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Fond memories mix with painful questions

Dennis Duggan

Dennis Duggan Dennis Duggan

Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday

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More than a year later, the exact cause of death of Joan

Sclafani's firefighter son is still a mystery.

Richard Sclafani, a strapping man of 37, died in the basement of an East

New York house trying to rescue children from a fire. But his mother says the

Fire Department isn't sure what, exactly, caused his death, according to a memo

received by the family six months...

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