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Days after loss two childhood friends in a car shatter, a Wanaka woman has escaped a home fire near Arrowtown - fleeing flames chasing her up the hallway. Harriet Fyfe, 18, raced out of the domicile with her 17-year-old confidant and her friend's male parent. Fyfe woke at 4am yesterday to the scent of smoke, but did not realise it was approach from an electric blanket under her mattress. If I had rolled over and gone back to slumber then, pretty much all of us would be gone, she said. In the mid-1990s, while alive in Wanaka, she had done exactly that - gone back to repose - after smelling sooty vapor from a fire which, she said, almost killed her motherSource bond: http://www.material.co.nz/4297272a10.html

He says he is the male parent of three children 'and I don t see through how many more,' but spends his days together with 'Yohan,' the clique s leader, and two others in a shack furnished with a sole mattress. When not in their home, they patrol the alley armed with pistols and sawed-off shotguns, looking out for competitor gangs and the drugs that they will later put up to sale. They use guerrilla-similar tactics to elude their enemies, well-informed an ambush could lie concealed around any corner. 'This is how we get by, selling,' says Yohan, as he separates puny doses of fissure on the mattress. El Menor has no illusions of anything more good coming his way. 'I was a Disciple of christ and went to place of education,' he said. 'But when I stopped studying everything got messed up and the highway got me,' he said. He says he s well persuaded his time is running out and it seems about every 10 minutes he is snorting more cocaine. 'An unoccupied mind is the deuce s workshop,' he repeatsSource vinculum: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/29/america/LA-GEN-Venezuela-Photo-Pkg-Way-Gangs.php...

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