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After 2 firemen die, city, neighbors point fingers

YOU COULD feel it, lurking there in the charred, smoldering remains of the Thomas W. Buck Hosiery building, mixed in with the bricks and ashes and the blood of firemen.

Holding the helmet of a fallen firefighter, a battalion chief (left) works along with rescue personnel to move the victim to a waiting medic unit at the fatal 5-alarm blaze in East Kensington. (Alejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer)
Holding the helmet of a fallen firefighter, a battalion chief (left) works along with rescue personnel to move the victim to a waiting medic unit at the fatal 5-alarm blaze in East Kensington. (Alejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer)Read more