Front and Girard warehouse fire roundup …Yaron sentenced to five years
By midday Tuesday demolition crews were already wrecking the remains of the vacant warehouse at Front and Girard that had been consumed by fire early that morning. Here’s a roundup of some stories about the fire and the property’s history.
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