where the fire occurred, but they were mounted high off the floor and unreachable by most students Sources: Our Lady of Angels fire memorial; 'To Sleep with the Angels,' by David Cowan and John ...

On Dec. 1, 1958, a fire consumed Our Lady of the Angels grade school on the West ... As Mark stood at that second-floor window, fire to his back, he held a small statue in his hand and waved ...

Friday marked 65 years since the fire at the Our Lady of the Angels Catholic School ... were seriously injured as they jumped from second-floor windows to escape. The remnants of the old school ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- December of this year will mark 64 years since a horrific fire at Our Lady of Angels school that killed ... stairwell and through the second-floor classrooms.

CHICAGO — Sixty-five years ago Friday marks one of the worst school fires in our nation’s history. Our Lady of the Angels ... The fire hadn’t reached the South Wing of the second floor ...

It was about 20 minutes before the end of classes at Our Lady of the Angels School on the ... jumping from the high second floor. The school did not have a fire alarm box so the nearest box ...

CHICAGO — The Chicago School fire that stunned the nation happened 65 years ago Friday. Our Lady of the Angels fire took the ... fire alarms on every floor. It wasn’t just the codes that ...

This was counter to the Chicago Fire ... Our Lady of the Angels School, a two-story, U-shaped building with a brick exterior and wood-lathe and plaster interior, built in 1910. The second floor ...