Fire - 01-04-2010 - photo by Will Yurman

Monday evening a fire destroyed a building on Main Street in Brockport. It was home to six women who are students at the State University of New York at Brockport, officials at the scene said. When I first got to the fire I concentrated on the building itself. Flames were still visible shooting out of the roof. But while not officially under control, the firefighters clearly had the fire contained. As I walked around the scene, with only the hint of daylight left in the sky, and the snow falling, I saw some of the fire fighters watching the fire. It was a strangely quiet and beautiful kind of moment in what was otherwise a messy, noisy, tragic place.

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