60th Anniversary of Our Lady of the Angels Fire-- Part 6: Other Suffering

In the early 1960s, a boy who was ten years old and in fifth grade at the time of the fire confessed to starting the fire, a confession that he later recanted.  He did, however, know details of the fire's origin that had not been made public and that he should not have known.  He was not ever prosecuted.

Those that died that day were not the only ones to suffer.  Many of the students were severely burned and spent months in the hospital healing and even several years later were still undergoing skin grafts.  Others had nightmares and others required counseling to overcome the emotional problems they had to deal with.