Alan Etter
Alan Etter
appears attempt deliberate people
It appears to be a deliberate attempt to make people think it was a real device. It was made to look like the real thing.
fire great volume
There was a great volume of fire in the third-floor apartment.
caught fire material space wiring
The space heater was running, but the wiring failed, shorted and caught the material on fire.
boy carried ground interior stairway taken window
One firefighter carried one little boy down through the interior stairway and the other boy was taken out of a window and taken down to the ground by ladder.
historic struggle
We do have a struggle when historic preservation is involved.
building determined fire safe situations unsafe
Fire investigators will go in after it's determined safe to go in. And it may be that they never go in to investigate. We've had situations like this before where the building is so unsafe that we're not going to put a fire investigator in there to get hurt.
found hoax
It was found to be a hoax device.
count number
They couldn't count the number of calls. They were swamped.
best challenge funding identify level time
We are doing the best we can with what we have. So our challenge is to get to that level and we will get there. It's going to take some time because we need to identify funding sources.
dead hospital local
Unfortunately they were pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly after they were rescued.
apartment call fabric fire fuel provided quite second space
A space heater was being used in an apartment on the second floor. Because of the conditions, what we would call quite cluttered, in that apartment -- there were a lot of paper, materials, fabric -- that provided the fire a lot of fuel to burn.
tried
Someone tried to make this look like a real bomb.