Larry Watters

The Hero Of The Montecito Mudslides, an article by James Fenner Photo credit: KSBY In January 2018, Southern California was struck by a series of deadly mudslides. The storm-related disaster claimed the lives of nearly two dozen people and hospitalized 163 others. A mudflow in Montecito was so powerful that it dislodged a number of houses from their foundations. Reaching speeds of up to 32 kilometers per hour (20 mph), the debris-filled wave laid waste to vehicles, trees, power lines, and …

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Irena Stanisława Sendler; was a Polish social worker, nurse, and resistance member who, as head of the children’s section of the underground Żegota Council, led efforts to smuggle about 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. Using false papers, covert routes, and safe shelters, she saved them from Nazi extermination. Arrested and tortured in 1943, she refused to betray them and escaped execution through a bribe. Honored as Righteous Among the Nations in 1965, she remained a symbol …

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