![]() All have since died, among the first of the 31 people who have died as a result of the accident. There were at least six firemen on the roof working under Colonel Telyatnikov. ''These were the people that died later,'' he said. ![]() 4 reactor had exploded and was spewing out radiation, he said, ''It became clear we did not have enough manpower because little by little people were weakening.'' While he was working to put out the fire on a roof near the gaping hole where the shattered No. It was the early stages of the world's worst nuclear-power disaster. Telyatnikov was talking matter-of-factly about the night of April 26, 1986, when he was called from his bed in the town of Pripyat and sent to the fire at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear plant. Sitting in a hall of the firefighters' museum here, Lieut. But we saw lots of flames - that was our main job. ![]() ''We were told there was a high level of radiation.
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