“g utted an eight-story resort hotel Saturday , killing four tourists and injuring 46 others, including guests who leaped from upper-story windows to escape the flames. No American s were killed, but two were reported injured, including an Ohio woman who jumped from a fourth-floor window. The blaze swept through the 200-room Park Hotel in Netanya, a Mediterranean resort city about 20 miles north of Tel Aviv. About 20 Americans escaped from the fire, an American Embassy official said, includin g ...a tour group of 17 who arrived in Israel a week ago from Columbus, Ohio. According to a state radio report, the Park's management had recently considered closin g the building after receiving threats from protection racketeers who had failed to extort payments from the hotel's owners. Firemen extinguished the flames after a seven-hour battle. In a six-column picture on the news-photo page of the Free Press, several elderly tourists who had escaped the fire were gathered in a group on the street, holding blankets around hunched shoulders.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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