Corey Sciuto: Fire - February 8, 1979

At the time, the building was planned to be part of the new National Historical Park, and if I've learnt anything about fires in buildings with wooden structural members, had this fire happened on a lower floor, ... old factories that we are putting our lives at great risk, living in buildings with old, dry wooden floors, soaked with decades into over a century of machine oil and other flammables - many dating to the city's foray into the shoe manufacturing industry. ...