CLAIRTON, PA — Richard Lattanzi started his morning getting ready to take his father to his doctor’s appointment at Jefferson Hospital on Coal Valley Road in nearby Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania.
Within hours, the hospital would receive trauma victims from a series of explosions at the U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works. The former steelworker and mayor of Clairton for the past sixteen years would stand in front of the plant, comforting members of the community and waiting for word on how many men had lost their lives that day.
Lattanzi proudly said that Clairton has been his home his entire life, a statement everyone who lives here through good times and bad will repeat without pause. This is their home and this is their community, where they
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