In the early hours of a Wednesday morning in March 2011, a devastating fire tore through a home on Detroit's east side, claiming the lives of 8-year-old Alaya Cook and her 10-year-old sister, Lataya. The girls, who were third and fourth graders at a local elementary school, were trapped on the second floor of the house on Rolfs Place. Their father, Dante Cook, managed to escape the blaze by jumping from a second-floor window. He has stated that he tried to persuade his daughters to follow him to
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