than those installed by the Undergri
subway employees had blueprints sho
office that was locked, and none of th
—it took hours to extinguish the flame
When the blaze was finally put out ;
noticed—the toll stood at thirty-one dei
“Why did they send me straight into
the next day from a hospital bed. “
screaming. Why didn’t someone take ch
To answer those questions, consider a fe
upon to function:
Ticketing clerks were warned that tl
tickets, so if they saw a burning tissue, th
their bounds.it the hall :
mis OF Ake trucks arrived. But becat
» connect their hoses to street-level hydr
round inside the station, and because 1
owing the station’s layout—all the plans
the ticketing agents or the station manag
nes.
ut at 1:46 am—six hours after the burning
‘dead and dozens injured.
into the fire?” a twenty-year-old music tea
d. “I could see them burning. I could |