Alan Etter Quotations

One firefighter carried one little boy down through the interior stairway and the other boy was taken out of a window and taken down to the ground by ladder.

It appears to be a deliberate attempt to make people think it was a real device. It was made to look like the real thing.

We are doing the best we can with what we have. So our challenge is to get to that level and we will get there. It's going to take some time because we need to identify funding sources.

Unfortunately they were pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly after they were rescued.

We do have a struggle when historic preservation is involved.

Fire investigators will go in after it's determined safe to go in. And it may be that they never go in to investigate. We've had situations like this before where the building is so unsafe that we're not going to put a fire investigator in there to get hurt.

There was a great volume of fire in the third-floor apartment.

The space heater was running, but the wiring failed, shorted and caught the material on fire.

Someone tried to make this look like a real bomb.

A space heater was being used in an apartment on the second floor. Because of the conditions, what we would call quite cluttered, in that apartment -- there were a lot of paper, materials, fabric -- that provided the fire a lot of fuel to burn.

It was found to be a hoax device.

They couldn't count the number of calls. They were swamped.