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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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