|
|
Article: Fire marshal's top task: Get the facts on a blaze
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 14, 1992
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1992 Chicago Sun-Times. (Hide copyright information)
|
Fire broke out early one recent morning in a frame six-flat in
the shadow of the abandoned South Works of the U.S. Steel Corp. on
the South Side. The site is on its way to becoming another vacant
lot in a neighborhood that surely doesn't need another one.
The building's front half is caved in. Massive blackened timbers
- flooring from the top stories - lean against one another, grim
totems to the destructive power of fire. Walls and flooring are
warped from the water used to extinguish the blaze. Firefighters
punched out the windows for ventilation, and a breeze wafts through
the building, cutting the pervasive smoky odor.
Everything that's left is in disarray. On the first floor, in
the ...