article_snippet.sent: but I just think it was a tragedy that cost the lives of 56 people and injured many more, and has scarred Bradford City's for many years.'
article_snippet.sent: The new claims are contained in the book 'Fifty-Six - The Story of the fire by Martin Fletcher, who was 12 at the time and escaped with his life from the blaze but lost three generations of his family including his father and brother.
article_snippet.sent: Fletcher's 11-year-old brother was the fire's youngest victim while Fletcher's 11-year-old brother father John, 34, uncle Peter, 32, and grandfather Eddie, 63, also died.
article_snippet.sent: The disaster occurred at a time, according to Fletcher's evidence, when Fletcher's 11-year-old brother was in desperate financial trouble - and two days after Fletcher's 11-year-old brother discovered it wo uld cost £2million to bring the ground up to safety standards required by Bradford's promotion from the old Third Division.