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For nearly three years now, 10 portraits on the outer wall of a Beirut fire station have honoured its firefighters killed in the explosion at the city's port. Their surviving colleagues, grinding on as Lebanon's economic meltdown guts their salaries and budgets for repairs and equipment while a threat of wildfires looms large, say Aug. 4, 2020, remains burned in their memories. "As a fire brigade, we extract corpses, we see ugly things other people can't bear. but the port blast was something else," brigade chief Captain Ali Najem told Reuters.
BEIRUT: For nearly three years now, 10 portraits on the outer wall of a Beirut fire station have honoured its firefighters killed in the explosion at the city's port. Their surviving colleagues, grinding on as Lebanon's economic meltdown guts their salaries and budgets for repairs and equipment while a thr
For nearly three years now, 10 portraits on the outer wall of a Beirut fire station have honoured its fire-fighters killed in the explosion at the city s port, Reuters reports. Their surviving coll.