Hundreds of people from all over the country participated in the 4th annual Charleston Memorial Stair Climb, which honors the first responders who have died while in the line of duty.
By Melissa Rademaker, Caroline Spikes and Patrick Phillips
For the first time in the 17 years since the fire in West Ashley killed nine Charleston firefighters, a remembrance service to honor them will be held at a fully-finished memorial site.
Fire personnel, community members and families plan to honor the lives lost 17 years ago when nine firefighters died while fighting a furniture store fire in 2007.
As acts of antisemitism increase across the country, state and community leaders gathered at Mother Emanuel AME Church to make the extra push to senators to pass the Clementa C. Pinckney Hate Crimes Act.
The town of Mount Pleasant revealed the results of a survey conducted to determine what people want their government to focus on over the next few years after months of public hearings.
Community members in Charleston are set to gather this weekend to remember nine city firefighters who died during a large fire at a furniture store in West Ashley in 2007.
June 18, 2007, is a day firefighters in Charleston will never forget. That’s when nine of their colleagues were killed while fighting a fire at the former Sofa Super Store.
On the 15th anniversary of the Sofa Super Store fire that killed nine Charleston firefighters, people from around the country came to North Charleston to honor first responders who have perished in the line of duty.
The story of Louis Mulkey is one of service and sacrifice. A captain with the Charleston Fire Department, Mulkey was killed in the 2007 Sofa Superstore Fire that claimed the lives of eight other firefighters.
The city of Charleston honored the nine firefighters who died 14 years ago Friday battling a West Ashley furniture store fire. The nine city firefighters died on the evening of June 18, 2007, while they fought a fire at the Sofa Super Store on Savannah Highway.
The Charleston Fire Department will hold a scaled back remembrance ceremony honoring the Charleston 9, nine city firefighters who died battling a furniture store fire.
The Charleston Fire Department’s newest fire station, being built next to the site of a deadly fire that killed nine city firefighters, is almost finished.
The Charleston Fire Department held the annual remembrance ceremony for the Charleston 9. Thirteen years ago, the nine firefighters died while battling a fire at a West Ashley furniture store.
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic is forcing changes to the annual remembrance of nine Charleston firefighters who died battling a furniture store fire.
A downtown Charleston street will be dedicated to one of the nine firefighters killed in the 2007 Sofa Super Store fire, but the dedication ceremony has been postponed.
Charleston city firefighters began a 24-hour watch at Charleston 9 Memorial Park ahead of a nighttime ceremony to remember the firefighters lost 12 years ago Tuesday.
As the Holy City prepares to remember the nine firefighters lost 12 years ago battling a furniture store fire, work continues on a new fire station that will stand next to the site of the tragedy.
James "Earl" Drayton was the oldest firefighter killed the day of the Sofa Super Store fire. The 56-year-old was a 32-year veteran, on his third retirement.
Soft- spoken and loving. A gentle giant. Those are the words Heather Baity uses to describe her husband, Brad Baity, who died in the Super Sofa Store fire in 2007.
On the night of the Sofa Super Store fire, Haley Hutchinson, who was visiting her grandparents in Connecticut, thought about calling her dad, Charleston Fire Capt. Billy Hutchinson, but since she'd be back in Charleston the next day she decided against it. She says it is a decision she has regretted ever since.
Paul Kelsey still keeps one of his father's firefighting helmets in the garage. Ten years after the Sofa Super Store fire, Capt. Mark Kelsey's gear remains unwashed.
Charleston Fire Department officials told reporters Tuesday significant improvements have been made since a deadly fire claimed nine city firefighters almost a decade ago.
A special ceremony honoring the firefighters who died battling a furniture store fire in 2007 is being held on the ninth anniversary of the tragedy at the approximate time the fire began.
As the Charleston church community mourned the deaths of nine people gunned down during a bible study, a ceremony in West Ashley solemnly marked the eighth anniversary of the fire that claimed nine city firefighters.
