Fighting Fire! by Michael L. Cooper

Author:Michael L. Cooper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

The Asch Building was one of the new “fireproof” buildings. [Kheel Center, Cornell University]

Some workers who couldn’t squeeze into an elevator jumped onto the descending car’s roof or tried to slide down its cables. “I reached out, grabbed the cables, wrapped my legs around them and started to slide down,” recalled Samuel Levine, a ninth-floor sewing machine operator. “I can remember getting to the sixth floor. While on my way down, as slow as I could let myself drop, the bodies of six girls went past me. One of them struck me and I fell to the top of the elevator. I fell on the dead body of a girl.” Firefighters later found 19 bodies atop the two elevators.

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