A space heater was being used in an apartment on the second floor. Because of the conditions, what we would call quite cluttered, in that apartment -- there were a lot of paper, materials, fabric -- that provided the fire a lot of fuel to burn. |
Fire investigators will go in after it's determined safe to go in. And it may be that they never go in to investigate. We've had situations like this before where the building is so unsafe that we're not going to put a fire investigator in there to get hurt. |
It appears to be a deliberate attempt to make people think it was a real device. It was made to look like the real thing. |
It was found to be a hoax device. |
One firefighter carried one little boy down through the interior stairway and the other boy was taken out of a window and taken down to the ground by ladder. |
Someone tried to make this look like a real bomb. |
The space heater was running, but the wiring failed, shorted and caught the material on fire. |
There was a great volume of fire in the third-floor apartment. |
They couldn't count the number of calls. They were swamped. |
They're like taking turns kicking. |
Unfortunately they were pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly after they were rescued. |
We are doing the best we can with what we have. So our challenge is to get to that level and we will get there. It's going to take some time because we need to identify funding sources. |
We do have a struggle when historic preservation is involved. |