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People started to jump out of the windows instead of suffocating or burning to death, so that their families would be able to identify them.
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More and more people are dying and burning to death and screaming, people are escaping down the stairs and elevators
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People are escaping from the 10th floor of the building to the roof, to wait for people to come rescue them.
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Cutters finished their work for the day
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Someone threw a lit cigarette into the trash can and ignited a fire
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The 8th floor fire alarm was pulled
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People were trying to escape, and Cutter Louis Brown forced the door open and saved them
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Onlookers saw many dreadful sights and a young man helped a young woman step onto the windowsill, and held her away from the fire, and then he dropped her
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people started to crash down from the floor they were on, to the one below, where they died, as the building started to break down.
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Firefighters brought the blaze under control. 1 hour later, Chief Croker found that the Asch Building had no damage done to its strucure, it was fireproof.