“All money raised stays here. ... Nothing leaves the Mahoning Valley.”

“All money raised stays here. ... Nothing leaves the Mahoning Valley.”

Bob Hannon. president and chief professional officer of the United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, on the funds raised though the United Way’s 2010 Day of Caring on Friday.

“And then you heard this bang. And everything shook except the floor, so we knew it wasn’t an earthquake. I feel helpless that I can’t do anything. I just gotta sit by and watch.”

Jane Porcelli, 62, describing the massive gas-line explosion that sent flames roaring through a neighborhood in the hills south of San Francisco, which destroyed more than 50 homes and left at least one person dead.

“I heard the gunfire, and I ran. As I was running down the steps, they were yelling, ‘Oh, my God, there’s three people shot!’”

Andy Ryan, a dough mixer who was on the third floor of the Kraft Foods Inc. plant in Philadelphia when a recently suspended colleague opened fire, killing two people and critically injuring a third before being taken into custody.