Gainey

The fire occurs on the morning after Thanksgiving night. Monique has dropped her beloved four year old Andre off at his grandmother’s house to sleep for the evening with his other cousins and his father who lives there in a room in the basement where he keeps guns and fucks strangers. At midnight Andre’s father goes out with friends. A high tech portable space heater sits on top of a washing machine in the basement and ignites some fabric there. The fire is fed by the air that is drawn into the house through an opened garage door opened next to the illegal basement bedroom, and the home is promptly engulfed in flame and smoke. Six people jump from second floor windows because the smoke and heat coming up the stairwell is too intense. Two are injured. An infant is thrown from the second floor and survives without a scratch. Andre and his ten year old cousin, asleep in the living room on the first floor, are asphyxiated and die.

Monique learns of the fire when awaked by a phone call from friends and rushes to the scene