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by Sam Porcello<\/strong><\/p>\n Miss earlier volumes? Click here…<\/a><\/p>\n Aetna Ambulance employee and Hartford Circus Fire survivor Robert John Titus wrote to me that:<\/p>\n \u201cMy most poignant memory was that there was no fire engine responder on standby.\u00a0 My second most poignant memory was that some people used jack knifes to make their own exits\u2026I remember sitting and looking at the tent starting to burn and then coming down\u2026people panicking, running and screaming, stepping over people to get out using the exits of which there were\u00a0 only 3.\u00a0 I remember Emmett Kelly the clown along with the Flying Wallendas helping people to get out.\u201d<\/p>\n I started my research by attending a July 6,\u00a02012 service at Hartford\u2019s Circus Fire Memorial honoring the 68th<\/sup> anniversary of the fire.\u00a0 There, I learned about the fire from memorial plaques and interviewed a survivor.\u00a0 As I dug into newspaper articles, microfiche, secondary books, ordinances and the Circus Fire archive at the Connecticut State Library, I found many changes in local, state and National laws that were created as a result of the fire.\u00a0 Something else also caught my eye – I noticed a single article from the Hartford Courant written about 20 years ago that discussed Aetna Ambulance\u2019s history.<\/p>\n Check back for future volumes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Sam Porcello Miss earlier volumes? Click here… Aetna Ambulance employee and Hartford Circus Fire survivor Robert John Titus wrote to me that: \u201cMy most poignant memory was that there was no fire engine responder on standby.\u00a0 My second most … Continue reading