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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 3, 1992
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Wednesday, June 3,1992
Detroithousefirekills10
Early morning inferno strikes home for disabled,called worst fire in thirtyyears
The Associated Press
DETROIT—A fire roared through a boarding house early today, killing 10 people, many of them handicapped, and seriously injuring two others, authorities said.
The blaze broke out about 2:30 a.m. and gutted the three-story brick building. It was extinguished about three hours later, fire officials said.
Sixteen people were believed to have been inside the house, called New Way Development, Fire Chief Harold Watkins said. He said four of them escaped without injury and two others, a man and a woman, were hospitalized in serious condition.
The 10 other residents were found dead inside, most were in their rooms, Watkins said. Many of the residents were physically or mentally handicapped,
"I had been asleep when they said, 'it's a fire, it'a fire,'" said Willis Darnell, one of the residents who escaped. "I couldn't walk. I fell down the stairs."
authoritiessaid.
"I grabbed my blanket and put it over my head and I got out. I walked fast," said Delores Strempeck, 60, another resident.
Watkins said it was the most deaths in a single fire in the more than 30 years he had been on the Detroit force. The cause of the blaze was unknown, the chief said.
Caretaker Tyree Fluckes, 37, said he heard a fire alarm and he and a resident, Glenn Gregory, tried to wake up the other residents, knocking on their doors. But the smoke got so thick that he and Gregory finally had to flee, he said.
"Those people were like family to us," Fluckes said.
Fluckes said the fire started in the kitchen. Wat-kins said he could not confirm that.
Janie Nelson, 69, who with her husband, Robert,
has owned the home for 33 years, said the house
undergoes annual city inspection and licensing.
"Some of them have been there 27 years," she said.
"It's terrible."
Nelson said she was on her way to the site. Her husband is recovering from a stroke and unable to go.
Chuck Peller of the state Department of Social Services in Lansing said the home had at one time been licensed for hairdiacapped care but bad lost its license. He said he could not immediately provide details.
Nelson said residents left homeless in the fire would go to an emergency shelter she and her husband run across the street.
Four women and six men, ranging in age from mid-40s to an 89-year-old, were killed, Watkins said.
The home is in Detroit's New Center area on the city west side.
At dawn, the building was still standing, with little sign from the outside that 10 people had died there. Smoke damage was visible around the windows.
Diana Leone, nursing supervisor at Henry Ford Hospital, said the injured man and woman suffered from smoke inhalation.
Fighting breaks out between Serbia and Bosnia as another Yugoslavian cease-fire disintegrates
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Residents of SARqevo rushed to cellars yesterday as Serb-led forces clashed with Muslim Slavs, making a mockery of yet another cease-fire in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Serbia, despite the defiance of its president, began to feel the pinch of UN sanctions imposed last week over its involvement in the war in neighbouring Bosnia. Serbia said it was halting foreign debt payments.
Artillery shells raned on Sarajevo Monday night and yesterday from Serb positions overlooking the embattled Bosnian capital. Muslims and Serbs fought on the city's west side.
nearby Bosnian border.
AUN-sponsored cease fire in Sarajevo, one in a long serries ignored in newly independent Bosnia, was to begin late Monday afternoon.
Fighting also was reported yesterday around the medieval Croatian port of Dubrovnik, where Croat and Serb artillery traded fire across the
Bosnia's Muslim-dominated government said two Yugoslav warplanes attacked the area around the central Bosnian town of Tuzla Monday. No details were given.
Since Bosnia's majority Muslims and Croats voted overwhelmingly for independence on Feb. 29, more than 2,200 people have been killed in fighting between them and Serb irregulars backed by the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army.
Serbas have seized about two-thirds of Bosnia in the fighting.
The United Nations blame Serbia and its small ally, Montenegro, for the war. The world body imposed tough sanctions Saturday on the two states, which formed the new truncated Yugoslavia after Bosnia, Slovenia, Croatia and Madenia each broke away.
But Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, the dominant politician in Yugoslavia, spoke defiantly.
Milosevic told Belgrade radio that
parliamentary elections Sunday represented a victory over enemies at home and abroad. The opposition boycotted the elections and international observers disregarded them.
The only candidates were from Milosevic's Socialist Party — former Communists — and allied ultra-nationalist and Communist groups.
In Montenegro. Communists reportedly edyed won overwhelmingly. Results in Serbia were expected yesterday.
A coalition of opposition parties in Serbia yesterday described the international sanctions as "Serbia's worst defeat in history."
"We view with deep concern, anguish and bitterness the position into which the current regime has forced the Serbian people and the Serbian state through its irrational policies" the opposition said.
In Belgrade, Serbia's capital, drivers lined up their cars for mules overnight to wait for gasoline. Gasoline prices doubled at midnight.
The newspaper Politika, consid.
drew close to Milosevic's government, said Yugoslavia would stop repaying its estimated $8 billion foreign debt because of the sanctions.
Potiika said Yugoslavia had the resources to survive for 18 months. The sanctions banned trade, froze Yugoslavia's foreign assets and imposed an oil embargo.
Serbian Premier Radoman Bozovic told reporters today that Serbia had increased its domestic oil production to meet a third of its needs, up from a fifth. He said Serbia had taken other steps to prepare for the sanctions but did not elaborate.
At the United Nations in New York, Bosnia's U.N. envoy said at a news conference Monday that the world must act swiftly to deliver humanitarian aid to his people.
"It is realistic to expect those hudied in bunkers and running out of food and water in Bosnia to wait until the Serbians and Montenegren runs out of gasoline," said Ambassador Mohamed Sacirby.
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