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1-888-MY-GLOBE 1 killed in the warehouse on Dec. now firefighters, inducted into the Worcester department on the same day two years ago. Two others are aspiring firefighters, and two more are training to be police officers. "It's difficult to see them in their uniforms," she said, "but I WORCESTER Continued from Page Al while driving with her mother on an elevated highway overlooking the warehouse. She has since become a co-worker of a niece of one of the victims, Jeremiah Lucey.

"It's emotional for so many of us," she said. In the decade since the blaze, the families of the victims have gone their separate ways. James Lyons, father of Jay Lyons, took up reading poetry and found solace in the dark contours of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson; Denise Brotherton, wife of Paul, has kept busy with college classes and charity work. She donated defibrillators in her husband's memory to local schools, fire departments, and restaurants, because "time is of the essence in saving lives, and I want to give people all the time I can." She is angry some days, she said. She and her husband shared everything; he vacuumed the rugs when she worked 12-hour nursing shifts, and when he finished his shift, she had a hot bath waiting for him.

She said she has tried to teach her six boys that "it's all right to be angry; it's how you channel it that matters." Two Brotherton sons, Michael, 24, and Brian, 23, are Citi never sleeps ajjj bostonglobe.comvacationsuspension A great REACH YOUR HAPPY PLACE 1.30 QUICKER. many other mementos of his son 3, 1999. He said he and his wife, feel fortunate they have six guardian angels watching over them." The blaze that took the lives of the firefighters Brotherton, Lyons, Lucey, Timothy Jackson, Joseph McGuirk, and Thomas Spencer started in a vacant warehouse where homeless people routinely squatted. Two firefighters went in to search for people and didn't return. Teams of firefighters fanned out to search.

And as flames spread, licking layers of sprayed-on foam insulation, black smoke and heat intensified, and four more firefighters lost radio contact inside the win-dowless maze. Determining the cause of the fire took months, followed by heated debate over whether charges should be filed against the homeless, mentally disabled couple who knocked over a candle and fled without reporting the fire. Authorities eventually charged Julie Ann Barnes, a pregnant 19-year-old when the fire was started, and her boyfriend Thomas Levesque with manslaughter. After years of legal wrangling, prosecutors agreed to forgo a trial and let them serve probation. Some of the firefighters' families sued the owner of the warehouse, Framingham developer Tony Kwan, saying he was negligent for failing to keep out squatters.

Kwan ultimately paid four families $250,000 each, using money he received from the city in its eminent domain taking of the warehouse site. He said this week that an inspection days before the fire indicated no concerns about safety. "I pray for the families every day," he said. "Anyone who risks their life to save somebody else is a hero those firefighters are my heroes." Worcester Fire Department District Chief Frank DiLiddo said his department's inspection reports are good only at the time the firefighters leave the premises and it is up to owners to be vigilant. A federal investigation found that disorganization at the scene, including communications glitches and a lack of knowledge of the building's lay New charges in Fort Hood By Angela K.

Brown ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT WORTH, Texas A US Army psychiatrist who may face the death penalty after the mass shooting at Fort Hood was charged yesterday with 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder relating to the scores of soldiers and two civilian police officers injured in the attack, military officials said. Major Nidal Hasan has already been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder after the Nov. 5 shooting in a building at the Texas Army post where soldiers must go before being deployed. Witnesses said he jumped on a desk and shouted, "Allahu akbar," Arabic for "God is great." Army officials said he was armed with two pistols, one a semiautomatic capable of firing up to 20 rounds without reloading. The additional charges were brought less than 24 hours after Hasan's civilian attorney was BILL GREENEGLOBE STAFF Jay, one of the six firefighters Joan, talk of Jay every day.

out and materials, contributed to the devastating outcome, a conclusion disputed by local fire officials, who said investigators did not have all the details. Fire officials vowed to learn from what happened and aggressively retrained the city's forces. Donations enabled upgrades in equipment, and case studies of the fire helped educate departments around the country about how to fight fires in warehouses more safely. For families of the fallen firefighters, their losses have been eased by an outpouring of generosity, beginning with a flood of cash donations for the widows to buy presents for their children that first, bleak Christmas, and building to a multimillion dollar fund. Still, the pain for many is acute.

"We all think about him daily," said William McGuirk, brother of Joseph, the seventh son in a family with deep firefighter roots. "But especially at Thanksgiving time." Robin Gabree, whose older brother Timothy Jackson died in the fire, struggles with anger that she feels for the homeless man who started the fire. Today, she and her sisters will visit the Hopedale Cemetery, as they do each year on the anniversary of the fire, and she will ask her brother to keep an eye on her 23-year-old son, who recently died. James Lyons, a retired public school teacher, and his wife, Joan, a nurse who retired to stay home with their two children, still talk about their son Jay every day. Their living room has photos of him on shelves, on the mantle, on tables.

On the night of the fire, they waited and waited outside the warehouse in what they recall as "quiet emptiness." Even after their son's body had been recovered, they hovered at a church near the warehouse, waiting with the other families until the last body had been recovered. These days, from time to time, the Lyonses visit the new fire station. "We have a feeling of closeness with Jay when we're there," James Lyons said. are brought shootings notified that the Army plans to evaluate Hasan to test his competency to stand trial, as well as his mental state at the time of the shooting. John Galligan, Hasan's attorney, told the Associated Press yesterday that Army officials had not returned his calls, so he did not know when or where the "mental responsibility" exam would take place.

Galligan said he had filed an objection to the evaluation, pointing out that Hasan was still in intensive care at a San Antonio military hospital recovering from gunshot wounds that left him paralyzed. The results of the mental evaluation could prevent Hasan from being sent to death row or even being tried, although that is unlikely, specialists say. The evaluation usually takes several days and involves psychological testing and interviews by the board, said Richard Stevens, a lawyer who specializes in defending military cases. rate. A smart investment helps secure your savings.

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