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After the fire at Boardwalk Apartments October 7, 2005
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Former Boardwalk Apartments resident Eli Greenbaum talks on his cell phone Monday afternoon in his room at The Windsor of Lawrence assisted living center, 3220 Peterson Road. Aside from losing all of his belongings in the fire, Greenbaum suffered multiple fractures to his heels and ankles after jumping from the third floor of the burning building while trying to escape. Greenbaum plans to live at the assisted living center while his injuries heal.
Former Boardwalk Apartments resident Sandara Meyer takes a rest from clipping newspaper articles about the fire at the complex and the case of Jason Allen Rose, who faces murder and arson charges. Meyer, who befriended Rose while living at the apartments, says he pulled her out of the burning building. Meyer lost the majority of her belongings in the fire; she is now living with her daughter, Ginnie Ellis, and will soon be moving into a new apartment with her husband, Ronald Belisle.
A photograph of Jose Gonzalez surrounded by flowers was displayed at a memorial service for the 50-year-old Lawrence resident who died in last Friday's fire at Boardwalk Apartments. Services were Saturday at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church
A photographic memorial of Yolanda Riddle waits outside the Haskell Auditorium during her memorial service Friday evening.
Friends and family members of Yolanda Riddle stand for a prayer service in memory of Riddle, who died in the Boardwalk Apartments fire last week. Riddle, 33, a Lawrence social worker, was honored with memorial speeches from various loved ones.
A tribute to Nicole Bingham, a Kansas University student killed in the Boardwalk Apartments fire, rests by a tree near the rubble of the apartments.
Construction equipment is used to sift through the rubble of the Boardwalk Apartment building that was destroyed in a fire as the investigation continues Tuesday night. Three people were killed in the blaze that broke out Friday morning. Police on Tuesday arrested Jason Rose, 20, in connection with the fire.
A unit from the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives digs through the rubble at the Boardwalk Apartments complex in the 500 block of Fireside Drive. Investigators announced Monday that the bodies of three people reported missing in Friday's fire had all been recovered.
A unit from the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives digs through the rubble of the wreckage at the Boardwalk Apartment complex in the 500 block of Fireside Drive.
ATF Agent Marvin Richardson, left, listens as Interim Fire Chief Mark Bradford gives a press conference at the Boardwalk Apartments. Bradford announced Monday that all three victims reported missing had been accounted for.
Interim Fire Chief Mark Bradford gives a press conference at the Boardwalk Apartments. Bradford announced Monday that all three victims reported missing had been accounted for.
A unit from the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives digs through the rubble of the wreckage at the Boardwalk Apartment complex in the 500 block of Fireside Drive.
A unit from the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives digs through the rubble of the wreckage at the Boardwalk Apartment complex in the 500 block of Fireside Drive.
A unit from the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives digs through the rubble of the wreckage at the Boardwalk Apartment complex in the 500 block of Fireside Drive.
A unit from the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives digs through the rubble of the wreckage at the Boardwalk Apartment complex.
Yolanda Riddle
Nicole Bingham
Jose Gonzalez.
The K-9 Team of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigates the wreckage at the Boardwalk Apartments. Sunday was the first day that investigations took place at the west Lawrence apartment complex.
A unit from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigates the wreckage at the Boardwalk Apartment complex in the 500 block of Fireside Drive. Sunday was the first day that investigators explored the ruins of the west Lawrence apartment complex.
Relatives of missing resident Jose Gonzalez, from left, Preston Tran, 15 months, his mother, Diana Vega-Tran, a niece of Gonzalez, and Maria Gonzalez, Jose Gonzalez's sister, were hoping Saturday for news of their family member but no searches of the building can be made until it cools down from Friday's intense fire.
An aerial view of the smoldering remains of the Boardwalk Apartments at 524 Frontier, looking north.
An tighter view of the aerial shot of the Boardwalk Apartments at 524 Fireside, looking north.
A Lawrence firefighter walks by what remains of an early- morning fire Friday at the Boardwalk Apartments.
The Boardwalk Apartments, 524 Frontier Road, lost about 70 apartments to an overnight fire Friday. A command post sits across the street from the burned out apartment building. Around 6:30 a.m., officials continue to search for residents.
Only some brick facades remain where an early morning fire destroyed several units at Boardwalk Apartments.
An early morning fire Friday left several buildings destroyed and many residents homeless.
An early morning fire Friday left several buildings destroyed and many residents homeless.
A tighter shot of the view facing south of the remains of the Boardwalk Apartments at 524 Fireside.
The view facing south of the remains of the Boardwalk Apartments at 524 Fireside.
Lawrence firefighters examine the scene of the fire at Boardwalk Apartments.
Another angle of the remains of the Boardwalk Apartments at 524 Fireside, facing west.
The Boardwalk apartments in the 500 block of Fireside Drive smolder Friday morning after an overnight fire burned 76 apartments in the complex.
Firefighters take a break after battling a blaze for hours early Friday at the Boardwalk Apartments on Fireside Drive. In front of them is the site of the fire, the cause of which has not been determined, and one of several cars charred by the flames.
An early morning fire Friday left several buildings destroyed and many residents homeless.
Luis Jimenez, Lawrence, watches smoke rise above the burned-out ruins of his home at Boardwalk Apartments.
A fire investigator and a Lawrence firefighter inspect the Boardwalk Apartments.
A man stands above a fence next to the Boardwalk Apartments to take a picture with his cell phone. A part of the apartment complex was leveled after an early morning fire Friday.
Red Cross workers at the American Legion help some people displaced by Friday's fire at the Boardwalk Apartments in the 500 block of Fireside Drive.
The American Red Cross' Kim High helps a victim of the fire at the Boardwalk Apartments.The relief organization set up a center at the American Legion Hall. The morning blaze destroyed a 76-unit apartment building at the complex.
Christopher Collins sits at a table at the American Legion early Friday. Collins lived on the third floor of the Boardwalk Apartments, 524 Fireside, before the apartment was ravaged by a fire Friday.
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