The caskets of Sise and Harouna Soumare are placed in a hearse from the funeral home to make their way to the funeral service in the Bronx Borough of New York, Monday, March 12, 2007 in New York. The long ritual of grief continued for the families who lost 10 relatives to a deadly Bronx fire.
Mamadou Soumare, left, who lost his entire immediate family in last Wednesday's Bronx apartment fire that killed 10, is comforted as he leaves a funeral service for the victims at the Islamic Cultural Center, Monday, March 12, 2007 in the Bronx borough of New York.
The funeral procession for the Magassa and Soumare families makes its way up 1st Ave. in the Bronx Borough of New York, Monday, March 12, 2007. The long ritual of grief continued for the families who lost 10 relatives to a deadly Bronx fire.
A fire department vehicle sits at the scene of a three-alarm blaze that claimed the lives of nine people, including eight children, in an apartment building Thursday, March 8, 2007 in the Bronx borough of New York. The fire started just after 11 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7 and was brought under control around 1 a.m.
Police officers confer at the scene of a three-alarm blaze that claimed the lives of nine people, including eight children, in an apartment building Thursday, March 8, 2007, in the Bronx borough of New York. The fire started just after 11 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7 and was brought under control around 1 a.m.
Charred wreckage sits piled at the scene of a three-alarm blaze that claimed the lives of nine people, including eight children, in an apartment building Thursday, March 8, 2007, in the Bronx borough of New York.
Firefighters listen to instructions from their Deputy Chief before re-entering the burnt out shell of a building in the Bronx borough of New York, Thursday, March 8, 2007. An early morning blaze which destroyed the brick building's interior killed nine people, eight of them children.
Firefighters work at the scene of a blaze that claimed the lives of nine people, including eight children, in a thee-story apartment building Thursday, March 8, 2007 in the Bronx borough of New York. An extended family trapped in the burning Bronx row house screamed for help in the night, and one woman tossed children from a second-floor window to try to save them.
A man believed to be a distraught family member speaks to a police officer at the scene of a three-alarm blaze Thursday, March 8, 2007 in the Bronx borough of New York. A devastating fire swept through a three-story brick house, killing eight children and an adult and leaving several others seriously injured.
Neighbor Ramona Rodriguez, 72, observes the destruction at the scene of a blaze Thursday, March 8, 2007 in the Bronx borough of New York. A devastating fire swept through a three-story brick home, killing eight children and an adult and leaving several others seriously injured in one of the city's deadliest blazes in recent years, authorities said.
Wanda Jackson, left, parent coordinator at New York Public School 73, weeps as she looks on with the school's principal Mary Simone, center, and student Antwanasia Harris, 11, at the scene of a blaze that claimed the lives of nine people, including eight children, in a three-story apartment building Thursday, March 8, 2007 in the Bronx borough of New York. Some of the children killed were reportedly students at P.S. 73.
Students of New York's P.S. 73, Antwanasia Harris, 11, left, and Noah Morris, 10, take in the destruction at the scene of a three-alarm blaze Thursday, March 8, 2007 in the Bronx borough of New York. A devastating fire swept through a three-story brick house, killing eight children and an adult and leaving several others seriously injured. Some of the children killed were reportedly students at P.S. 73.
People believed to be distraught family members arrive at the scene of a three-alarm blaze Thursday, March 8, 2007, in the Bronx borough of New York. A devastating fire swept through a three-story brick house, killing eight children and an adult and leaving several others seriously injured in one of the city's deadliest blazes in years, authorities said.
Police and fire officials confer at the scene of a three-alarm blaze Thursday, March 8, 2007 in the Bronx borough of New York. A devastating fire swept through a three-story brick house, killing eight children and an adult and leaving several others seriously injured in one of the city's deadliest blazes in years, authorities said.
Firefighters work to extinguish the fire in a three-story home in the Bronx, New York early Thursday March 8, 2007. Eight children and an adult died and several others were injured in the devastating fire. Authorities called it one of New York's deadliest blazes in recent memory. At least 10 people were hurt, six of them seriously injured.