“It’s getting hot up here. Get the...
“It’s getting hot up here. Get the hell off the floor. . . .”
--Alexander Handy, a 22-year-old building engineer, in his last walkie-talkie radio message to fellow workers before he died in a service elevator during the First Interstate Bank fire.
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