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ctpost.com Businesses  « Back to Article  A vacation in paradise
turns into fiery hell  Daniel Tepfer, Connecticut Post Updated
1:03 pm, Friday, December 30, 2011     • PUERTO RICO - JANUARY
01:  Survivors Joan and John Benevento, who injured his feet
jumping through casino window, and Chandra, 10, and Brandon, 7,
of Woodbridge, Conn., are together in hotel room after four
hours of serparation during blaze that killed 95 at the Dupont
Plaza Hotel..  (Photo by Misha Erwitt/NY Daily News Archive via
Getty Images) Photo: New York Daily News Archive, NY Daily News
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Smaller Email This  More Information  Twenty-five years ago
while on vacation on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques,
reporter Dan Tepfer was tracked down and summoned by his Post
editors in Connecticut to cover the tragic fire at the DuPont
Plaza hotel. Today, Tepfer tracks down the state residents who
survived that blaze and how i