When firefighters pulled Safyre Terry's father from the ashes, she was underneath him — buried in his arms and still alive. It was an early May morning in 2013 when, investigators said, an arsonist set fire to the family's apartment stairwell in Schenectady, NY, not far from Albany. Safyre, then five, lost her father, her younger sister and two younger brothers in the blaze. Safyre was severely burned over the majority of her body. She lost the skin on her face, the toes on her left foot, her entire right hand and, later, the rest of her left foot, her aunt said. "Doctors were just making her comfortable until she passed away," her...
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