article_snippet.sent: Diane McLean, 58, and Diane McLean three children lost 'everything but her three children lives' when fire destroyed her three children apartment last week .
article_snippet.sent: Three buildings on a crowded block in the East Village were utterly destroyed in the explosion and subsequent fire last week .
article_snippet.sent: Perhaps the biggest loss, though, was the apartment itself.
highlights_snippet.sent: Diane McLean's four-bedroom rent-stabilized apartment was destroyed in the explosion last week .
  