Philly Health Commissioner Ousted Over Handling of MOVE Victims' Remains

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2. The quibble I have with that little blip

is that the C4 wasn't dropped "at night" but late in the afternoon and then the fires just raged all night and all the next day, jumping from roof to roof, going down rows of houses, including those across the street and a couple blocks back on both sides of the street, where the sparks had jumped to houses along the shared back driveways.

I remember listening to the news reports during the standoff and shootout earlier that day at work, before getting home and then hearing about what started the fire - "something" dropped on what they were calling "the bunker" (a wooden shed-like structure they had built on the roof of the house). All day the next day, me and my co-workers were glued to someone's little hand-held portable TV and were also listening to the radio reports.

The whole thing was a mess leading up to this because the neighbors on that block kept demanding that the city do something about the house where the MOVE members lived and the result was that people died, a neighborhood was destroyed, and the psyche of the city suffered immeasurably. And then decades later when they rebuilt the damaged blocks of houses, there were all kinds of issues with shoddy construction (roof leaks, plumbing issues, mold, etc)... They eventually got a new firm to rebuild and started fixing those problems (after numerous lawsuits) and rehabbed the last of the vacant and uninhabitable "new homes" just last year (there are a handful of the original residents still in the area) -