Afterburn: Coatesville Struggles to Emerge From the Ashes

Mark Stehle
Philadelphia City Paper | January 19, 2010
For most people, seeing the house in which they'd lived for the past 28 years burned to the ground would be an unimaginable nightmare. For Karen Engle, it was a blessing in disguise. By the time arson reduced her home to rubble, her neighborhood had become a hotbed of violence.

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