Through The Fire

Through The FireA frigid 10 degrees on February 21st 1964 to most Chicagoans was nothing more than a typical brutal winter night. But in a particular West Side neighborhood that night will always be remembered as the time when a cataclysmic event occured that changed a familys live forever. Eerie darkness and ferocious weather conditions had this buzzing city devoid of any movement. The faint wind that traveled through the air was the only sound to permeate the silence of the 41st block of Gladys Avenue. On the same street tucked away inside a bungalow resided a highly decorated Chicago detective and his family. Everyone inside of this loving home was in a peaceful sea of dreams when suddenly a woman screamed Fire! Her bone-chilling voice echoed through the room snapping the detective right out of a sound sleep.