A series of fleeting choices and troubling circumstances sent smoke billowing through a Bronx building, leaving 17 people dead and scores of bereaved survivors.
NEW YORK — It started as just another January morning, the damp chill prompting a family on the third floor of a drafty Bronx apartment tower to run a space heater for extra warmth, as residents had done countless times before. In the moment, that decision hardly deserved a second
A series of fleeting choices and troubling circumstances sent smoke billowing through a Bronx building, leaving 17 people dead and scores of bereaved survivors.