Witnesses have told how the Islamic terrorists stormed the roof, firing at gas cylinders in a bid to cause maximum casualties.
What is certain is that the occupant was absent early on Saturday when two Israeli drones "knocked on his roof" – firing warning shots to encourage civilians to vacate the building prior to a strike.
For the next two years, the snipers remained stationed on the roof, "firing on sick and wounded persons attempting to approach the hospital entrance," according to the U.N. commission.
As the soldiers approached the door, the gunners on the roof fired at the distant house's lighted window.
Roof's lawyers tried to stop him from being his own lawyer, saying he was a high-school dropout and that they feared Roof fired them because he was afraid the attorneys would present evidence that would embarrass him and his family when trying to save his life.
After the phone conversation with News 12, Mr. Fenrich met with police officers who came to his home after being alerted by the station, then bolted onto his roof, fired guns in the air, begged officers to shoot him and eight hours later, shot himself to death.
During the fight last weekend, men pulled mortars onto the roofs, fired a couple of rounds, then pulled back inside.
Christopher Tempro, supervising fire marshal for the New York Fire Department, said that according to department statistics, there was an average of 35 roof fires a year from 1994 to 1998.
The five-alarm fire started in the gift shop in the cathedral's north transept but was contained before it could spread to the main sanctuary or into the woodwork of the roof, Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen said.
The four-alarm fire started at 3 47 a.m. on the second floor of the six-story brick building, sweeping through the upper floors and onto the roof, fire officials said.
The roof: Fire drills a deux tend to be popular, with the happy couple tripping furtively up the fire escape to the relative privacy of the roof (flat roofs are safer but the more adventurous will swear by the sloping variety).
