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Firefighters emerge from under a rainbow created as crews try to extinguish an arson fire in the historic Ritz Theater district of LaVilla.

Sandra Adams expresses concern for her rooming house neighbor's condition after he suffered respiratory distress as a result of his AIDS virus infection.

James Whitfield and Charles Fowler are led away in handcuffs after being caught using a sledgehammer to break up the street to get at the copper pipes below.

A customer enters Barron's Grocery, one of the last remaining businesses in LaVilla.

Personal possessions are loaded into a pickup truck as a house in LaVilla is vacated prior to demolition.

Priscella Brown serves customers in Brown's Café. The family run business has been in the community for 59 years.

Screwface, who manages a rooming house in LaVilla, sweeps the spartan TV room of the building.

Clara and Paul Williams pass the time in their small boarding house room which they rent by the week.

Rescue personnel prepare to aid Michael Maxwell, still healing from a shooting the week before, after he was found unconscious beside an abandoned rooming house.

Police officers look through an abandoned house in LaVilla. Like other homes in the neighborhood, it was stripped of anything of value within a short time after being vacated.