NY Times:
While it has been previously reported in the NY Times that John McCain really, really, really, really wanted Joe Lieberman to be his running mate and had to be talked out of it because conservatives were grumbling, it's now clear that Steve Schmidt not only did the talking down but also pushed the selection of Sarah Palin, according to the LA Times. Who would've thought that a woman with less than 2 years as a governor, 8 as a mayor and less than a year in a political patronage position could have so much baggage? From a pregnant underage daughter to firing scandals reminiscent of the ones the GOP tried to tar the Clintons with not too long ago (Travelgate, anyone) to rape kits, few people would disagree that the campaign couldn't used just a little bit more time and expended a lot more effort on the vetting process.
"Couldn't" should be "could have".
P.S. I know I probably have way more "Copy edit the world" than I need but I found this document that I had been keeping while reading articles with all of these juicy ones in it. I had totally forgotten that I had been saving these! Plus I live so far away from the extra credit...hehe just kidding!
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Copy Edit the World #9
In a seminal study that probably surprises few people, a study of both male-to-female and female-to-male transgender people shows that men who become women make less money afterwards and women who become men make more. This is especially unsurprisingly to Stamford scientist Ben Barres, who made waves when pointed out that he does better and is more respected as a male scientist than he was as a woman. [Time, Science Daily]
It should be "unsurprising" not "unsurprisingly" and it should be "Stanford" not "Stamford".
It should be "unsurprising" not "unsurprisingly" and it should be "Stanford" not "Stamford".
Copy Edit the World #8
Analysis: Palin's Words May Backfire on McCain
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 5, 2008
Filed at 11:46 a.m. ET
Bringing up Wright would contradict McCain's promise that Obama's former pastor is was off-limits. McCain, the victim himself of racially-tinged smear campaign in 2000, has promised a new kind of politics.
It should be "is" not "is was".
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 5, 2008
Filed at 11:46 a.m. ET
Bringing up Wright would contradict McCain's promise that Obama's former pastor is was off-limits. McCain, the victim himself of racially-tinged smear campaign in 2000, has promised a new kind of politics.
It should be "is" not "is was".
Copy Edit the World #7
This is sooo silly! I didn't actually take this photograph but I did see it for myself, as I have a friend who actually lives on this corner. It should be "California" not "Califorina"!! This is in Berkeley too, which thinks of itself as sooo intellectual.
Soft Broadcast Lead
SOMETHING SQUIRRELY THIS WAY COMES
(30 Seconds)
47-THOUSAND RAIL COMMUTERS FOUND THEMSELVES UP A TREE AND STUCK... IN MANHATTAN... WHEN A SQUIRREL CLIMBED ONTO THE METRO-NORTH COMMUTER RAILROAD POWER LINES EARLIER TODAY.
THE SMALL MAMMAL CAUSED A BIG ELECTRICAL POWER SURGE...WHICH RESULTED IN A WIRE GETTING DRAGGED UNDER A PASSING TRAIN...WHICH CONSEQUENTLY TORE DOWN ALL OF THE LINES...AND CAUSED HOURS OF DELAYS.
AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT SCAMPERING SQUIRREL? THE NOT SO RESILIENT RODENT WAS LITERALLY ELECTRIFIED BY THE POWER SURGE.
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(30 Seconds)
47-THOUSAND RAIL COMMUTERS FOUND THEMSELVES UP A TREE AND STUCK... IN MANHATTAN... WHEN A SQUIRREL CLIMBED ONTO THE METRO-NORTH COMMUTER RAILROAD POWER LINES EARLIER TODAY.
THE SMALL MAMMAL CAUSED A BIG ELECTRICAL POWER SURGE...WHICH RESULTED IN A WIRE GETTING DRAGGED UNDER A PASSING TRAIN...WHICH CONSEQUENTLY TORE DOWN ALL OF THE LINES...AND CAUSED HOURS OF DELAYS.
AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT SCAMPERING SQUIRREL? THE NOT SO RESILIENT RODENT WAS LITERALLY ELECTRIFIED BY THE POWER SURGE.
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Overwhelmed much?
A WARNING:
So...who reads this blog anyway? My journalism professor, maybe some other student(s), my partner (okay only the one time when I demanded that he see for himself how damn funny I am in blog form!), and apparently some guy with ties to the aviation industry. So, with that said, read this at your own discretion, it is a very self-involved post. Writing all of this down just makes me feel so much damn better!
The idiom "when it rains, it pours" is my mantra, no really. I know a lot of people exaggerate when it comes to this expression, but I believe that it truly applies to my life. Case in point:
Events in my life the past two weeks in no particular order:
1. Studied for and took the GRE
2. Same week had two exams and one quiz
3. Found out I might have cancer
4. Had a biopsy for said maybe cancer (worst experience of my life so far)
6. Waited over two weeks for the results!!
7. Had phone interviews with potential professors for PhD programs
8. Campaigning for 'No on 8'
9. Flying to Nevada to campaign for Obama through election day
10. Power went out three times in two days!!
11. In a completely unrelated event, Internet was turned off for an entire day right after the power came back on!
If anyone is still reading at this point, you know what? It sure ain't that bad when I write it all out...no really, I'm not being facetious! And it ain't all bad of course! Many exiting things happening!
Also I must say that it sure beats last year at this time when my 60-year-old mother was shipped off to Iraq, my 60-something father got in a car accident and then became ill later that same month, and I was in over my head with school work. I'm sure there was more but then I just start to look pathetic.
Oh yeah, and I don't have cancer! Probably an important follow-up statement.
So...who reads this blog anyway? My journalism professor, maybe some other student(s), my partner (okay only the one time when I demanded that he see for himself how damn funny I am in blog form!), and apparently some guy with ties to the aviation industry. So, with that said, read this at your own discretion, it is a very self-involved post. Writing all of this down just makes me feel so much damn better!
The idiom "when it rains, it pours" is my mantra, no really. I know a lot of people exaggerate when it comes to this expression, but I believe that it truly applies to my life. Case in point:
Events in my life the past two weeks in no particular order:
1. Studied for and took the GRE
2. Same week had two exams and one quiz
3. Found out I might have cancer
4. Had a biopsy for said maybe cancer (worst experience of my life so far)
6. Waited over two weeks for the results!!
7. Had phone interviews with potential professors for PhD programs
8. Campaigning for 'No on 8'
9. Flying to Nevada to campaign for Obama through election day
10. Power went out three times in two days!!
11. In a completely unrelated event, Internet was turned off for an entire day right after the power came back on!
If anyone is still reading at this point, you know what? It sure ain't that bad when I write it all out...no really, I'm not being facetious! And it ain't all bad of course! Many exiting things happening!
Also I must say that it sure beats last year at this time when my 60-year-old mother was shipped off to Iraq, my 60-something father got in a car accident and then became ill later that same month, and I was in over my head with school work. I'm sure there was more but then I just start to look pathetic.
Oh yeah, and I don't have cancer! Probably an important follow-up statement.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Broadcast News Story:EDITED EDITION!
FOR NIKE...FASTEST JUST DOESN'T CUT IT
60 SECONDS
24-YEAR-OLD ARIEN O'CONNELL, OF NEW YORK CITY IS FAST...SO FAST THAT HER TIME IN THE NIKE WOMEN'S MARATHON ON SUNDAY BEAT ALL 20-THOUSAND COMPETITORS... AND YET....SHE DIDN'T WIN.
O'CONNELL DECLARES THAT SHE HAD THE GREATEST RUN OF HER LIFE... WITH A RUNNING TIME OF TWO-HOURS 55-MINUTES AND 11 -SECONDS...WHICH STILL ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR NIKE.
NIKE IS TELLING O'CONNELL THAT SHE CAN'T BE DECLARED THE WINNER BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T RUN WITH THE ELITE GROUP--WHO WERE GIVEN A 20-MINUTE HEAD START-- AND HAD THE FASTEST TIME A FULL ELEVEN-MINUTES BEHIND O'CONNELL!
RACE PRODUCER, DAN HIRSCH, SAYS THAT O'CONNELL SHOULD HAVE REGISTERED AS AN ELITE RUNNER AND THAT THEY ARE ONLY FOLLOWING THE RULES--THAT ONLY ELITE RUNNERS CAN BE IN COMPETITION FOR A TROPHY.
STILL...O'CONNELL IS NOT BITTER. SHE RAN HER BEST TIME EVER, HAD A GREAT WEEKEND IN SAN FRANSISCO...AND COMES HOME WITH A STORY.
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60 SECONDS
24-YEAR-OLD ARIEN O'CONNELL, OF NEW YORK CITY IS FAST...SO FAST THAT HER TIME IN THE NIKE WOMEN'S MARATHON ON SUNDAY BEAT ALL 20-THOUSAND COMPETITORS... AND YET....SHE DIDN'T WIN.
O'CONNELL DECLARES THAT SHE HAD THE GREATEST RUN OF HER LIFE... WITH A RUNNING TIME OF TWO-HOURS 55-MINUTES AND 11 -SECONDS...WHICH STILL ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR NIKE.
NIKE IS TELLING O'CONNELL THAT SHE CAN'T BE DECLARED THE WINNER BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T RUN WITH THE ELITE GROUP--WHO WERE GIVEN A 20-MINUTE HEAD START-- AND HAD THE FASTEST TIME A FULL ELEVEN-MINUTES BEHIND O'CONNELL!
RACE PRODUCER, DAN HIRSCH, SAYS THAT O'CONNELL SHOULD HAVE REGISTERED AS AN ELITE RUNNER AND THAT THEY ARE ONLY FOLLOWING THE RULES--THAT ONLY ELITE RUNNERS CAN BE IN COMPETITION FOR A TROPHY.
STILL...O'CONNELL IS NOT BITTER. SHE RAN HER BEST TIME EVER, HAD A GREAT WEEKEND IN SAN FRANSISCO...AND COMES HOME WITH A STORY.
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Broadcast Style Exercise: Edited Edition!
NORTHWEST AIRLINES SLASHES PRICES
30 SECONDS
NORTHWEST AIRLINES ANNOUNCED EARLIER TODAY THAT IT IS CUTTING DOMESTIC FARES BY UP TO 40-PERCENT FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
CEO OF NORTHWEST AIRLINES, FRANK DEWITT SAYS... HE LIKES TO THINK OF IT AS A HOLIDAY GIFT TO THEIR CUSTOMERS.
WITH THE DISCOUNTED, NON-REFUNDABLE FARES, A PASSENGER COULD TRAVEL ROUND-TRIP BETWEEN BOSTON AND SAN FRANCISCO FOR 500-DOLLARS ON CERTAIN DAYS.
TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED BY FRIDAY FOR TRAVEL BETWEEN (WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 ) AND (WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14) IN THE LOWER 48-STATES, ALASKA AND CANADA.
DISCOUNTS VARY DEPENDING ON TRAVEL DATES AND ARE NOT AVAILABLE ON CERTAIN POPULAR DAYS.
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30 SECONDS
NORTHWEST AIRLINES ANNOUNCED EARLIER TODAY THAT IT IS CUTTING DOMESTIC FARES BY UP TO 40-PERCENT FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
CEO OF NORTHWEST AIRLINES, FRANK DEWITT SAYS... HE LIKES TO THINK OF IT AS A HOLIDAY GIFT TO THEIR CUSTOMERS.
WITH THE DISCOUNTED, NON-REFUNDABLE FARES, A PASSENGER COULD TRAVEL ROUND-TRIP BETWEEN BOSTON AND SAN FRANCISCO FOR 500-DOLLARS ON CERTAIN DAYS.
TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED BY FRIDAY FOR TRAVEL BETWEEN (WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 ) AND (WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14) IN THE LOWER 48-STATES, ALASKA AND CANADA.
DISCOUNTS VARY DEPENDING ON TRAVEL DATES AND ARE NOT AVAILABLE ON CERTAIN POPULAR DAYS.
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Saturday, October 25, 2008
Copy Edit the World #6
Wow it looks like a lot of people make this "hugh" mistake! I was looking online today for an inkjet cartridge and I found this:
Again, it should be "huge" not "hugh"!
cartridges-plus.com
| Lowest Price Guarantee | 5766 Balcones Drive - Suite 103 - Austin, Texas - 78731 | 512.736.3002 |
Again, it should be "huge" not "hugh"!
Copy Edit the World #5
This was on Piedmont Ave in Oakland. It should say "huge" not "hugh" Although I do have a friend named Hugh who would have been pleased to see this sign. Man, a lot of lazy copy editors living in the Bay Area!
Copy Edit the World #4
This was off of highway 280 in San Francisco. It should be "beautification". How embarrassing!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Top News of the Week Or A Cold and Icy Slide Down, Down, Down
Insert synonyms for the word 'freeze' hereThis was a difficult week, both personally and globally. So I apologize in advance if this post isn't very entertaining.
I decided on Wednesday to make the debate my 'news of the week'. But now that the week is officially over, it is obvious that the presidential debate was not the most important news this week. Yep folks, it's still the economy.
You know that the world is in deep trouble when a very wealthy country suddenly goes belly up! Iceland's financial system completely collapsed this week, not just affecting banks and companies all over the world but entire countries that relied on Icelandic banks. Some are even calling this the start of the next World War.
Why is this important? As I stated above, the impact of this economic crash is being felt around the world from the the U.S. to England to Russia. This story has timeliness and currency; Iceland's economy just crashed this week and this is just another disaster in a long trail of economic disasters that has had people in capitalistic societies across the globe in a panic for almost two months. This story has conflict. People are losing homes, jobs, retirement, everything because of this crash. Finally, this story is bizarre. I think most people find it strange and frightening that a rich, Nordic country could just completely collapse.
EXERCISE #2: Reporting with Numbers
1) A local college releases figures showing that its total budget is $120 million. Of that total, $80 million comes from the state, $6 million from student tuition, and the remaining $34 million from fees, grants and gifts.
a) 67% comes from the state, 5% comes from student tuition, and 28% comes from fees, grants and gifts.
b) - Largest amount of funding: The state
- Least amount of funding: Student tuition
c) The largest part of the college's budget comes from the state, while the smallest amount comes from student tuition. Finally, money from fees, grants and gifts makes up a little less than half of the budget.
2) Your editor assigns you to do a story about prison sentences handed down in cases of aggravated assault. He gives you the following figures from an anti-crime group that is lobbying for tougher sentencing guidelines. The cases represent the people convicted for aggravated assault in San Jose in one month in 2006.
a) The average prison term for people convicted of aggravated assault: 22 months
b) The media prison term for people convicted of aggravated assault: 1 year
c) The average figure is the most accurate description of prison terms because it gives one a better picture of the outside values, in this example, 8 months and 7 years, while the median does not.
3) The state legislature is considering exempting restaurant food sales from the sales tax in the same way grocery sales are exempt.
a) California sales tax: 7.25%
b) If the state legislature decides to exempt restaurant food sales from the sales tax then a person who spends $5 a week on one restaurant meal would save about $18.85 a year. This is because there are about 52 weeks in a year, so times that by $5 and you spend $260 per year.
c) They would save around $75.40 per year.
a) 67% comes from the state, 5% comes from student tuition, and 28% comes from fees, grants and gifts.
b) - Largest amount of funding: The state
- Least amount of funding: Student tuition
c) The largest part of the college's budget comes from the state, while the smallest amount comes from student tuition. Finally, money from fees, grants and gifts makes up a little less than half of the budget.
2) Your editor assigns you to do a story about prison sentences handed down in cases of aggravated assault. He gives you the following figures from an anti-crime group that is lobbying for tougher sentencing guidelines. The cases represent the people convicted for aggravated assault in San Jose in one month in 2006.
a) The average prison term for people convicted of aggravated assault: 22 months
b) The media prison term for people convicted of aggravated assault: 1 year
c) The average figure is the most accurate description of prison terms because it gives one a better picture of the outside values, in this example, 8 months and 7 years, while the median does not.
3) The state legislature is considering exempting restaurant food sales from the sales tax in the same way grocery sales are exempt.
a) California sales tax: 7.25%
b) If the state legislature decides to exempt restaurant food sales from the sales tax then a person who spends $5 a week on one restaurant meal would save about $18.85 a year. This is because there are about 52 weeks in a year, so times that by $5 and you spend $260 per year.
c) They would save around $75.40 per year.
AP Style Exercise (S-Z), v. 2
15 errors / 15 points / 1 bonus point
Please identify and correct the AP style and other errors in the following sentences.
1) When he heard the building plan for the new high school had been rejected, Bill pulled out his stationery to write a letter of protest. (2)
2) Ben really knows his Scriptures, but he knows little about the Talmud or the Shariah. (3)
3) Her home in upstate New York is surprisingly ultramodern and quite different from the other homes in her middle-class neighborhood. (4)
4) To celebrate Veterans Day, the anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I, troops of former soldiers will march down Main Street carrying U.S. flags. (3)
5) Word-of-mouth has it that Ellen will wind up with the only “A” in the class. (2)
6) When Sara spotted the Louis L’Amour paperback, she asked whose book it was. She couldn’t believe it was John's; after all, nobody reads Westerns anymore. She had no idea he was such a weirdo. (3)
BONUS:
• The man was arrested for brandishing a 12-gauge shotgun outside his home. (1)
Please identify and correct the AP style and other errors in the following sentences.
1) When he heard the building plan for the new high school had been rejected, Bill pulled out his stationery to write a letter of protest. (2)
2) Ben really knows his Scriptures, but he knows little about the Talmud or the Shariah. (3)
3) Her home in upstate New York is surprisingly ultramodern and quite different from the other homes in her middle-class neighborhood. (4)
4) To celebrate Veterans Day, the anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I, troops of former soldiers will march down Main Street carrying U.S. flags. (3)
5) Word-of-mouth has it that Ellen will wind up with the only “A” in the class. (2)
6) When Sara spotted the Louis L’Amour paperback, she asked whose book it was. She couldn’t believe it was John's; after all, nobody reads Westerns anymore. She had no idea he was such a weirdo. (3)
BONUS:
• The man was arrested for brandishing a 12-gauge shotgun outside his home. (1)
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
THAT ONE!
I just wanted to point out, post debate, that I had McCain saying "that other guy, what's his name again?" in a post I wrote a little over a week ago. Wow I was only joking John. Who would've thunk it, that you actually don't know the guy's name?
Sunday, October 5, 2008
AP STYLE EXERCISE (M-R)
Please identify and correct the AP style errors in the following sentences. Post the corrected sentences on your blog.
1) He hopes to make $1 billion dollars by the time he’s 40. Already he figures his net worth is between $2 million and $3 million, depending on current stock prices. (3)
2) Lt. Col. John Carpenter was a Cadet at the U.S. Naval Academy and served in the 7th Fleet. (4)
3) Twenty-one winners were named two days after the 3rd Annual Procrastination Awards Ceremony. (3)
4) It was a one-sided game, and he was a poor loser. After losing the playoff when his ball went out of bounds, he made an off-color remark that could be heard in the stands. (4)
5) Hundreds of people attended Sunday's race to watch 75 top bicyclists pedal across the finish line. (3)
6) Every winter, the Joneses and the Kinneys pore over travel brochures, planning their summer trip together. This year, they’re hoping to go to Panama City. (3)
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Redefining the News
I chose the link http://bloggingheads.tv/ that was posted in the comments section of Ryan Sholin's blog. Because I am an avid reader of the New York Times, I was already aware of this site and have enjoyed watching different bloggers dispute many current topics.
This is what I find most interesting about this site, watching different people with different views discuss critical issues. This to me seems more real than many of the paid pundits on CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC who have a very specific and sometimes phony viewpoint. These TV pundit's 'over the top' behavior mostly seems to help them get 'over the top' ratings, which in turn provides them with 'over the top' salaries. The bloggers on Bloggheads.tv seem to be more interested in really discussing the issues and come from a wide range of backgrounds, not just white, male and upper middle class.
I do think that sites like Bloggingheads.tv hold promise for online journalism because of this willingness to display so many points of view. The Bloggingheads folks call themselves the 'classic expression of the Internet', but espouse on their About page that,
'...We hope to be in one sense an unusual expression of the Internet. Almost all blogs have a dominant ideology and a fairly homogeneous comments section to match. We pride ourselves on having a diversity of views in our diavlogs and an accordingly diverse comments section, where thoughtful disagreement is expressed in civil terms (OK, usually thoughtful, and usually civil).'
This is journalism that, as Ryan Sholin puts it on his Inventing Journalism page, serves the community, brings disparate facts together to form a larger, clearer picture and tells necessary stories that otherwise vanish into obscurity.
This is the direction that not just online journalism but journalism as a whole should be going and hopefully with sites like bloggingheads.tv, will continue to go.
This is what I find most interesting about this site, watching different people with different views discuss critical issues. This to me seems more real than many of the paid pundits on CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC who have a very specific and sometimes phony viewpoint. These TV pundit's 'over the top' behavior mostly seems to help them get 'over the top' ratings, which in turn provides them with 'over the top' salaries. The bloggers on Bloggheads.tv seem to be more interested in really discussing the issues and come from a wide range of backgrounds, not just white, male and upper middle class.
I do think that sites like Bloggingheads.tv hold promise for online journalism because of this willingness to display so many points of view. The Bloggingheads folks call themselves the 'classic expression of the Internet', but espouse on their About page that,
'...We hope to be in one sense an unusual expression of the Internet. Almost all blogs have a dominant ideology and a fairly homogeneous comments section to match. We pride ourselves on having a diversity of views in our diavlogs and an accordingly diverse comments section, where thoughtful disagreement is expressed in civil terms (OK, usually thoughtful, and usually civil).'
This is journalism that, as Ryan Sholin puts it on his Inventing Journalism page, serves the community, brings disparate facts together to form a larger, clearer picture and tells necessary stories that otherwise vanish into obscurity.
This is the direction that not just online journalism but journalism as a whole should be going and hopefully with sites like bloggingheads.tv, will continue to go.
Friday, October 3, 2008
New Story #5 Runaway Truck
A runaway truck slammed into an El Cerrito home yesterday, burning it down in the process. The accident also damaged several vehicles and knocked out power in El Cerrito and some neighboring cities.
The accident transpired when an asphalt truck ran out of control, leaving a path of crushed vehicles and a snapped power pole in its wake. According to witness Ruben Sharma, who lives on Moeser Lane across the street from the single-story home that was burnt to rubble, the crash occurred around 1:30 p.m. “First, I thought it was a major earthquake. This is unbelievable", Sharma said as he stood in his front yard that was cluttered with bricks, car parts, glass and other debris from the accident.
El Cerrito police Detective Sgt. Shawn Maples, who was one of the first rescue workers on the scene, immediately heard cries coming from both the house and the truck. After digging through the burning wreckage, he spotted the driver stuck between the wheels of the truck and unable to move, his legs crippled by the over turned truck. Maples seized the drivers hand and with the help of Police Chief Scott Kirkland and Detective Ken Zinc, was able to pull him to safety. Maples said, “We dragged him out in a heartbeat while the truck went up in flames. I just wanted to get him out of there.”
The truck also hit a Honda sedan, the force folding it like an accordion and trapping the driver inside. Rescue workers moved quickly, severing the roof and peeling it back like a can of tuna, freeing the driver in the process. Two other vehicles were also hit by the truck, but no other injuries were reported.
The accident transpired when an asphalt truck ran out of control, leaving a path of crushed vehicles and a snapped power pole in its wake. According to witness Ruben Sharma, who lives on Moeser Lane across the street from the single-story home that was burnt to rubble, the crash occurred around 1:30 p.m. “First, I thought it was a major earthquake. This is unbelievable", Sharma said as he stood in his front yard that was cluttered with bricks, car parts, glass and other debris from the accident.
El Cerrito police Detective Sgt. Shawn Maples, who was one of the first rescue workers on the scene, immediately heard cries coming from both the house and the truck. After digging through the burning wreckage, he spotted the driver stuck between the wheels of the truck and unable to move, his legs crippled by the over turned truck. Maples seized the drivers hand and with the help of Police Chief Scott Kirkland and Detective Ken Zinc, was able to pull him to safety. Maples said, “We dragged him out in a heartbeat while the truck went up in flames. I just wanted to get him out of there.”
The truck also hit a Honda sedan, the force folding it like an accordion and trapping the driver inside. Rescue workers moved quickly, severing the roof and peeling it back like a can of tuna, freeing the driver in the process. Two other vehicles were also hit by the truck, but no other injuries were reported.
The driver of the runaway truck broke both of his legs and is listed in serious but stable condition at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.
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