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The Bronx Is Burning: Inside the Decade of Fire

Name: The Bronx Is Burning: Inside the Decade of Fire
Uploaded: 2025-06-21T21:00:17+00:00
Duration: 75 min 37 s
Channel: Best Documentary
Description: As a kid in the South Bronx in the 1970s, Vivian Vazquez watched her tight-knit community become a burned-out ruin as an epidemic of fires raged through he

Best Documentary · Jun 21, 2025 · published to YouTube

As a kid in the South Bronx in the 1970s, Vivian Vazquez watched her tight-knit community become a burned-out ruin as an epidemic of fires raged through her Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood. As Vivian seeks to understand the lasting effects of this tragedy on her family and community, she uncovers a story of injustice, survival and hope that resonates deeply in cities today. Original title: the Decade of Fire Directors: GRETCHEN HILDEBRAN, VIVIAN VAZQUEZ

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