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$6 million settlement reached in Immokalee trailer fire that killed 5

Five people were killed and five people were injured in an early morning fire that broke out in this trailer at Cleve’s Trailer Park on Second Avenue in Immokalee in March.

Photo by MICHEL FORTIER, Daily News file photo

Five people were killed and five people were injured in an early morning fire that broke out in this trailer at Cleve’s Trailer Park on Second Avenue in Immokalee in March.

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  • Attorney Douglas McCarron talks about how his client Bonifacio Carrillo tried to pound out wire mesh covering the windows of an Immokalee trailer that was set on fire last March. Carrillo was one of the survivors of the fire, but his girlfriend, Pascuala Mendez de Vasquez, pictured at left, his son, Rodrigo, 6, and Pacuala's daughter Luciana Vasquez, 13, pictured second from left, were among five who died. McCarron and attorney Steven Meyer held a press conference Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007 announcing that the victims received a $6 million settlement from the owners of Cleve's Trailer Park.
  • Attorney Steven Meyer, center, attorney Douglas McCarron, left, and paralegal and farmworker advocate, Glora Hernandez, field questions Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007 at a press conference where they announced that the victims of an arson fire of an Immokalee trailer will receive a $6 million settlement from the owners of Cleve's Trailer Park.
  • Five people were killed and five people were injured in an early morning fire that broke out in this trailer at Cleve’s Trailer Park on Second Avenue in Immokalee in March.
  • Rebecca Ramirez and other members of the Immokalee community held a candlelight vigil in March in front of the trailer where five people died.

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