Two Police Officers are silhouetted as they watch
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church burn.
 

See photos of the fire that destroyed a city block
and the ruins left behind.

On this day a fire was lit in an apartment building by two juvenile boys. The fire grew and spread out of control and destroyed numerous apartment buildings, the Loretto House (a home for homeless men), Kates Kitchen (a place for needy to get food),  and the Perpetual Help Church which was built in 1923. The fire also damaged Perpetual Help School.
It took the efforts of about 10 city and town fire departments to extinguish the firestorm.
 

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Photos taken during the fire were taken by  Union News photographers
Photos after the fire were taken by J. Joniec

Counter set  09/14/1999

joniec@javanet.com