Santa Cruz Sentinel from Santa Cruz, California • Page 18

18 Santa Cruz Sentinel Thursday, April 2, 1981 few rftvi Pq IT fc Right, emergency medical technicians give oxygen and attend to the needs of hotel guests at Caesars Palace. (AP Laserphotos) Above, smoke pours from a fifth floor room in Caesars Palace Hotel in Las Vegas, Three Injured In Vegas Fire Are Still Hospitalized allowed to return to all but the fifth floor of the hotel. A convention of burglar and fire alarm companies is being held at Caesars Palace this week. The parent Caesars World issued a statement in Los Angeles claiming none of the injured was a hotel guest. But the statement declined to identify the -injured further.

Most of those requiring treatment gave out-of-town addresses. Ralph Dinsman said it was too early to determine whether the fire was deliberately set. Caesars officials said they were uncertain whether there was anyone in the suite at the time of the fire. The blaze, which sent smoke billowing through the fifth and sixth floors, was extinguished within 30 minutes of the first report of the fire shortly after 10 a.m. Dinsman said decorative concrete blocks in front of the windows of the giant hotel may have helped to prevent fire from creeping up the side of the tower and touching off blazes in upper rooms.

Mrs. Ginsburg and her husband, Morris, were on the sixth floor just above the room that caught fire. The couple said they reported the blaze to the hotel operator, then looked into the hallway and saw hotel maids pounding on doors to evacuate guests. Guests and employees later were area was not evacuated. "You'd never think you'd find yourself in the middle of a casino with a nightgown on," said hotel guest Helen Ginsburg of Denver as she sat outside a hotel restaurant.

In an effort to determine the cause of the blaze, fire investigators late Wednesday poked through the rubble of the five-room suite where firefighters had contained the flames. Fire Department spokesman Capt. Caesars Palace killed 84 people, and a Feb. 10 fire at the Las Vegas Hilton killed eight people and injured 198 others. Clark County Fire Capt.

Donald Warren was the most seriously injured Wednesday and was listed in satisfactory condition with burns on the face and shoulders. Andy Sanino, 52, of Rancho Palos Verdes, and fireman Randy Crommellin, 32, also remained hospitalized for treatment of smoke inhalation. Gamblers continued to play in the resort's casino area as fleeing guests and hotel employees made their way out the front entrance. The casino LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) Three people, including a fireman who suffered severe burns, remained hospitalized today following a fire that gutted a fifth-floor luxury suite and forced hundreds of guests to be evacuated from Caesars Palace hotel.

Sixteen people were sent to hospitals with injuries mostly described as minor after the blaze Wednesday in the 14-story central tower at the Strip resort. It was the third resort fire resulting in injury or death in Las Vegas within the past five months. A blaze last November at the MGM Grand hotel-casino across the street from Second Space Shuttle Accident Victim Dies Saturday CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) A space shuttle technician has died of injuries suffered during a rehearsal last month at the Kennedy Space Center, becoming the second fatality of that accident, officials said today. Forrest 50, died late Wednesday at Shands Teaching Hospital in Gainesville, officials said.

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He said the woman had been committed to the Spring Grove Mental Institution near Baltimore on Sept. 18, 1963, and released in the custody of her son, Charles, about a month later. Later, neighbors and friends who asked Coffman about his mother were told that she had been committed to Western State Hospital in Staunton, Va. Police said, however, that Western State reported never having a patient named Alma Ella Coffman. MOUNT RAINIER, Md.

(AP) An estate lawyer searching for documents opened a closet door in an empty home last week to find the remains of a mummified woman, according to Prince Georges County Police. "We suspect foul play," county police spokesman Arthur DiGennaro Jr. said Wednesday. Investigators believe the woman's son, now dead, had been collecting and cashing her Social Secufity checks for the past 18 years, he added. The spokesman said the lawyer, Michael Chapdelaine, was searching the house for documents that would lead him to the whereabouts of Alma Ella Coffman.

"It wasn't all that dramatic," Chapdelaine said. "It wasn't like we opened a door to get a coat and a body fell out." The woman's son, Charles W. Coffman mmmmi PUBLIC NOTICE Body Found In National Park Insulation Is Our Business Not A Sideline A Largest Inventory In Santa Crux County 1900 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Central Coast Regional Coastal Commission will consider an application No. P-81-58 by the City of Capitold for Improvements to the Capitola Wharf. These improvements include rebuilding snack shop, storage shop bait and tackle shop, boat launch area, develop mooring area and other related improvements.

The Central Coast Regional Commission will consider this application at its Monday, April 6, 1981 meeting after 1:13 p.m. The meeting will be held at the County of Santa Cruz Governmental Center, 701 Ocean Street, Room 525, Santa Cruz, California. The public is invited to provide either written or oral comments regarding this application. If you have any questions, please contact Commission Staff at 426-7390. COiXii-RCIAL though details were not immediately clear.

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(AP) A Florida teen-ager who emerged from the woods with a slashed wrist and told authorities of a suicide pact with her boyfriend, has helped rangers locate the youth's body, Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials say. Assistant Park Superintendent Jerry Eubanks said rangers, searching on foot and by helicopter, found the body of John Rudd, 19. of Sarasota. on Wednesday after a three-day search. The body was discovered in the woods about two miles from where Rudd and Janet Nichols, 18.

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