60 years ago this week. The firefighter in the famous photo at 2:35 was John Scheidt. He had 9 kids and died age 81 in 2009. The kid he is carrying, 10-year-old John Jajkowski, was deceased at the scene of the fire.
I remember seeing the film "WHY" when I was a preteen and the emotional impact on me. I have been a proffesional FF in the northeast for the past 31 years and delt with death. My experiences pale in comparison. I cant imagine how any of these guys delt with this. The burdens they carried and how each one of their lives changed forever. Their station life and not to mention their home life. This is something I have thought about often. Can anybody shed some light???
Just heard about this when I was on Pinterest on Find a Grave... saw a little boys name and the reason for his death. I was literally crying just now, tears streaming down as I saw the pics and pain in the parents' faces. Awful. Absolutely awful 🥺 3:10 😭
My cousin,Patricia Diane Kuzma was in that fire. She was 10, in room 212, grade 5. TeacherSister Mary Clare Therese Champagne, BVMFamily Mother: Yolanda (Trifilio) Kuzma Father: Albert Kuzma Sisters: Cynthia Marie and Karen Kuzma Grandparents: Frank Trifilio and Anna Kuzma Very sad.R.I.P. all little angels.
My teachers mom was,in that fire and lost her best friend and she was split with her classmates and people at the new school made fun of her and the other victims by always pulling the fire alarm.😞😢
From what I heard - many parents of the deceased asked for them not to be shown to the public. However you will see some of the victims in those photos in the lower grades.
We have a Grammar school in Bowen , ILL, built just like OLA and it too has been "Grandfathered" in. At my insistance, I pushed for a practice run at the school, for the FD out here. They failed miserably. If it had been a real fire, all of the FF's would have died. 400 children go to that school, and it's a fire trap. Sadly, no one cares about that. I remember OLA, I was 7 yrs. old at the time. I attended HOC.
All I can feel is heartbreak for the ones who lost there lives and so much sorrow for the ones who did make it through that kind of sadness and confusion never goes away the young girl in the black coat with calm shock on her face the crying little boy it's all just terrible and I know on a very small level what they feel like happy because they made it out alive and awful for the ones who didn't
My great grandfather was in that fire he saved 2 kids along with a nun he said that the fire started downstairs and then it maid it’s way up. Then is was in a fire, it was small started in a bathroom of my school didn’t get close to how bad this one was but it’s still is sad😢
I really hate that it takes a tragidy like this for our country to get the act t ogether and change the laws or put up a stop light or something else. I hope non of those lost that day suffered! May they all R. I. P.!
If I was a firefighter that day I will just have to go home and drink alcohol for the rest of my life bot if I was one over 21 I will be like a fish drinking ok poeples
Schools have pics every year. Teachers & students are constantly taking photos of classroom events, recitals, plays, etc. How come the most "recent" OLA class photos to the late 1958 fire are from Spring, 1956??
60 years ago this week. The firefighter in the famous photo at 2:35 was John Scheidt. He had 9 kids and died age 81 in 2009. The kid he is carrying, 10-year-old John Jajkowski, was deceased at the scene of the fire.
I remember seeing the film "WHY" when I was a preteen and the emotional impact on me. I have been a proffesional FF in the northeast for the past 31 years and delt with death. My experiences pale in comparison. I cant imagine how any of these guys delt with this. The burdens they carried and how each one of their lives changed forever. Their station life and not to mention their home life. This is something I have thought about often. Can anybody shed some light???
I can't even imagine how hard it would be to be a firefighter at that place.
Im sure some eventually get used to it, others block it out and others have PTSD =(
Just heard about this when I was on Pinterest on Find a Grave... saw a little boys name and the reason for his death. I was literally crying just now, tears streaming down as I saw the pics and pain in the parents' faces. Awful. Absolutely awful 🥺
3:10 😭
And too the firefighters of that terrible day thank you for what you were able to do and sympathy for what you couldn't 🥂
My cousin,Patricia Diane Kuzma was in that fire. She was 10, in room 212, grade 5. TeacherSister Mary Clare Therese Champagne, BVMFamily Mother: Yolanda (Trifilio) Kuzma
Father: Albert Kuzma
Sisters: Cynthia Marie and Karen Kuzma
Grandparents: Frank Trifilio and Anna Kuzma Very sad.R.I.P. all little angels.
My condolences to you and her family. So so sad
My teachers mom was,in that fire and lost her best friend and she was split with her classmates and people at the new school made fun of her and the other victims by always pulling the fire alarm.😞😢
Omg that's beyond evil
Let those without sin cast the first stone the older I get the more I understand that incredibly intelligent passage 😊
From what I heard - many parents of the deceased asked for them not to be shown to the public. However you will see some of the victims in those photos in the lower grades.
I remember as a kid i would always watch this and then I'd visit them
Back in a day when people clearly cared about one another attending a memorial that took up every seat in church whatever happened to this 🤔
I was just shy of five years old when this happened.
We have a Grammar school in Bowen , ILL, built just like OLA and it too has been "Grandfathered" in.
At my insistance, I pushed for a practice run at the school, for the FD out here. They failed miserably. If it had been a real fire, all of the FF's would have died.
400 children go to that school, and it's a fire trap. Sadly, no one cares about that.
I remember OLA, I was 7 yrs. old at the time. I attended HOC.
Im 8 years late but wow, that is horrible ÷(
All I can feel is heartbreak for the ones who lost there lives and so much sorrow for the ones who did make it through that kind of sadness and confusion never goes away the young girl in the black coat with calm shock on her face the crying little boy it's all just terrible and I know on a very small level what they feel like happy because they made it out alive and awful for the ones who didn't
As a parent omg... the idea, just the mere idea of losing your children, brings a parent to tears. Sad what this world is like.
My great grandfather was in that fire he saved 2 kids along with a nun he said that the fire started downstairs and then it maid it’s way up. Then is was in a fire, it was small started in a bathroom of my school didn’t get close to how bad this one was but it’s still is sad😢
Is the music by Philip Glass? Sounds like his work. If so, what's it from?
What was the name of the boy suspected of lighting the fire?
Philip decker
I really hate that it takes a tragidy like this for our country to get the act t ogether and change the laws or put up a stop light or something else. I hope non of those lost that day suffered! May they all R. I. P.!
If I was a firefighter that day I will just have to go home and drink alcohol for the rest of my life bot if I was one over 21 I will be like a fish drinking ok poeples
Im sure some did =(
Schools have pics every year. Teachers & students are constantly taking photos of classroom events, recitals, plays, etc. How come the most "recent" OLA class photos to the late 1958 fire are from Spring, 1956??
Maybe those got lost in the fire
So much for angels!
I guess God was busy and the angels had the day off.
Whispering Mist ever heard of satan?
Life happens