On this day, Sept. 4, in 1982, a teenager set fire to an apartment building in Los Angeles in a dispute with his uncle, killing 25 people including a pregnant woman and her unborn baby.

The Dorothy Mae Hotel building on Sunset Boulevard was informally known as “Little Salitre” because nearly all its 200 residents came from the Mexican village of El Salitre.

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