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WORCESTER The smoke was coming through a closet door at the back of his second floor apartment on Jaques Avenue when Luchaine Whyte first noticed it at around 7:15 p.m.
He told his husband and they called their landlady, whom they affectionately refer to as Miss Lorraine. She wondered if it was a smell from someone smoking.
But within minutes, the smoke was getting thicker. Whyte opened the door to check and knew they had to leave.
He was barefoot and in long Johns as he made his way down the stairs without the leg brace he uses to walk. His husband, Rudy Griffin-Whyte, ran upstairs to warn Lorraine Adams and her husband.
The fire that broke out at a triple-decker in Worcester, Massachusetts, and spread to a second building Friday night, killing two people, has now claimed the life of a third person. And family members tell us all of the victims were related. Worcester firefighters responded around 7:30 p.m. Friday to 11 and 13 Jaques Avenue for two triple-deckers on fire.