American History

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According to a May 2, 1999 article in the Des Moines Register, Tiare Jones was living in a half way home working on regaining custody of her three youngest children.

"Tiare Jones, then 2, escaped serious injury. this time, she said, she is determined to succeed. As a condition of regaining custody of three of her children that were taken by the Department of Social Services, she is liv ing in the halfway house in suburban Boston. She already has ..."

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/131094425/

I haven't been able to find anything on her since that article was published.

Robert O'Neil, the fire fighter on the ladder, died in 2005.

"Few who saw the images can forget them. It was 1975. Fire was raging through an apartment building on Marlborough Street in the Back Bay. A firefighter stood on a fire escape shielding 19-year-old Diana Bryant and her 2-year-old goddaughter Tiare Jones from the flames. Smoke billowed as a fire engine lifted an aerial ladder to the trio. Just as the ladder neared arm's length, the fire escape collapsed.

The girl and woman fell. Bryant died, Jones was seriously injured. Boston Herald photographer Stanley Forman captured it all on film in a series of award-winning photographs, including one that earned a Pulitzer Prize.

Robert O'Neill, the Boston firefighter who managed to reach the ladder and escape, died of esophageal cancer Monday in South Shore Hospital in Weymouth. The Braintree resident was 84."

http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/01/27/robert_oneill_firefighter_at_center_of_rescue_attempt/