Tragedy struck a 9/11 family for a second time when the daughter of one of the hijacked pilots was killed in a suspicious blaze in New Jersey yesterday.
Wendy Burlingame, 32, and her two dogs died when flames ripped through her 10th-floor apartment in Guttenberg, Hudson County.
Burlingame was the daughter of American Airlines pilot Charles (Chick) Burlingame, whose plane crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
"It's just an extreme tragedy," said Tim Sumner, who knew Wendy Burlingame from the 9/11 Families survivor group. "It's an amazing blow to that family."
Wendy Burlingame's aunt, Debra Burlingame, a member of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation board, was too heartbroken to speak last night.
UPDATE 8:55 am: More information here, here, and here.
2 comments:
I had the privilege of hearing Debra Burlingame speak at one of the screenings for OBSESSION in New York. She is an articulate and strong woman who has the guts to tell it like it is.
My prayers are with her and her family.
I knew Wendy and feel just awful about this tragic loss. It is disconcerting and unsettling that it is being ruled suspicious.
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