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Frustrated tenants take action one month after Fort Worth apartment fire
One month after a six-alarm fire ripped through The Cooper Apartments in Fort Worth, tenants on Wednesday began taking matters into their own hands. Some residents entered the building and tossed belongings from a second-floor balcony. "It has been awfully frustrating," said Parker Perego. "I spent a month living in my parents' guestroom until I finally was able to find a new place in. Now that I have a new place, I don't have much of anything to put in it because it's all locked upstairs." Antonio Busby was one of at least two dozen tenants who protested outside the complex Wednesday, hoping to get answers from the Cooper management team about when they would be allowed to recover their belongings. The fire displaced more than 800 tenants, including Busby. "I feel like it's unacceptable," Busby said. "I feel like they're more concerned with their own liability before the well-being of their own tenants." Tenant Miriam Zarza is still missing her three pets that were inside the building when the fire happened. "Like I'm devastated. I don't want kids. These were my kids. These were my only babies. I've been having them since they were born. It's just a very heartbreaking experience," said Zarza. After 30 days of tenant demands, the management team finally provided some answers. In a statement to CBS News Texas, a spokesperson said that starting Monday, they will "begin reaching out to each resident individually to discuss next steps relative to their personal belongings." "That's very surprising. It seems like they're trying to make a good face for show rather than getting with the residents and letting them know what the timeline is," said Busby. "So, that's pretty shocking to me. I'm glad to hear it, but I wish it had come from the rental property and the Light Bulb Capital Group rather than coming from you right now." The Cooper management team added that, given the size of the community, the process will take time, but they will provide tenants with regular updates. While Zarza said the news of being allowed back inside her apartment provides some relief, it doesn't bring back her pets or ease the frustration she and others have felt over the past month. "I'll believe it when I see it. They've been saying that since the week of the fire, and we have not gotten updates," Zarza said. "So honestly, I'll just believe it when I see it."
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House fire in San Jose spreads to second home
San Jose Fire crews responded to a three-alarm fire that spread to a second home on Wednesday afternoon. The fire started at a single-story, single-family home on the 3300 block of Gavota Avenue around 2:30 p.m.. It then spread to a second house, the Fire Department said. San Jose Fire said all occupants were out of the first home.
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How a haunting photo of a deadly fire led to changes in Boston's fire escape regulations
Stanley Forman's news photos have gripped Boston for decades. Now 80 years old, Forman still listens to three police scanners in his truck, hustling for the next big photo. But the image he'll always remember is one he took of a fatal 1975 fire. As the fire was racing through an apartment building, Forman saw a firefighter who had just reached a young woman and a 2-year-old girl trapped on a rickety fifth-story fire escape. Then, the unthinkable happened. "And then it went. Just collapsed. For whatever reason, it collapsed. The fire escape collapsed," Forman told CBS News. "They're falling. There's no doubt they're falling, and the fire escape coming down behind them. I realized two people had fallen to the ground." Forman said it left him shaking. "I just watched something awful, awful happen," he said. "I never had doubts about getting the picture, but I just watched something awful happen." Forman said it still gets to him 50 years later. "I watched death in front of me," he said. A firefighter, Robert O'Neill, dangled with one arm clutching the fire engine's ladder and survived. But the fall killed 19-year-old Diana Bryant. Tiare Jones, Bryant's 2-year-old goddaughter, landed on top of Bryant and lived. Forman's haunting photo of the fall, published worldwide, earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, his first of three Pulitzers. It also woke up the city of Boston. "This is what can happen when fire escapes are neglected and they need to be used during an emergency," Warren Kinder, director of the National Fire Escape Association, told CBS News. He said back in 1975, there were no regulations for inspections. Within months of the fire and Forman's photo being published, Boston changed the city code to require fire escapes to be certified as safe every five years. Kinder said the impact of Forman's photo is "undeniable, and had a ripple effect throughout the country." "This is what can happen when fire escapes are neglected and they need to be used during an emergency," he said. Forman said, "I think it scared people. And it also made them aware. How's my fire escape?"
