Essential but Excluded [themarshallproject.org]

Alison Cebulla 12/15/211:14 PM

By Julia Preston and Ariel Goodman, Photo: Jodi Hilton/The Marshall Project, The Marshall Project, December 15, 2021

One tenant saw an amber glow flickering through her bedroom window. Another, awakened just after midnight by frantic shouts, put his hand on the wall and felt heat.

The side of their apartment building was engulfed in flames. They seized their children and fled down darkened stairways.

“There was so much smoke we felt like we were drowning,” tenant Lucia Mateo Pérez recounted. Within minutes, the room where her toddler son had slept became a furnace.

As the fire feasted on the clapboard siding of the old rooming house, it leapt to the building next door, devouring the roof. A general alarm summoned every fire station to the fight in New Bedford, a seaside city on the south coast of Massachusetts.

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