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<span style="font-weight: bold">Later Tuesday, Audrey Bean, 19, of Philadelphia, strummed a ukulele.</span> "I was living in there with them for a few weeks," she said.
..Park and Bean were among a small group of young people in worn clothing, their hands and faces dirty. They piled into a beat-up van and drove away shortly before dusk near the burned remains of the building. There they left what they called an altar: A collection of beer cans, candles, a stuffed dog, and a sign with the words "hungry and homeless" in the middle of it all.
Capt. Edwin Holmes said it was among the deadliest fires in the modern history of the New Orleans Fire Department, and the worst since 32 died in a fire at a French Quarter lounge in 1973.
..Park and Bean were among a small group of young people in worn clothing, their hands and faces dirty. They piled into a beat-up van and drove away shortly before dusk near the burned remains of the building. There they left what they called an altar: A collection of beer cans, candles, a stuffed dog, and a sign with the words "hungry and homeless" in the middle of it all.
Capt. Edwin Holmes said it was among the deadliest fires in the modern history of the New Orleans Fire Department, and the worst since 32 died in a fire at a French Quarter lounge in 1973.