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murielm99

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2. I will never forget this fire.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Dec 1, 2022, 03:24 PM

Dec 2022

I knew a couple of girls who survived it.

It did change fire safety in schools. There were no more open stairways. By the time I was a junior in high school, all that had changed.

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On Monday, December 1, 1958, a fire broke out at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2022 OP

I remember this. I was only 10 nt yellowdogintexas Dec 2022 #1

I will never forget this fire. murielm99 Dec 2022 #2