Site of fatal fire to become memorial
From Times Wire Reports
The mayor of Charleston said that the city will buy the site of a fatal furniture store fire and create a park and memorial to the nine firefighters who died in the blaze.
“The land is sacred. It’s where nine people died,” Mayor Joseph P. Riley said.
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