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Man dies and three rushed to hospital after massive explosion rips through Scots home
A MAN has died after an explosion ripped through a block of flats.
The home on Kellie Place in Alloa was destroyed by the blast, which saw a major emergency response.
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Police locked down the surrounding roads as fire crews deployed specialist rescue crews to the scene.
A man was inside the flat when the explosion took place and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Three other people who were in the building during the blast were raced to Forth Valley Royal Hospital with minor injuries.
Nearby Alloa Town Hall has been opened up as a respite centre for people who lived in the other flats inside the building.
Gas and electrical crews are carrying out work at the scene as some road closures are lifted and the incident was stood down.
A probe is currently underway to find out what caused the explosion and the identity of the man who tragically died.
Sergeant Neill Drummond said: “We are still working to establish the full circumstances of what happened at this property, however, we can confirm that one male has passed away.
“Our inquiries to confirm his identity and provide his next of kin with all the necessary support they may require are ongoing.
“We are grateful to the local community for their continued cooperation and support of our investigation, and we’ll provide more information in due course.”
We told how fire service commanders dispatched urban search and rescue teams alongside a heavy rescue unit to the scene.
Local residents were left terrified after the explosion rocked the residential street.
Several streets around the damaged house were sealed off with officers standing guard.
Fire crews could be seen working on the ground near the blast site and were inspecting the building using a turntable ladder.
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Shocked locals watched on and were asking cops for information.
Brian Alexander, 45, a care worker who lives on the street said: “I was at home watching the television and then there was an almighty bang.
“I knew right away it was something serious and not fireworks.
“When I went to have a look the house down the street was missing the roof and part of the front was hanging off.
“It is quite scary.”
A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: “Operations Control mobilised a number of resources at 6.00pm on Sunday, 6 October, after we received multiple reports of an explosion and a fire within a house on Kellie Place, Alloa.
“Specialist resources including Urban Search and Rescue units and a heavy rescue unit attended.”
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In July this year, the NBA announced a blockbuster new media rights deal worth $76bn over 11 years. As part of that deal, Amazon will pay the NBA $1.8bn per year to screen a selection of live games in the US and internationally. It’s just another example of the way streaming platforms are pushing into live sport globally. Amazon has other deals to show the UEFA Champions League, the NFL, and the French Open tennis tournament.
Apple TV+ carries Major League Baseball matches in the US, and has global rights to Major League Soccer. Last year YouTube began showing NFL matches through a seven-year contract worth $14bn. And earlier this year Netflix announced it would be screening live WWE wrestling for $500mn a year from 2025.
Until recently, streamers had often avoided live sports, largely due to the high costs of rights and technical challenges involved. But the technology has improved to the point where former sticking points, such as picture quality and time lag, are now acceptable to many fans. And while expensive, live sports are a powerful way of targeting multiple demographic segments and driving new subscriptions. Ad revenues are also becoming an increasingly important component of streamers’ income. And few things can attract advertisers like live sporting events.
For the sports leagues, streamers have a global reach that is particularly attractive. Netflix alone has more than 270mn subscribers worldwide. But traditional broadcasters are fighting back.
Earlier this year, Fox, Disney, and Warner Bros announced the launch of a new streaming platform, Venu Sports. Although the venture is tied up in the legal challenge, alleging it is anticompetitive. Those three companies own 55 per cent of US sports rights. Meanwhile, in the UK, Sky Sports launched a new streaming service this summer to run alongside its traditional broadcast platform.
Another challenge for streamers is that their interest in sports rights has helped drive up prices. For example, between 2019 and 2024, the value of the US sports rights market grew by 54 per cent, compared to an overall TV industry revenue growth of just 15 per cent. While streamers’ spending on sports rights has soared recently, that explosive growth may ease off in the coming years, not least because many of the major sports rights deals still have years to run before renewal. But despite that, we may have reached a tipping point in the way viewers consume live sports.
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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.
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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.
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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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