Philly Health Commissioner Ousted Over Handling of MOVE Victims' Remains

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9. As a born, raised and still living here in Philly resident, I actually touched on it here --

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2743044

This was unfortunately one of those "Be careful what you wish for..." situations that went horribly horribly wrong. The Fire Commissioner at the time (William Richmond) and Police Commissioner (Gregore Sambor) were fucking disgraces.

The claim was that they were being shot at so they refused to fight the fire. I can't see why they couldn't have attached a hose to a ladder and extended it towards the burning houses (they have special equipment with water pipes that are made for that application). If anything, they also had equipment that helped to battle all the refinery fires just a decade earlier, and more often, the many warehouse fires that required towering ladders fitted with a hose to reach the roofs of those large structures, and were often operated from some distance away from the structures.

In fact, there had been a huge 9-alarm fire at and within buildings surrounding the large Gallery Mall downtown here just a year before in 1984 -





With a new investigation now begun and lawyers from the Africa family involved with the investigations and discussions (finally), we can start to bring some kind of closure to this, just one of many, heinous periods in Philadelphia history.