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Ex- fire fighter claims the deaths of the 21 students could have been prevented

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Victor Navarro sits at home in Alton today, reminiscing about his days as a firefighter. September 21st 1989 will forever be engraved in his mind; because he feels emergency crews could have done more to save the lives of the 21 students who drowned to death.

The call came in about 7:20 and I never made it back into the shower. I put on my overalls and got myself to the central station, which is 5 blocks away when he heard a school bus had fallen into a caliche pit, he knew there had to be a way in. Instead, he tells us, emergency crews looked down from up above. I was looking for that one road that should be there and it was there, but nobody had gone down that road. Navarro remembers paramedics trying to resuscitate the students inside the pit. How can you give CPR to a victim in water? They don

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