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** One person died. Carbon Monoxide poisoning from a generator.
* During the Halifax Explosion in 1917, Vince Coleman made one of these by performing a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. He was warned that a munitions ship was on fire, and instead of abandoning his post as a railway telegraph operator, he continued to send out warnings to passenger trains, saving hundreds of lives. He was still in the telegraph shack when the explosion occurred, and was killed instantly.
{{quote|"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."}}
* Copied from the [[Real Life]] [[Heroic Sacrifice]] page, this example: Following the March 11, 2011 earthquake, Miki Endo, a young Crisis Management worker in Minami Sanriku near Sendai, broadcasted a tsunami warning and was credited with saving the lives of nearly 7,000 people in her town. She stayed at the mic warning people to flee until the 10-meter wave crushed the building she was broadcasting from.
** Fujio Koshita, at 57 the senior Otsuchi firefighter, died standing on top of the firehouse ringing the old warning bell, because the March 11th earthquake killed all electrical power in the town. His bell was heard ringing through the town until the tsunami swept him, and the firehouse, away.
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