The Nation - News from May 26, 1985
Bulldozers began demolishing the remains of the 61 Philadelphia homes destroyed by fire during a police battle with the radical group MOVE, preparing the ground for city-financed reconstruction. As the machinery knocked down walls and removed debris, some of the 270 persons left homeless by the May 13 blaze returned to the rubble of their homes to look for belongings or take photographs. The fire broke out after police, sent to a fortified row house to evict the armed radicals, dropped a bomb on the home’s rooftop bunker.
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