Michelle’s bags – containing essentials like food, their tent and climbing equipment – vanished down a ravine as the weather took a turn.
Leaving them with only a sleeping bag each and very little supplies.
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Rescue teams were deployed with the women saying they could see and hear the helicopters on several occasions despite it not being able to spot them.
They were only found on Saturday when a team of French mountaineers stumbled across them and alerted the authorities.
Fay told The Telegraph the pair being found was a “small miracle”.
The professional climber revealed that she thought she was going to freeze, starve or fall to her death as the hours ticked by.
With her and Michelle at one point being forced to attempt to cross the steep glaciers without their equipment.
The ladies knew such a perilous trek was likely to have disastrous results due to the lack of protective safety gear.
Fay first realised they were in serious danger six days into the climb when they were 2,300ft below the summit as a sudden rockfall left one of their climbing ropes severed.
The rope was helping to haul up their rucksack as it tumbled down the mountain, never to be seen again.
Inside was the pair’s tent and stove as well as bundles of warm clothes and climbing equipment like ice axes and crampons.
Losing those items left both women fearing they may fall, starve or freeze to death up the mountain.
Fay said: “I watched the bag tumble down the mountain and I immediately knew the consequence of what was to come.”
After realising the severity of their situation the women decided to stay put on a ledge so they were at least safe for a few days.
Fay had sent a frantic message with Michelle back to the base camp saying they were in trouble as the pair hoped to be rescued.
A desperate search was launched with choppers scouring the snow-capped mountainous region for any sign of the experienced climbers.
But on Friday the search had to be suspended due to the arctic weather conditions and the high altitude, a source told The Sun.
Overnight the two slept in a double sleeping bag as they huddled together to get as much warmth as possible between them.
Fay recalled by the second night: “I felt hypothermic, constantly shaking and with the lack of food my body was running out of energy to keep warm.
“Saturday morning came, we both barely survived the night.
“The helicopter flew past again but couldn’t see us. We were destroyed and we were losing faith.”
The two brave climbers began to make their way back down the mountain fearing they had no other option.
Fay described the conditions as “brutal” on Saturday.
But when all hope seemed lost, a trio of French climbers who planned on scaling the very same route miraculously found the woman.
Palin Clovis, Jacques Olivier Chevallier and Vivien Berlaud gave up on their own climbing ambitions when they heard about Fay and Michelle as they started to help look for the ladies.
Fay said: “As we were abseiling down on Saturday we could see a team of climbers coming up the mountain towards us.
“When we reached them, they said they were there to help us and I cried with relief knowing we might survive.
“They supported us to get across the steep glacier that would have been impossible without our equipment, crampons and ice axes.
“They gave us their tent and sleeping bags, gave us water and food and finally told the helicopter where to come and collect us.”
On Sunday morning at around 7am local time the two women were picked up by an Indian air force chopper on the Panpatia Bank Glacier and airlifted to the town of Joshimath.
Col Madan Gurung, who helped with the rescue operation, said the women were “exhausted” when he first saw them but “perfectly fine”.
At 7am local time on Sunday (2.30am BST), an Indian air force helicopter landed at 5,300 metres above sea level on the Panpatia Bank Glacier and airlifted Ms Manners and Ms Dvorak to safety in Joshimath, a town 21 miles to the south-east.
Col Madan Gurung, who co-ordinated the rescue operation for the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF), said the women were found to be “exhausted” but in otherwise “perfectly fine” health.
Fay, from Bedford, is an pro alpinist who looks to “inspire women to pursue their interest” in mountaineering.
She moved from the UK to the Alps to follow her passion in the outdoor sport.
Her impressive climbing history includes making the first female ascent on the Phantom Direct route on the south face of the Grand Jorasses, according to her website.
She is now set to spend some time in New Delhi where she hopes to eat, relax and sleep as much as possible.
Despite the scary experience up the mountain Fay says she will continue to scale more in the future after some time off.
Michelle is also a very experienced climber and is a teaching assistant at the University of Washington, according to her Facebook.
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Search underway for couple who set Northern California Winco on fire
(FOX40.COM) — Law enforcement is asking for the public’s help to identify a couple accused of setting a Northern California Winco on Fire.
On Saturday, a man and woman walked into the Winco store at 2300 Watt Avenue in Sacramento, according to the Metro Fire. While inside, the two loaded up a cart with groceries. Officials said the woman set fire to items on the shelf in the baking aisle and proceeded to the checkout area.
The fire was contained quickly by an employee with a fire extinguisher, however, the majority of the product in that section will need to be replaced due to the smoke and extinguishing agent, according to Metro Fire.
Officials released still-shot images of the video that show the woman in a blue hoodie and the man in all black with an LA hat and sunglasses. Anyone with information about the suspects or incident can call the Metro Fire arson tip-line at 916-859-4585.
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