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September 29, 2006

Station Fire: 'We suffer every day'

Jessica Garvey remembers waiting for a week in a hotel to determine if her sister Dina A. DeMaio, somebody who had "more friends than I could ever list," survived the Station fire.

"We all suffer with the pain of Dina's loss every day," she said. "Our pain only began on Feb. 20, 2003."

She remembered feeling guilty when there was some question whether a "Jane Doe" survivor in the hospital was Dina. She hoped it wasn't. She knew her sister wouldn't want to survive with such severe wounds.

It wasn't Dina.

Dina was so badly burned the family had a closed casket at her wake.

"I never really got to say goodbye to her, only to a box," Garvey said.

Posted by Mike McDermott  at 11:26 AM | Permalink

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