Very telling comment from the article.
On 60 minutes right now.
Police Charge Hotel Fire Deaths to 16-Year-Old Boy
AT LEASE 28 DIED.
By BILL ROBERTS
Associated Press Writer
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Juvenile Court petitions alleging felony homicide and arson were filed today against a 16-year-old youth in a $2.5 million fire which killed 28 persons and injured 27 in a downtown hotel Sunday.
The youth was taken into custody near the scene of the early morning blaze, and questioned by police.
The petition identified him as Louis C. Taylor, four-time parolee from the State Industrial School for Boys.
Patrolman Claus Burgman said he arrested Taylor because he “was acting suspiciously and couldn’t explain his presence in the building.” Later, Burgman said Taylor “told us a number of different stories about the fire. He said he was at the scene and saw the fire start, but claims he saw another boy do it.”
Several survivors of the flames which raced through the upper half of the 12-story Pioneer International Hotel said they had smelled a volatile substance in the corridors.
The fire in the 41-year-old building broke out on the sixth floor and flared through hallways and staircases, penning about 60 persons in their rooms with no way out except through the windows.
One woman plunged to her death from the seventh floor.
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