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At
1:00 AM on September 15, 2005, Ms. Estrada was severely injured in a 3
alarm fire that killed three other people. WCP&A reconstructed this
fire and determined that Ms. Estrada first smelled smoke in her 3rd
story walk-up apartment in San Francisco’s Mission district. She
arose to discover that her exit was blocked by fire in both her main
and exit stairways. Her husband was killed by smoke inhallation. Her
daughter burned to death trying to escape down the flaming stairs. And
Ms. Estrada was severely injured after she fell from a third story
window gasping for fresh air before the fire department could arrive.
WCP&A reconstruction demonstrated that the entry fire door failed
prematurely, the smoke detectors in the unit did not function, and the
main fire alarm did not sound.
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