Joseph V. Murray, fought one of city’s saddest fires, dies at 88 - Chicago’s Our Lady of Angels School fire which left scores of elementary school children dead
It was his old grade school. He knew its hallways, stairs and classrooms as well as he knew the inside of his home.
The firefighter saw mushrooming smoke as he neared the building at Iowa and Avers.
He knew things were very bad.
The 1958 fire killed 92 children and three nuns. Grief settled on Humboldt Park like heavy snow. It seemed that every block had victims who never got a chance to grow up.
John Raymond and others who made it out of the school consider Joe Murray a hero. “He pulled out kids as fast as he could,” said Raymond, who was about 11 at the time. “At first he was grabbing them and putting them behind him, so they could climb down the ladder.”
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