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  • Survivor, Nurse Describe Bus Fire That Killed 23 Hurricane Evacuees

    09/26/2005 4:09:39 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 29 replies · 1,587+ views
    AP TBO ^ | September 25, 2005 | Sheila Flynn and Betsy Blaney
    DALLAS (AP) - Edna Briant remembers lying on concrete, praying that her back wasn't broken, screaming for someone to rescue her 84-year-old sister from the burning bus that carried them and dozens of other nursing home patients away from the predicted path of Hurricane Rita. "I said, 'Get Claire!" said Edna, 87, a deep purple bruise evident on her left arm as she pointed to her sister. The two sat in side-by-side wheelchairs Sunday in a neat Dallas nursing home room, their calm smiles giving no hint of the harrowing month they had just survived. The sisters were evacuated from...