“If we could have saved him, we would have saved him,” Deputy Fire Chief Martin Dyer said Monday.
“We had a ladder up to the third floor looking through the windows,” Dyer said. “We had crews trying to make it into the third floor and we were fighting exterior fire and interior fire in two, three-deckers.”
The other victims were identified by authorities as Edna Mae Williams, 85, and her son, Gerald Prince, 61. They were found inside. Adams Sr. was Williams’ son-in-law.
The home had working fire alarms, but not as many as fire officials would have liked to see, Dyer said.