The bar may have been closed but what of the residences above.
>>They said on the 11 o'clock news that someone who lived above it had been thrown out of a second story window. Not sure if that's true
From an article linked to Drudge (I also mentioned in a post above this):
>>They climbed down a fire escape from the apartment where Ratajski lived over the bar and only later saw the fire on television.