25 April 2006

Chernobyl hero remembers the men who saved Europe.

Times Online

20 years on, the first firefighter at the scene says the human cost is being whitewashed.

IT WAS 1.40am when Viktor Birkun woke to the sound of his doorbell ringing.

He knew that something serious had happened as soon as he opened the door and saw one of his colleagues from the fire station. But it was only as they drove out of his home town of Pripyat, Ukraine, that he realised the scale of what is still considered the worst man-made disaster in history.

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