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&quot;Thank God you lived,&quot; said Dianne Thompson, seen here embracing York city firefighter Erik Swanson, right, during his first visit back to the scene where he survived a building collapse in York, Pa., that took the lives of fellow firefighters Ivan Flanscha and Zachary Anthony. (Jason Plotkin/York Daily Record via AP)

As surviving firefighters heal, one asks ‘Why them, not me?’

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Firefighters work the scene of a fire that started Wednesday in York, Pa., Thursday, March 22, 2018. York officials said part of the four-story building fell on firefighters as they were looking for hot spots and investigating the cause of the fire that broke out Wednesday at the Weaver Organ and Piano factory. (John A. Pavoncello/York Dispatch via AP)

2 firefighters who died on duty memorialized; state mourns

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