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An early morning fire Friday at Boardwalk Apartments, 524 Frontier Road, left several buildings destroyed and many residents homeless. Area fire departments from Lenexa and Olathe as well as emergency medical units from Johnson County came to Lawrence to assist.

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Lawrence firefighters work to put out a blaze Friday morning at the Boardwalk Apartments, 524 Frontier Road. The fire left several buildings destroyed and many residents homeless.

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Lawrence firefighters work to put out a blaze Friday morning at the Boardwalk Apartments, 524 Frontier Road.

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Lawrence firefighters work to put out a major fire at the Boardwalk Apartments, 524 Frontier Road, on October 7, 2005.

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Chris Collins, a resident of Boardwalk Apartments, in the 500 block of Fireside Drive, realizes he has lost his home and possessions to a large fire that destroyed several units at the complex.

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Residents of Boardwalk Apartments, 524 Frontier Road, watch as a large section of the complex burns early Friday morning. The fire left several buildings destroyed and many residents homeless.

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Firefighters respond to an early-morning fire at Boardwalk Apartments. The fire left 76 apartments in ruins and many residents homeless.

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Firefighters work an early morning fire Friday at a section of the Boardwalk Apartments, 524 Frontier Road. The fire left several buildings destroyed and many residents homeless.

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Nearby residents and passerbys watch an early morning fire Friday at a section of Boardwalk Apartments, 524 Frontier Road.

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An early morning fire Friday at a section of Boardwalk Apartments, 524 Frontier Road, left several buildings destroyed and many residents homeless.

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An early-morning fire at a section of Boardwalk Apartments left several buildings destroyed and many residents homeless. The Oct. 7 fire killed three people and injured 20, including Leigh McHatton, who has months of recovery ahead of her after suffering third-degree burns.

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Residents of Boardwalk Apartments, 524 Frontier Road, watch as an early morning fire destroys a section of the complex.

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A firefighting crew from Lenexa waits to help Friday in the nearby Dillons parking lot on Sixth Street.

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Additional Lawrence emergency crews and crews from Olathe, Lenexa and Johnson County wait on standby in the parking lot at Dillons on Sixth Street.

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Haskell Indian Nations University students, from left, Joseph Anderson, Zachary Noline and Lumhe Sampson were honored Tuesday along with Adam Washington by the school for actions during the Boardwalk Apartments fire Oct. 7.

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Passers-by watch an early-morning fire Friday at the Boardwalk Apartments, in the 500 block of Fireside Drive.

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