Girls 50 meter flushed through sewage pipes

London - A blessing in disguise! In the English Durham Leona Baxter was flushed through a drain pipe 50 meters into a river. Miraculously surviving the Triennial. She retired only a few scratches.
As the father said Mark Baxter, according to media reports, he had saved his daughter by jumping into the swollen river from flooding.
The parents were pleased with the threes, her sister and her dog went for a walk in the park. Leona disappeared suddenly, as siein splashed a puddle. Her father took a panic into the stagnant water and discovered an open manhole. "I thought, if it is spat out somewhere, then in the river," said the 34-year-old. "I ran to the river, I thought I saw Leona's coat. But it was not just her coat, it was Leona mitdem face under water."
Then he grabbed the girl not breathing. The incoming police rendered first aid. Leona told her parents how they wanted to keep themselves afloat. "Daddy, I could not because I was stuck in a tunnel."

Ingo is the lighthouse keeper from Ehrenfeld

Ingo Kreutz (40) loves his job. Since one and a half years he cared for as a janitor at the Helios site Venloerstraße. He EXPRESSzeigte the highest point of his workplace - the lighthouse Ehrenfeld!
To these views of many colleagues envied him. Once a month, Ingo Kreutz strode up and checks out the neon lights. After more than 150 steps and a metal stairway, it goes through a ground-level windows on the balcony of the tower. "The view here is wonderful," says the father of two children. "In this job I have found my fulfillment."
The terrain is dear to his heart. "The artists and the many other tenants are all nice people, it's great fun to work here."
Every morning at seven clock he begins his work and looking after things. On the job, he came by a roundabout route. Since he was 23 Kreutz years worked as a crane operator for the Bauwens group. After restructuring, he took over the on-site support for some objects of Bauwens - as well as for Helios, the Bauwens and two other investors heard.
From 1882 to 1930 Helios here produced fluorescent lights and traffic engineering. In two years are on the site are additional homes and offices. In a few weeks will be opened in a part of a new design center. Artists have their studios here already.
However, the lighthouse is a listed building, and so Ingo Kreutz will grow in the future once a month over the rooftops Ehrenfeld and check the lights.

Oldest U.S. death row inmate († 94) died

Florence --
More than half of his life was spent behind bars, at the end waiting for Viva Leroy Nash, the lethal injection. But then came the nature of the judiciary before: The oldest death row inmate died in the U.S. on Friday night at the age of 94 years in prison in Florence (Arizona), a natural death.
The local radio station KOLD reported on Sunday. There he sat a cold-blooded since 1983 for the murder of an employee of a Münzhandlung in Phoenix the year before. Nash's criminal career reached U.S. media reported back to the 30s. He spent 25 years behind bars, because he shot a police officer in Connecticut, 1947.
Because Nash 1977 a man in Salt Lake City (Utah) killed with a bullet, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1982, he escaped during a work operation outside the prison. A month later he shot and killed at the age of 67 years in Phoenix, the coin dealer.
In September, the newspaper "Arizona Republic had moved," according to Nash - born in 1915 - the chance to reach to take off from the death cell. His lawyer had argued before the court, Nash is no longer responsible for his actions because of mental deterioration. The entry has since amounted to a district court in Phoenix.
In Arizona, the Information Center for information have been executed since the reinstatement of death penalty executions in the United States 34 years ago 23 people. Since 1999, the number of executions in the United States has fallen dramatically: from 284 to 106 in the past year, according to Information. In Arizona, there had been, therefore, 2009 not only execution.

Kaspar, Blomquist of Krefeld

Krefeld - Kaspar Krebbers passionate playing detective. His parents have asked him for the necessary equipment. Fingerprints take the ten-year best.
On 11 March wants to play Kaspar to a friend after Bockum, of course, a detective. But out of the game gets rough. He is a suspicious-looking man meet on a racing bike.
A few yards further complains that the man who robbed a beauty parlor, the bike into a bush, took off his cap and jacket and throws it away as well. Kaspar was clear: This is a crook. "I thought 'I am Blomquist - before the police here," says the fifth grader.
As a detective, he naturally assumes it face down on the pursuit. "The man has always turned around. That's why I've always gone to the side so he does not see me. "
Kaspar lose sight of the man at some point. When he sees a patrol car, he runs to the police and tell everything. "Only through him we have taken the dangerous serial predator. He now sits in jail, "says police chief Rainer Furth.
Kaspar same time he has been invited to police headquarters. Of course, he found the records department with the fingerprints on the most exciting. "I want to be a policeman," says the student. "The stuff he has to. It could certainly be a good cop, "believes Furth. The President and the Mayor of Krefeld, Gregory Kathstede, Kaspar honored on Tuesday in the Town Hall for his moral courage. "I hope that Kaspar will be a role model for his peers," says Kathstede.
In addition to the ten year olds were still honored 13 other courageous Krefeld. Among Lothar Amendt. He put on 27 January, a woman from a burning car. Without his courageous intervention of the woman had died.

How to make Christmas safe

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Gentle master of the house sleeps in front of the TV, while smoldering behind him in the withered branches of the Christmas tree to begin. Despite all the warnings that happens all too often.
"Arise in the Advent season in German households every year to 36 million euro loss in about 15,000 cases," estimates Katrin Rueter de Escobar of General Association of German Insurers (GDV), Berlin. Most fires were the cause. "
Such disasters can be fatal but easily preventable - HERE tips, not damitt the festival is for fire disaster.
How to make Christmas safe
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• Even when you buy there is something to note: During transport to the car roof Christmas trees must be secured with ratchet straps. Rubber belts or expanders can tear at high loads, as shown in a crash test conducted by ADAC.
• Generally, the Christmas tree down during transport in or on the car safely stowed. Otherwise face a fine.
• When transporting inside the vehicle may be the driver's view forward, not restricted to the right and left.
• It is important at home, then the secure state of the tree. That no one needs to crawl under the tree. "Today the market almost exclusively Christmas tree stand with cable technology available," said Lothar Beckmann from the Stiftung Warentest in Berlin. This enables the tree to fix comfortably by foot lever. Susanne Woelk, director of the Action "The Safe House" (DSH) in Hamburg, rather than the recommended one-rope of the four-rope technique, in which the rope passes directly through all clamping claws.
• The majority of Christmas tree stands are now combined with a water tank, which stabilizes the tree and watered. "When the tree comes into the heated house, he's there like a bunch of flowers" says Beckmann: "Without irrigation, it dries out quickly needling, and is much more flammable." Therefore, consumers should not sharpen to the trunk from the dealer, but even Fresh sawing.
• To avoid tipping, the tree should not stand in the draft between the door and windows. If in doubt, it is better to place it in addition to the wall, say, with florist wire - but only so that it is for children not be tripped over.
• Is the tree decorated with real wax candles, must also be curtains, paper and furniture out of reach. Who playful pets, the tinsel is better not to the lowest branches or the tree is on a stable table. When lighting is the rule of thumb, start at the top and vorzuarbeiten down. When deleting the candles the other way.
• For those who prefer light chains should resort to high-quality products, advises Stefanie Drückler by TUV Rheinland. Only chains with the GS symbol for "tested safety" had been tested by impartial investigators.
• Reputable manufacturers also put on reserve lamp. If a lamp to break the chain, it should be quickly replaced. Otherwise, the remaining lamps heat up even more, the fire risk increases. Tree ornaments made of felt or straw, therefore, does not belong in the neighborhood of lights, "warns Lothar Beckmann (Stiftung Warentest).
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