Mourning bunting – black and purple – was draped across the red brick firehouse at Elmwood Avenue and Virginia Street.
City flags were flown at half-staff, and landmarks from the Peace Bridge to Niagara Falls were to be lit up in red.
Hot spots still smoldered amid the ruins of 745 Main St., more than 24 hours after a Buffalo firefighter lost his life in a 4-alarm inferno.
On Thursday, Buffalo learned his name: Jason Daniel Arno.
Arno was 37. He was married to a nurse at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. He had a young daughter. He joined the Buffalo Fire Department three years ago.
A 37-year-old Buffalo firefighter died while fighting a four-alarm blaze on Main Street downtown that may have been sparked by work being done on the structure with blowtorches and appeared to cause a phenomenon known as a backdraft.
As investigations into the cause of the fire, the response to the incident and the death of the firefighter were initiated, a city mourned.
Buffalo Mayor…
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