3 WORKERS KILLED WHEN TV TOWER CRASHES IN HIGH WIND.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A 1,500-foot transmission tower collapsed into a mass of twisted metal
Twisted Metal is the first game in the Twisted Metal vehicular combat series. Saturday, killing three workers on the tower who earlier discussed cutting short their repairs because it was too windy. Dallas-Fort Worth television station KXAS - one of the stations that uses the tower - reported a gust of wind caught the machine used to hoist materials up to the workers. The device fell, breaking a guy wire and causing the tower to fall. ``When people said `The tower!' I turned and looked and just saw the motion of the last of the tower disappearing between the tree line,'' said police Lt. Jim Zerban. ``It was up and then it was down. It was very, very fast.'' The red and white tower - which once stood 50 feet taller than the Sears Tower Sears Tower, Chicago, the world's third tallest building. Until the opening of the 1,483-ft (452-m) Petronas Towers (1997) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, it was the world's tallest building. Constructed from 1970 to 1974 for Sears, Roebuck & Co. in Chicago - snapped nearby power lines as it fell and caused a transformer to explode, starting a small fire that was quickly extinguished ex·tin·guish tr.v. ex·tin·guished, ex·tin·guish·ing, ex·tin·guish·es 1. To put out (a fire, for example); quench. 2. To put an end to (hopes, for example); destroy. See Synonyms at abolish. 3. . Harold Nash Harold Nash, Jr. (born May 5, 1970 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a current American football assistant strength and conditioning coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He was also a former defensive back in the Canadian Football League. , chief engineer at KXAS' sister station, KXTX, and the manager of the tower, said the maintenance workers were preparing to install a new antenna. Less than three hours before the accident, he said, the workers agreed that conditions would not allow them to carry through with their plans to remove the old antenna. |
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