Hempstead fire claims life of another victim
Photo credit: AP | Residents of an apartment damaged during a fire look through some of their burnt belongings outside the building in Hempstead, N.Y. (Feb. 9, 2013)
The fire that roared through a Hempstead apartment complex Saturday, killing an 8-year-old boy and forcing hundreds of residents from adjoining buildings into the bitter cold, claimed another victim Sunday.
Guadalupe Ramirez was pronounced dead at Nassau University Medical Center at 8:25 a.m., Nassau police confirmed. Ramirez lived in the same one-bedroom, third-floor apartment where the fire...
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