Survivor Of 1941 Inferno Looks To Honor Friends

March 10, 2007 Massachusetts - Sixty-six years ago, Edward Sonny Burrell was a gung-ho 26- year-old who cheated death in a Brockton theater blaze that ranks second only to the Sept. 11 attacks as the single deadliest day for firefighters in American history. The 92-year-old retired Brockton fire chief is the last surviving member of the department that battled the March 10, 1941, Strand Theater inferno that killed 13 firefighters. He's now hoping he'll live to see a long-overdue memorial. "I'd like ...