Posted by: |
Tony Guzzi |
On: |
4/29/2004 |
ID: |
174 |
At OLA on 12/1/58? |
Born before or after 12/1/58? |
Where Lived on 12/1/58? |
No |
Before |
1108 N. Central Park, about 6 blocks from the school |
I was only three years old on December 1, 1958, but I believe that day is one of the first recolections of my life. I remember looking out our back door from our first floor flat on Central Park and seeing the thick black smoke. I can then remember my mother on the phone to my grandmother saying 'ma the school is on fire.' I also remember feeling very scared hearing the almost constant whining of fire engines. The girl next door came home from OLA without her coat and I remember my mother and I going out on the back porch and talking to her. Those are about the only recolections that I have of that day, but I can remember them like they were yesterday. My fathers cousin died in the fire and a neighbor , a 13 year old girl who my mother tells me used to come over and play with me was also one of the 92 children that died. I eventually went to OLA in the fall of 1961 and graduated in 1969. I now have two children of my own and I have told them about the OLA fire. They sometimes ask me questions about it. Although I was only three years old at the time, those few recolections have never left my mind. I think about the fire every December 1st. It is a day that I will never forget.
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