Talk:Our Lady of the Angels School Fire

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[edit] Life Magazine Cover

It appears that the section about the Life Magazine cover is wrong. The article states that the December 15, 1958 cover shows the firefighter carrying out a dead victim, however a cover search at Life.com reveals this: http://www.life.com/Life/cover_search/view?coverkeyword=&startMonth=12&startYear=1958&endMonth=12&endYear=1958&pageNumber=1&indexNumber=2 ...which is most definitely not the image described. Maybe I'm missing something here, so if the article is wrong, then correct it; otherwise, please show some evidence of the cover described for interested parties. Correction has been made by DennisJOBrien@yahoo.com on September 3, 2007, as the photo is indeed on an inside article within the magazine rather than on the cover itself.

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In December 1,1958 fire broke out in a stairway in the Our Lady of the Angels School.♠

This article needs a narrative description to go along with the diagrams. --Metropolitan90 08:23, July 19, 2005 (UTC) These drawings appear to have been taken from http://www.olafire.com/FireStages.asp?S=2.

New narrative description added February 15, 2006 by DennisJOBrien@yahoo.com, as well many successive general improvements of the entire article. All facts cited aretaken from the two books on the subject and summarized from the OLA official website.

• The cover seen on the OLA website clearly states December 15, 1958. Maybe it is a special about the disaster? WhisperToMe 04:08, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Explanation of the images

I strongly suggest someone get permission or independantly recreate the explanations for the diagrams. By themselves they aren't the most interpretable, or look (like the last one) like someone scrawled on them... Thanx... 68.39.174.238 00:27, 1 April 2006 (UTC).

On November 22, 2006, I added references in the text of the article that pertain to the six diagram images of the "progression of the fire." I believe these are correctly situated, as I have a good understanding of the history of this fire and how it spread throughout the building. From DennisJOBrien@yahoo.com.

Charter School ==

The charter school Nuestra America closed in 2002, anyone know if the former Our Lady of the Angels school building is being used currently? If so, what as-- a school, apartments, something else? Jaguara 16:17, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

I e-mailed Eric Morgan, olafire.com's webmaster, asking if the school building was currently in use. Mr. Morgan informed me that it was currently leased by Galapagos Elementary Charter School. Jaguara 19:37, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

It seems that a bit more can be gleaned about GECS by going here. Does the address check out? Renaissance 2010 Carptrash 20:22, 30 October 2006 (UTC) - they seem to have different addresses, but be on the same block, so it could be the " a rose by any other name" syndrome. Carptrash 20:32, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I have photographs of the area that I took in September 2006. Most were taken inside the church but some show the outside of the school, the convent, the area around it, etc. I have one photo that shows a canopy with the name of the Galapagos Charter School. (Funambules 6 December 2007).

Funambules (talk) 16:41, 6 December 2007 (UTC)