![]() The building was unprepared for a fire despite recently passing a fire department safety inspection, according to a report published by the Illinois Fire Service Institute Library. ![]() "I could have been at home and avoided all of this if I would have just listened to my mother," Laskowski said. "She wanted to go shopping to get some slacks because it was cold outside. "My mother didn't want me to go to school that day, but I was the kind of kid that wanted to go to school," Laskowski said. According to The Chicago Tribune, three nuns and 92 of the 1,600 students enrolled at the school died due to the fire. 1, 1958, when Laskowski was 9 years old, a fire broke out in the basement of Our Lady of the Angels, a Catholic school in Chicago. ![]() I just remember thinking, 'Why me Lord, why me?'" "Things happen for a reason, and there's a reason and a purpose for everybody's life. "You never really forget," Laskowski said. ![]() But Dina Laskowski of Jamestown is swarmed with a different set of emotions when November ends Laskowski uses the holiday season to "take time to remember the people who lost their lives." As December approaches, many make the transition from Thanksgiving dinners and Black Friday shopping to preparing for the Christmas holiday. ![]()
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