Firefighters tried to rescue an urn from a burned out building
Firefighters tried, but could not retreive the ashes of 22-year-old Kyle Aldrich.
After a three-alarm fire at Robert Aldrich’s New Bedford apartment Wednesday rendered the building unsafe, crews demolished the structure Thursday. But before they did, firefighters tried to rescue an urn containing the ashes of Aldrich’s 22 year-old son, reported The Standard Times.
Aldrich told firefighters his son Kyle’s ashes sat in a metal urn in the kitchen on the third-floor apartment he shared with his wife and 9 year-old son. According to a previous Times article, Kyle died Oct. 2 of multiple strokes.
Firefighters tried to honor the dad’s request and retrieve the urn from a bureau in the kitchen, but had to turn back when the weak floors posed a hazard, New Bedford Fire Chief Michael Gomes told the Times.
“They couldn’t go any further than the living room,’’ Aldrich told the Times, adding the chances of finding the urn now that the building has been knocked down are “not too good.’’
Read the full story in the Times.
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