LaCarter Wade was a 3-year-old Black boy from Birmingham, Alabama, whose life ended after a predawn house fire tore through a home on 8th Avenue in the Wylam community. The first calls for help came in around the 4:30–4:40 a.m. window, with neighbors reporting the blaze as it spread fast enough to leave little time for anyone inside to get their bearings. Firefighters rushed in, pulling victims from the smoke and heat as the structure burned.
In the frantic first rescue, responders bro
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